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It is crucial for maintaining the security of supply that transmission networks continue to operate even if a single line fails. Modeling $\mathcal{N} - 1$ security in power system capacity expansion problems introduces many extra…
Generation and Transmission Expansion Planning (GTEP) problems co-optimize generation and transmission expansion, enabling them to provide better planning decisions than traditional Generation Expansion Planning or Transmission Expansion…
The day-ahead energy and reserve management with transmission restrictions and voltage security limits is a challenging task for large-scale power systems in the presence of real-time variations caused by the uncertain demand and the…
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…
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…
With the increasing share of renewable and distributed generation in electrical distribution systems, Active Network Management (ANM) becomes a valuable option for a distribution system operator to operate his system in a secure and…
Modern network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) bears a heavy computational burden due to the ever-growing model scale. This situation becomes more challenging when detailed operational characteristics, complicated constraints, and…
With the integration of large-scale renewable energy sources to power systems, many optimization methods have been applied to solve the stochastic/uncertain transmission-constrained unit commitment (TCUC) problem. Among all methods,…
Transmission expansion planning (TEP) is critical for the power grid to meet fast growing demand in the future. Traditional TEP model does not utilize the flexibility in the transmission network that is considered as static assets. However,…
A fast and scalable iterative methodology for solving the security-constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) problem is proposed using problem decomposition and the inverse matrix modification lemma. The SCOPF formulation tackles system…
This paper proposes a two-level distributed algorithmic framework for solving the AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem with convergence guarantees. The presence of highly nonconvex constraints in OPF poses significant challenges to…
This work considers the task of finding an AC-feasible operating point of a severely damaged transmission network while ensuring that a maximal amount of active power loads can be delivered. This AC Maximal Load Delivery (AC-MLD) task is a…
We consider the problem of designing (or augmenting) an electric power system at a minimum cost such that it satisfies the N-k-e survivability criterion. This survivability criterion is a generalization of the well-known N-k criterion, and…
This work proposes a novel method for scaling multi-timestep security-constrained optimal power flow in large power grids. The challenge arises from dealing with millions of variables and constraints, including binary variables and…
The accelerated penetration rate of renewable energy sources (RES) brings environmental benefits at the expense of increasing operation cost and undermining the satisfaction of the N-1 security criterion. To address the latter issue, this…
This paper proposes a novel methodology for probabilistic dynamic security assessment and enhancement of power systems that considers load and generation variability, N-2 contingencies, and uncertain cascade propagation caused by uncertain…
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…
The problem of maintaining power system stability and performance after the failure of any single line in a power system (an "N-1 contingency") is investigated. Due to the large number of possible N-1 contingencies for a power network, it…
We revisit a classical problem in transportation, known as the continuous (bilevel) network design problem, CNDP for short. We are given a graph for which the latency of each edge depends on the ratio of the edge flow and the capacity…
Traditionally, power system operations use a static network to deliver power and meet demand optimally. Network topology reconfiguration through transmission switching (TS) has gained significant interest recently to reduce the operational…