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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

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) will decrease the rotational inertia of the power system and further degrade the system frequency stability. To address the above issues, this paper leverages the advanced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Linwei Sang , Yinliang Xu , Zhongkai Yi , Lun Yang , Huan Long , Hongbin Sun

As we replace conventional synchronous generators with renewable energy, the frequency security of power systems is at higher risk. This calls for a more careful consideration of unit commitment (UC) and primary frequency response (PFR)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-25 Bo Zhou , Ruiwei Jiang , Siqian Shen

Optimization models have been broadly used within side the energy industry as useful decision-making systems for scheduling and dispatching electric powered energy resources; this is applied in a system called unit commitment (UC). Unit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Angel Zambrano

Low-order frequency response models for power systems have a decades-long history in optimization and control problems such as unit commitment, economic dispatch, and wide-area control. With a few exceptions, these models are built upon the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-10 Marena Trujillo , Amir Sajadi , Bri-Mathias Hodge

A recent trend in control of power systems has sought to quantify the synchronization dynamics in terms of a global performance metric, compute it under very simplified assumptions, and use it to gain insight on the role of system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Fernando Paganini , Enrique Mallada

Keeping the balance between supply and demand is a fundamental task in power system operational planning practices. This task becomes particularly challenging due to the deepening penetration of renewable energy resources, which induces a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Xinbo Geng , Le Xie

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) model is used for power system day-ahead scheduling. However, current SCUC model uses a static network to deliver power and meet demand optimally. A dynamic network can provide a lower optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman

The high penetration of converter-based renewable energy sources has brought challenges to the power system frequency control. It is essential to consider the frequency security constraints and frequency control reserve requirements in unit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Likai Liu , Zechun Hu

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Fang Zhai , Libao Shi

We consider the problem of minimizing costs in the generation unit commitment problem, a cornerstone in electric power system operations, while enforcing an N-k-e reliability criterion. This reliability criterion is a generalization of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Richard Li-Yang Chen , Neng Fan , Ali Pinar , Jean-Paul Watson

The deepening penetration of renewable energy is challenging how power system operators cope with the associated variability and uncertainty in the unit commitment problem. Given its computational complexity, several optimization-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-26 Mohamed Awadalla , François Bouffard

To address system frequency challenges driven by the integration of renewable generation, advanced control strategies are designed at the device level to provide effective frequency support following disturbances. However, typically relying…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Zhongda Chu , Fei Teng

This paper addresses two vital issues which are barely discussed in the literature on robust unit commitment (RUC): 1) how much the potential operational loss could be if the realization of uncertainty is beyond the prescribed uncertainty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-16 Cheng Wang , Feng Liu , Jianhui Wang , Feng Qiu , Wei Wei , Shengwei Mei , Shunbo Lei

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

The U.S. power grid is undergoing a major paradigm shift with the increased development of renewable generators, electric vehicles, and data centers. In response to this growing need, the U.S. has ramped up the construction of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Rosemary Barrass , Harsha Nagarajan , Mathieu Tanneau , Russell Bent , Pascal Van Hentenryck

To capture the stochastic characteristics of renewable energy generation output, the chance-constrained unit commitment (CCUC) model is widely used. Conventionally, analytical solution for CCUC is usually based on simplified probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Yue Yang , Wenchuan Wu , Bin Wang , Mingjie Li

In low-carbon grids, system flexibility can be enhanced through mechanisms such as Demand Response (DR), enabling the efficient utilization of renewable energy. However, as Synchronous Generators (SGs) are being replaced by renewable energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Peng Wang , Zhengmao Li , Luis Badesa

This letter presents a corrective frequency-constrained UC (C-FCUC) for island power systems implementing analytical constraints on underfrequency load shedding (UFLS). Since UFLS is inevitable for sufficiently large disturbances, one can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-12 Almudena Rouco , Mohammad Rajabdorri , Lukas Sigrist , Enrique Lobato , Ignacio Egido

The shift from synchronous generators to inverter-based resources has caused power system inertia to be unevenly distributed across power grids. As a result, certain grid regions are more vulnerable to high rate-of-change of frequency…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Saurav Dulal , Mohammed M. Olama , Ali R. Ekti , Nils M. Stenvig , Yilu Liu