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The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem often can be formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale instances. In this paper, with projecting unit generation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-08 Linfeng Yang , Chen Zhang , Jinbao Jian , Ke Meng , Zhaoyang Dong

The unit commitment problem (UC) is crucial for the operation and market mechanism of power systems. With the development of modern electricity, the scale of power systems is expanding, and solving the UC problem is also becoming more and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Jiangwei Hou , Qiaozhu Zhai , Yuzhou Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

Decarbonizing the energy supply is essential and urgent to mitigate the increasingly visible climate change. Its basis is identifying emission responsibility during power allocation by the carbon emission flow (CEF) model. However, the main…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Linwei Sang , Yinliang Xu , Hongbin Sun

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

The thermal unit commitment (UC) problem has historically been formulated as a mixed integer quadratic programming (MIQP), which is difficult to solve efficiently, especially for large-scale systems. The tighter characteristic reduces the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Linfeng Yang , Shifei Chen , Zhaoyang Dong

This paper presents a particle-based optimization method designed for addressing minimization problems with equality constraints, particularly in cases where the loss function exhibits non-differentiability or non-convexity. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhua Zhu

Solving problems related to planning and operations of large-scale power systems is challenging on classical computers due to their inherent nature as mixed-integer and nonlinear problems. Quantum computing provides new avenues to approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Willie Aboumrad , Phani R V Marthi , Suman Debnath , Martin Roetteler , Evgeny Epifanovsky

The transmission-constrained unit commitment (TC-UC) problem is one of the most relevant problems solved by independent system operators for the daily operation of power systems. Given its computational complexity, this problem is usually…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales , Asunción Jiménez-Cordero

In this work we solve the day-ahead unit commitment (UC) problem, by formulating it as a Markov decision process (MDP) and finding a low-cost policy for generation scheduling. We present two reinforcement learning algorithms, and devise a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gal Dalal , Shie Mannor

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is solved for power system day-ahead generation scheduling, which is a large-scale mixed-integer linear programming problem and is very computationally intensive. Model reduction of SCUC may bring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li

Maintaining instantaneous balance between electricity supply and demand is critical for reliability and grid instability. System operators achieve this through solving the task of Unit Commitment (UC),ca high dimensional large-scale…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Anna Van Boven , Bri-Mathias Hodge , Kyri Baker

The alternating-current unit commitment problem provides a realistic representation of power system operations, which is a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem and hence is computationally intractable. A common relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yongzheng Dai

The unit commitment problem is an important optimization problem in the energy industry used to compute the most economical operating schedules of power plants. Typically, this problem has to be solved repeatedly with different data but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Nagisa Sugishita , Andreas Grothey , Ken McKinnon

Prior research notes that BERT's computational cost grows quadratically with sequence length thus leading to longer training times, higher GPU memory constraints and carbon emissions. While recent work seeks to address these scalability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yatin Chaudhary , Pankaj Gupta , Khushbu Saxena , Vivek Kulkarni , Thomas Runkler , Hinrich Schütze

This paper presents a carbon-energy coupling management framework for an industrial park, where the carbon flow model accompanying multi-energy flows is adopted to track and suppress carbon emissions on the user side. To deal with the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-21 Dafeng Zhu , Bo Yang , Yu Wu , Haoran Deng , Zhaoyang Dong , Kai Ma , Xinping Guan

Valve-point loading affects the input-output characteristics of generating units, bringing the fuel costs nonlinear and nonsmooth. This has been considered in the solution of load dispatch problems, but not in the planning phase of unit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-22 João Pedro Pedroso , Mikio Kubo , Ana Viana

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems with multilinear interpolations of look-up tables. These problems arise when objective or constraints contain black-box functions only known at…

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

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

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