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In an attempt to speed up the solution of the unit commitment (UC) problem, both machine-learning and optimization-based methods have been proposed to lighten the full UC formulation by removing as many superfluous line-flow constraints as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Álvaro Porras , Salvador Pineda , Juan M. Morales , Asunción Jiménez-Cordero

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

Day-ahead unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental task for power system operators, where generator statuses and power dispatch are determined based on the forecasted nodal net demands. The uncertainty inherent in renewables and load…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-12 Xuan He , Honglin Wen , Yufan Zhang , Yize Chen , Danny H. K. Tsang

Power systems Unit Commitment (UC) problem determines the generator commitment schedule and dispatch decisions for power networks based on forecasted electricity demand. However, with the increasing penetration of renewables and stochastic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Xuan He , Jiayu Tian , Yufan Zhang , Honglin Wen , Yize Chen

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 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

Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) is a fundamental problem in power systems and electricity markets. In practical settings, SCUC is repeatedly solved via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming, sometimes multiple times per day, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Alinson S. Xavier , Feng Qiu , Shabbir Ahmed

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 daily operation of real-world power systems and their underlying markets relies on the timely solution of the unit commitment problem. However, given its computational complexity, several optimization-based methods have been proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Mohamed Awadalla , François Bouffard

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 Unit Commitment (UC) problem is a key optimization task in power systems to forecast the generation schedules of power units over a finite time period by minimizing costs while meeting demand and technical constraints. However, many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Matthias Pirlet , Adrien Bolland , Gilles Louppe , Damien Ernst

The growing number of individual generating units, hybrid resources, and security constraints has significantly increased the computational burden of network-constrained unit commitment (UC), where most solution time is spent exploring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Guangwen Wang , Jiaqi Wu , Yang Weng , Baosen Zhang

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

Model predictive control (MPC) is widely used in industries but implementing it poses challenges due to hardware or time constraints. A promising solution is to approximate the MPC policy using function approximators like neural networks.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Chenchen Zhou , Yi Cao , Shuang-hua Yang

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) is a computationally complex process utilized in power system day-ahead scheduling and market clearing. SCUC is run daily and requires state-of-the-art algorithms to speed up the process. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li

When dealing with real-world optimization problems, decision-makers usually face high levels of uncertainty associated with partial information, unknown parameters, or complex relationships between these and the problem decision variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Antonio Alcántara , Carlos Ruiz

In this paper, we develop a unified machine learning (ML) approach to predict high-quality solutions for single-machine scheduling problems with a non-decreasing min-sum objective function with or without release times. Our ML approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Anbang Liu , Zhi-Long Chen , Jinyang Jiang , Xi Chen

With rapid integration of power sources with uncertainty, robustness must be carefully considered in the transmission constrained unit commitment (TCUC) problem. The overall computational complexity of the robust TCUC methods is closely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Xuan Li , Qiaozhu Zhai , Xiaohong Guan

In many power system optimization problems, we observe that only a small fraction of the line flow constraints ever become active at the optimal solution, despite variations in the load profile and generation costs. This observation has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Line Roald , Daniel K. Molzahn

The Unit Commitment (UC) problem is a classic challenge in the optimal scheduling of power systems. Years of research and practice have shown that formulating reasonable unit commitment plans can significantly improve the economic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Junjin Lv , Chenggang Cui , Shaodi Zhang , Hui Chen , Chunyang Gong , Jiaming Liu
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