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Despite strong connections through shared application areas, research efforts on power market optimization (e.g., unit commitment) and power network optimization (e.g., optimal power flow) remain largely independent. A notable illustration…
The rapid expansion of wind and solar energy leads to an increasing volatility in the electricity generation. Previous studies have shown that storage devices provide an opportunity to balance fluctuations in the power grid. An economical…
As the cornerstone of modern power systems, the Unit Commitment Problem (UC) is critical for ensuring operational security and economic efficiency in the ongoing global energy transition. However, existing UC studies typically propose…
This paper studies the procurement and pricing of inertial response using a frequency-constrained unit commitment formulation, which co-optimizes the provision of energy and inertia services while accounting for their complementary…
The widespread uncertainties have made the interaction between wind power and power grid more complicated and difficult to model and handle. This paper proposes an approach for the solution of unit commitment (UC) problem incorporating…
Federated Learning (FL) is an intriguing distributed machine learning approach due to its privacy-preserving characteristics. To balance the trade-off between energy and execution latency, and thus accommodate different demands and…
Reducing the fuel consumption within a power network is crucial to enhance the overall system efficiency and minimize operating costs. Fuel consumption minimization can be achieved through different optimization techniques where the output…
In this study, an optimization problem is proposed in order to obtain the maximum economic benefit from wind farms with variable and intermittent energy generation in the day ahead and balancing electricity markets. This method, which is…
Development of reliable methods for optimised energy storage and generation is one of the most imminent challenges in moder power systems. In this paper an adaptive approach to load leveling problem using novel dynamic models based on the…
Energy consumption is the major contributor associated with large and growing transportation cost in logistics. Optimal vehicle routing approaches can provide solutions to reduce their operating costs and address implications on energy.…
We consider a problem of nuclear waste contamination. It takes into account the thermal effects. The temperature and the contaminant's concentration fulfill convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The velocity and the pressure in the flow…
The growing uncertainty from renewable power and electricity demand brings significant challenges to unit commitment (UC). While various advanced forecasting and optimization methods have been developed to predict better and address this…
Pumped storage hydro (PSH) plants can improve the flexibility of power systems. A well-designed formulation for a PSH model is essential when incorporating the PSH units into a day-ahead unit commitment model. In the literature, the…
Operation management of nuclear power plants consists of several computationally hard problems. Searching for an in-core fuel loading pattern is among them. The main challenge of this combinatorial optimization problem is the exponential…
Short-term load forecasting is a critical element of power systems energy management systems. In recent years, probabilistic load forecasting (PLF) has gained increased attention for its ability to provide uncertainty information that helps…
The N-1-1 contingency criterion considers the con- secutive loss of two components in a power system, with intervening time for system adjustments. In this paper, we consider the problem of optimizing generation unit commitment (UC) while…
In the electric system, extreme weather events can cause trips or physical damage to transmission lines, leading to large-scale load shedding. To mitigate power shedding, we propose a framework that pre-positions the commitment of…
Technical components are usually well optimized. However, simply combining these optimized components in a technical system does not necessarily lead to optimal systems. Therefore, focusing on a system perspective reveals new potential for…
We consider an interface problem often arising in transport problems: a coupled system of partial differential equations with one (elliptic) transport equation on a bounded domain and one equation (in this case the Laplace problem) on the…
Hydro unit commitment is the problem of maximizing water use efficiency while minimizing start-up costs in the daily operation of multiple hydro plants, subject to constraints on short-term reservoir operation, and long-term goals. A…