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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

This paper deals with the impact of linear approximations for the unknown nonconvex confidence region of chance-constrained AC optimal power flow problems. Such approximations are required for the formulation of tractable chance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Lejla Halilbasic , Pierre Pinson , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

The AC Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) problem is a non-convex, NP-hard optimization task essential for secure and economic power system operation. While interior-point methods are widely used due to their computational efficiency, spatial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Ignacio Repiso , Salvador Pineda , Juan Miguel Morales

This is the second part of a two-part paper on data-based distributionally robust stochastic optimal power flow (OPF). The general problem formulation and methodology have been presented in Part I [1]. Here, we present extensive numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Yi Guo , Kyri Baker , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Zechun Hu , Tyler H. Summers

The DC optimal power flow (DCOPF) problem is a fundamental problem in power systems operations and planning. With high penetration of uncertain renewable resources in power systems, DCOPF needs to be solved repeatedly for a large amount of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-22 Ling Zhang , Yize Chen , Baosen Zhang

Since the alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problem was introduced in 1962, developing efficient solution algorithms for the problem has been an active field of research. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-14 Mowen Lu , Harsha Nagarajan , Russell Bent , Sandra D. Eksioglu , Scott J. Mason

Stepwise controllable devices, such as switched capacitors or stepwise controllable loads and generators, transform the nonconvex AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem into a nonconvex mixed-integer (MI) programming problem which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Johannes Heid , Nils Bornhorst , Eric Tönges , Philipp Härtel , Denis Mende , Martin Braun

This paper proposes a convex optimization based distributed algorithm to solve multi-period optimal gas-power flow (OGPF) in coupled energy distribution systems. At the gas distribution system side, the non-convex Weymouth gas flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Cheng Wang , Wei Wei , Jianhui Wang , Linquan Bai , Yile Liang

There is a growing need for new optimization methods to facilitate the reliable and cost-effective operation of power systems with intermittent renewable energy resources. In this paper, we formulate the robust AC optimal power flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Raphael Louca , Eilyan Bitar

The AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem is essential for power system operations, but its non-convex nature makes it challenging to solve. A widely used simplification is the linearized DC optimal power flow (DC-OPF) problem, which can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Salvador Pineda , Juan Pérez-Ruiz , Juan Miguel Morales

AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems need to be solved more frequently in the future to maintain stable and economic power system operation. To tackle this challenge, a deep neural network-based voltage-constrained approach (DeepOPF-V)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Wanjun Huang , Xiang Pan , Minghua Chen , Steven H. Low

An optimization algorithm for a group of nonsmooth nonconvex problems inspired by two-stage stochastic programming problems is proposed. The main challenges for these problems include (1) the problems lack the popular lower-type properties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-01 Jingyi Wang , Cosmin G. Petra

Many optimization problems incorporate uncertainty affecting their parameters and thus their objective functions and constraints. As an example, in chance-constrained optimization the constraints need to be satisfied with a certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Miguel Picallo , Florian Dörfler

Non-convex AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) is a fundamental optimization problem in power system analysis. The computational complexity of conventional solvers is typically high and not suitable for large-scale networks in real-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-09 Kejun Chen , Shourya Bose , Yu Zhang

Chance-constrained optimization (CCO) has been widely used for uncertainty management in power system operation. With the prevalence of wind energy, it becomes possible to consider the wind curtailment as a dispatch variable in CCO.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Xingyu Lei , Zhifang Yang , Junbo Zhao , Juan Yu

We propose a data-based method to solve a multi-stage stochastic optimal power flow (OPF) problem based on limited information about forecast error distributions. The framework explicitly combines multi-stage feedback policies with any…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Yi Guo , Kyri Baker , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Zechun Hu , Tyler H. Summers

Optimal power flow (OPF) is an important problem for power generation and it is in general non-convex. With the employment of renewable energy, it will be desirable if OPF can be solved very efficiently so its solution can be used in real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-27 Albert Y. S. Lam , Baosen Zhang , David Tse

We explore machine learning methods for AC Optimal Powerflow (ACOPF) - the task of optimizing power generation in a transmission network according while respecting physical and engineering constraints. We present two formulations of ACOPF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Neel Guha , Zhecheng Wang , Matt Wytock , Arun Majumdar

Renewable energy sources (RES) are increasingly integrated into power systems to support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals of decarbonization and energy security. However, their low inertia and high uncertainty pose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Aleksander Lukashevich , Aleksander Bulkin , Yury Maximov

This paper formalizes an optimal water-power flow (OWPF) problem to optimize the use of controllable assets across power and water systems while accounting for the couplings between the two infrastructures. Tanks and pumps are optimally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Ahmed S. Zamzam , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Changhong Zhao , Josh A. Taylor , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos