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The rising demand of computing power leads to the installation of a large number of Data Centers (DCs). Their Fault-Ride-Through (FRT) behavior and their unique power characteristics, especially for DCs catered to Artificial Intelligence…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Alberto Jimenez-Ruiz , Federico Milano

Real-time optimal power flow (RT-OPF) under wind energy penetration is highly desired but extremely difficult to realize. This is basically due to the conflict between the fast changes in wind power generation and the slow response from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Erfan Mohagheghi , Aouss Gabash , Pu Li

This paper presents a convex, multi-period, AC-feasible Optimal Power Flow (OPF) framework that robustly dispatches flexible demand-side resources in unbalanced distribution feeders against uncertainty in very-short timescale solar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Nawaf Nazir , Mads Almassalkhi

This paper proposes a linear approximation of the alternating current optimal power flow problem for multiphase distribution networks with voltage-dependent loads connected in both wye and delta configurations. We establish a set of linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Geunyeong Byeon , Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

In recent years, the power system research community has seen an explosion of novel methods for formulating and solving power network optimization problems. These emerging methods range from new power flow approximations, which go beyond…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Carleton Coffrin , Russell Bent , Kaarthik Sundar , Yeesian Ng , Miles Lubin

Distribution networks are increasingly exposed to threats such as extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and cyber risks--resulting in more frequent contingencies and outages, a trend likely to persist. Microgrids, particularly dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Hannah Moring , Bala Kameshwar Poolla , Harsha Nagarajan , Johanna L. Mathieu , Andrey Bernstein , David M. Fobes

In distribution systems, power injection variability due to growing penetrations of distributed energy resources (DERs) and dispatchable loads can lead to power quality issues such as severe voltage unbalance. To ensure the safe operation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Bowen Li , Bai Cui , Feng Qiu , Daniel K. Molzahn

The optimal power flow problem plays an important role in the market clearing and operation of electric power systems. However, with increasing uncertainty from renewable energy operation, the optimal operating point of the system changes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Yeesian Ng , Sidhant Misra , Line A. Roald , Scott Backhaus

Electric power grids regularly experience uncertain fluctuations from load demands and renewables, which poses a risk of violating operational limits designed to safeguard the system. In this paper, we consider the robust AC OPF problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Dongchan Lee , Konstantin Turitsyn , Daniel K. Molzahn , Line A. Roald

Probabilistic power flow (PPF) is essential for quantifying operational uncertainty in modern distribution systems with high penetration of renewable generation and flexible loads. Conventional PPF methods primarily rely on Monte Carlo (MC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Weijie Xia , James Ciyu Qin , Edgar Mauricio Salazar Duque , Hongjin Du , Peter Palensky , Giovanni Sansavini , Pedro P. Vergara

Solving the power flow problem in a distributed fashion empowers different grid operators to compute the overall grid state without having to share grid models-this is a practical problem to which industry does not have off-the-shelf…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Tillmann Mühlpfordt , Xinliang Dai , Alexander Engelmann , Veit Hagenmeyer

We develop DeepOPF as a Deep Neural Network (DNN) approach for solving security-constrained direct current optimal power flow (SC-DCOPF) problems, which are critical for reliable and cost-effective power system operation.DeepOPF is inspired…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Xiang Pan , Tianyu Zhao , Minghua Chen , Shengyu Zhang

Electric power grids are essential components of modern life, delivering reliable power to end-users while adhering to a multitude of engineering constraints and requirements. In grid operations, the Optimal Power Flow problem plays a key…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Mostafa Mohammadian , Anna Van Boven , Kyri Baker

The modern power grid is witnessing a shift in operations from traditional control methods to more advanced operational mechanisms. Due to the nonconvex nature of the Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problem and the need for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Junfei Wang , Pirathayini Srikantha

The increasing global spread of electric vehicles (EVs) has introduced significant interdependence between transportation and power networks. Most of the previous studies on coupled networks focus on the formation of equilibrium states…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Jiaqi Li , Xiaoyuan Xu , Zheng Yan , Han Wang , Yue Chen

Linear approximation commonly used in solving alternating-current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) simplifies the system models but incurs accumulated voltage errors in large power networks. Such errors will make the primal-dual type gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Heng Liang , Xinyang Zhou , Changhong Zhao

Recently, the authors of this paper proposed a method for the Harmonic Power-Flow (HPF) calculus in polyphase grids with widespread deployment of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). The HPF problem was formulated by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-20 Antonio Di Pasquale , Johanna Kristin Maria Becker , Andreas Martin Kettner , Mario Paolone

Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar have received much attention in recent years and large amount of renewable generation is being integrated to the electricity networks. A fundamental challenge in power system operation is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-11 W. A. Bukhsh , C. Zhang , P. Pinson

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between generation dispatch solutions produced by the DC optimal power flow (DC OPF) problem by the AC optimal power flow (AC OPF) problem. While there has been much previous work in analyzing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Kyri Baker

To analyze large sets of grid states, e.g. when evaluating the impact from the uncertainties of the renewable generation with probabilistic Monte Carlo simulation or in stationary time series simulation, large number of power flow…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Zhenqi Wang , Sebastian Wende-von Berg , Martin Braun