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We present a decomposition approach for obtaining good feasible solutions for the security-constrained alternating-current optimal power flow (SCACOPF) problem at an industrial scale and under real-world time and computational limits. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Cosmin G. Petra , Ignacio Aravena

Efficiently solving large-scale optimal power flow (OPF) problems is challenging due to the high dimensionality and interconnectivity of modern power systems. Decomposition methods offer a promising solution via partitioning large problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Mohannad Alkhraijah , Devon Sigler , Daniel K. Molzahn

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is pivotal for power system operations, guiding generator output and power distribution to meet demand at minimized costs, while adhering to physical and engineering constraints. The integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Chen Li , Alexander Kies , Kai Zhou , Markus Schlott , Omar El Sayed , Mariia Bilousova , Horst Stoecker

Geometric Representation Learning (GRL) aims to approximate the non-Euclidean topology of high-dimensional data through discrete graph structures, grounded in the manifold hypothesis. However, traditional static graph construction methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chaoqun Fei , Huanjiang Liu , Tinglve Zhou , Yangyang Li , Tianyong Hao

The increasing application of voltage source converter (VSC) high voltage direct current (VSC-HVDC) technology in power grids has raised the importance of incorporating DC grids and converters into the existing transmission network. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Junyi Zhai , Xinliang Dai , Yuning Jiang , Ying Xue , Veit Hagenmeyer , Colin N. Jones , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Power flow calculations for systems with a large number of buses, e.g. grids with multiple voltage levels, or time series based calculations result in a high computational effort. A common power flow solver for the efficient analysis of…

Computation · Statistics 2018-04-19 Florian Schäfer , Martin Braun

Using deep neural networks to predict the solutions of AC optimal power flow (ACOPF) problems has been an active direction of research. However, because the ACOPF is nonconvex, it is difficult to construct a good data set that contains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Ling Zhang , Baosen Zhang

This paper considers the problem of controlling inverter-interfaced distributed energy resources (DERs) in a distribution grid to solve an AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem in real time. The AC OPF includes voltage constraints, and seeks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Antonin Colot , Yiting Chen , Bertrand Cornelusse , Jorge Cortes , Emiliano Dall'Anese

To solve the problem that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are difficult to process non-grid type relational data like graphs, Kipf et al. proposed a graph convolutional neural network (GCN). The core idea of the GCN is to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Shangsheng Xie , Mingming Lu

Alternating-Current Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) is framed as a NP-hard non-convex optimization problem that solves for the most economical dispatch of grid generation given the AC-network and device constraints. Although there are no…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Amritanshu Pandey , Aayushya Agarwal , Larry Pileggi

Optimal power flow (OPF) is a critical optimization problem that allocates power to the generators in order to satisfy the demand at a minimum cost. Solving this problem exactly is computationally infeasible in the general case. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Damian Owerko , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

Solving the AC optimal power flow problem (AC-OPF) is critical to the efficient and safe planning and operation of power grids. Small efficiency improvements in this domain have the potential to lead to billions of dollars of cost savings,…

Despite their widespread use, purely data-driven methods often suffer from overfitting, lack of physical consistency, and high data dependency, particularly when physical constraints are not incorporated. This study introduces a novel data…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown considerable effectiveness in a variety of graph learning tasks, particularly those based on the message-passing approach in recent years. However, their performance is often constrained by a limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Ruizhe Zhang , Xinke Jiang , Yuchen Fang , Jiayuan Luo , Yongxin Xu , Yichen Zhu , Xu Chu , Junfeng Zhao , Yasha Wang

This paper introduces a new method for solving the distributed AC power flow (PF) problem by further exploiting the problem formulation. We propose a new variant of the ALADIN algorithm devised specifically for this type of problem. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Xinliang Dai , Yichen Cai , Yuning Jiang , Veit Hagenmeyer

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

The Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF) problem remains one of the most fundamental yet computationally challenging tasks in power systems operation and planning due to its nonconvex, nonlinear, and multimodal nature. This paper…

Attention Graph Neural Networks (AT-GNNs), such as GAT and Graph Transformer, have demonstrated superior performance compared to other GNNs. However, existing GNN systems struggle to efficiently train AT-GNNs on GPUs due to their intricate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jiahui Liu , Zhenkun Cai , Zhiyong Chen , Minjie Wang

Alternative Current Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF) is essential for efficient power system planning and real-time operation but remains an NP-hard and non-convex optimization problem with significant computational challenges. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Ze Hu , Ziqing Zhu , Linghua Zhu , Xiang Wei , Siqi Bu , Ka Wing Chan

We consider a robust optimization problem in an electric power system under uncertain demand and availability of renewable energy resources. Solving the deterministic alternating current optimal power flow (ACOPF) problem has been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Chaithanya Bandi , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , David Morton , Haoxiang Yang