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We propose a novel global solution algorithm for the network-constrained unit commitment problem incorporating a nonlinear alternating current model of the transmission network, which is a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Jianfeng Liu , Anya Castillo , Jean-Paul Watson , Carl D. Laird

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Rui Xie , Yue Chen , Pierre Pinson

The Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) problem presents formidable computational challenges due to its combinatorial complexity, large-scale network dimensions, and numerous security constraints. While conventional temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Yingxiao Wang , Yanting Huang , Jianghua Wu , Shunbo Lei , Akang Wang

Time-adaptive unit commitment (UC) has recently been investigated to reduce the scheduling costs by flexibly varying the temporal resolution, which is usually determined by clustering the net load patterns. However, there exists a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-04 Junyi Tao , Ran Li , Salvador Pineda

Maintenance planning plays a key role in power system operations under uncertainty by helping system operators ensure a reliable and secure power grid. This paper studies a short-term condition-based integrated maintenance planning with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Bahar Cennet Okumusoglu , Beste Basciftci , Burak Kocuk

Ensuring reliable operation of large power systems subjected to multiple outages is a challenging task because of the combinatorial nature of the problem. Traditional approaches for security assessment are often limited by their scope…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Reetam Sen Biswas , Anamitra Pal , Trevor Werho , Vijay Vittal

The Unit Commitment (UC) problem is a key optimization task in power systems to forecast the generation schedules of power units over a finite time period by minimizing costs while meeting demand and technical constraints. However, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Matthias Pirlet , Adrien Bolland , Gilles Louppe , Damien Ernst

The unit commitment (UC) problem, which determines operating schedules of generation units to meet demand, is a fundamental task in power systems operation. Existing UC methods using mixed-integer programming are not well-suited to highly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Patrick de Mars

This paper proposes a reformulation of the scenario-based two-stage unit commitment problem under uncertainty that allows finding unit-commitment plans that perform reasonably well both in expectation and for the worst case realization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Ignacio Blanco , Juan M. Morales

We address the problem of maintaining high voltage power transmission networks in security at all time. This requires that power flowing through all lines remain below a certain nominal thermal limit above which lines might melt, break or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-05-08 Benjamin Donnot , Isabelle Guyon , Marc Schoenauer , Antoine Marot , Patrick Panciatici

Two-stage stochastic unit commitment (2S-SUC) problems have been widely adopted to manage the uncertainties introduced by high penetrations of intermittent renewable energy resources. While decomposition-based algorithms such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Zhentong Shao , Jingtao Qin , Nanpeng Yu

With rapid integration of power sources with uncertainty, robustness must be carefully considered in the transmission constrained unit commitment (TCUC) problem. The overall computational complexity of the robust TCUC methods is closely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Xuan Li , Qiaozhu Zhai , Xiaohong Guan

Incorporating the AC power flow equations into unit commitment models has the potential to avoid costly corrective actions required by less accurate power flow approximations. However, research on unit commitment with AC power flow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Robert Parker , Carleton Coffrin

This paper presents a novel approach to handle the computational complexity in security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) with corrective network reconfiguration (CNR) to harness the flexibility in transmission networks. This is achieved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman

Recently increasing penetration of renewable energy generation brings challenges for power system operators to perform efficient power generation daily scheduling, due to the intermittent nature of the renewable generation and discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Yongpei Guan , Kai Pan , Kezhuo Zhou

To enhance the reliability of Integrated Energy Systems (IESs) and address the research gap in reliability-based planning methods, this paper proposes a two-stage robust planning model specifically for park-level IESs. The proposed planning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Zuxun Xiong , Xinwei Shen , Hongbin Sun

In this paper, the Unit Commitment (UC) problem in a power network with low levels of rotational inertia is studied. Frequency-related constraints, namely the limitation on Rate-of-Change-of-Frequency (RoCoF), frequency nadir and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Matthieu Paturet , Uros Markovic , Stefanos Delikaraoglou , Evangelos Vrettos , Petros Aristidou , Gabriela Hug

Power systems Unit Commitment (UC) problem determines the generator commitment schedule and dispatch decisions to realize the reliable and economic operation of power networks. The growing penetration of stochastic renewables and demand…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Xuan He , Yuxin Pan , Yize Chen , Danny H. K. Tsang

Identifying the multiple critical components in power systems whose absence together has severe impact on system performance is a crucial problem for power systems known as (N-x) contingency analysis. However, the inherent combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Mohammad Rasoul Narimani , Hao Huang , Amarachi Umunnakwe , Zeyu Mao , Abhijeet Sahu , Saman Zonouz , Kate Davis

In this work, we have proposed a system theoretic method to compute sensitivities of different lines for $N-k$ contingency analysis in power network. We have formulated the $N-k$ contingency analysis as the stability problem of power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Sambarta Dasgupta , Umesh Vaidya