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We present a solution of sparse alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) analysis on graphical processing unit (GPU). In particular, we discuss the performance bottlenecks and detail our efforts to accelerate the linear solver, a core…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kasia Swirydowicz , Nicholson Koukpaizan , Shrirang Abhyankar , Slaven Peles

This paper introduces a framework for solving alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problems using graphics processing units (GPUs). While GPUs have demonstrated remarkable performance in various computing domains, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Mihai Anitescu

We consider the unit commitment (UC) problem that employs the alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) constraints, which is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem and thus challenging to solve in practice. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Weiqi Zhang , Youngdae Kim , Kibaek Kim

Security-constrained unit commitment with alternating current optimal power flow (SCUC-ACOPF) is a central problem in power grid operations that optimizes commitment and dispatch of generators under a physically accurate power transmission…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Matthew Brun , Thomas Lee , Dirk Lauinger , Xin Chen , Xu Andy Sun

Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) is widely used in solving nonlinear optimization problem, with advantages of warm-starting solutions, as well as finding high-accurate solution and converging quadratically using second-order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-23 Bowen Li , Michel Schanen , Kibaek Kim

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

DC Optimal Power Flow (DCOPF) is a key operational tool for power system operators, and it is embedded as a subproblem in many challenging optimization problems (e.g., line switching). However, traditional CPU-based solve routines (e.g.,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Seide Saba Rafiei , Samuel Chevalier

In this paper, we study efficient and robust computational methods for solving the security-constrained alternating current optimal power flow (SC-ACOPF) problem, a two-stage nonlinear optimization problem with disjunctive constraints, that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Amin Gholami , Kaizhao Sun , Shixuan Zhang , Xu Andy Sun

We propose a GPU accelerated proximal message passing algorithm for solving contingency-constrained DC optimal power flow problems (OPF). We consider a highly general formulation of OPF that uses a sparse device-node model and supports a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Anthony Degleris , Abbas El Gamal , Ram Rajagopal

Alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problems are nonconvex and nonlinear optimization problems. Utilities and independent service operators (ISO) require ACOPF to be solved in almost real time. Interior point methods (IPMs) are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Sayed Abdullah Sadat , Kibaek Kim

Integrating renewable resources within the transmission grid at a wide scale poses significant challenges for economic dispatch as it requires analysis with more optimization parameters, constraints, and sources of uncertainty. This…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Kasia Świrydowicz , Nicholson Koukpaizan , Tobias Ribizel , Fritz Göbel , Shrirang Abhyankar , Hartwig Anzt , Slaven Peleš

In this paper, we develop an online method that leverages machine learning to obtain feasible solutions to the AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem with negligible optimality gaps on extremely fast timescales (e.g., milliseconds), bypassing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Ahmed Zamzam , Kyri Baker

Transmission-constrained problems in power systems can be cast as polynomial optimization problems whose coefficients vary over time. We consider the complications therein and suggest several approaches. On the example of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Jie Liu , Antonio Bellon , Andrea Simonetto , Martin Takac , Jakub Marecek

The Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problem is a core task in power system operations, aimed at determining cost-effective generation dispatch while satisfying physical and operational constraints. However, conventional ACOPF…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Vincenzo Di Vito , Kaarthik Sundar , Ferdinando Fioretto , Deepjyoti Deka

The coordinated alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) for coupled transmission-distribution grids has become crucial to handle problems related to high penetration of renewable energy sources (RESs). However, obtaining all system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Wentian Lu , Kaijun Xie , Mingbo Liu , Xiaogang Wang , Lefeng Cheng

Using machine learning to obtain solutions to AC optimal power flow has recently been a very active area of research due to the astounding speedups that result from bypassing traditional optimization techniques. However, generally ensuring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-18 Kyri Baker

In this paper, we present an optimization algorithm based on an alternating projection method to solve the large-scale security constraint optimal power flow (SCOPF) problem in power systems. The SCOPF is first partitioned into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Tuyen Vu

This paper demonstrates the scalability of open-source GPU-accelerated nonlinear programming (NLP) frameworks -- ExaModels.jl and MadNLP.jl -- for solving multi-period alternating current (AC) optimal power flow (OPF) problems on GPUs with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Sungho Shin , Vishwas Rao , Michel Schanen , D. Adrian Maldonado , Mihai Anitescu

In this paper, we discuss our approach and algorithmic framework for solving large-scale security constrained optimal power flow (SCOPF) problems. SCOPF is a mixed integer non-convex optimization problem that aims to obtain the minimum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Mohammadhafez Bazrafshan , Kyri Baker , Javad Mohammadi

Solving the nonlinear AC optimal power flow (AC OPF) problem remains a major computational bottleneck for real-time grid operations. In this paper, we propose a residual learning paradigm that uses fast DC optimal power flow (DC OPF)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhy Eddin Za'ter , Bri-Mathias Hodge , Kyri Baker
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