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Recent studies have shown that multi-step optimization based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) can effectively coordinate the increasing number of distributed renewable energy and storage resources in the power system. However, the…

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Multistage stochastic optimization problems are, by essence, complex as their solutions are indexed both by stages and by uncertainties. Their large scale nature makes decomposition methods appealing, like dynamic programming which is a…

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Operations research practitioners frequently want to model complicated functions that are are difficult to encode in their underlying optimisation framework. A common approach is to solve an approximate model, and to use a simulation to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Michael Forbes , Mitchell Harris , Marijn Jansen , Femke van der Schoot , Thomas Taimre

The integration of more renewable energy sources into the power system is presenting system operators with various challenges. At the distribution system level, voltage magnitudes that violate operating limits near large photovoltaic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Sandro Merkli , Roy S. Smith

This work presents a general framework for the operationally driven optimal siting and sizing of battery energy storage systems in power transmission networks, aimed at enhancing their resource adequacy. The approach considers multi-period…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-05 Ginevra Larroux , Matthieu Jacobs , Keyu Jia , Fabrizio Sossan , Mario Paolone

As renewable energy integration, sector coupling, and spatiotemporal detail increase, energy system optimization models grow in size and complexity, often pushing solvers to their performance limits. This systematic review explores…

This paper proposes a data-driven version of the Benders decomposition algorithm applied to the stochastic unit commitment (SUC) problem. The proposed methodology aims at finding a trade-off between the size of the Benders master problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Baudouin Vandenbussche , Stefanos Delikaraoglou , Ignacio Blanco , Gabriela Hug

We propose explicitly incorporating large-scale load siting into a stochastic nodal power system capacity expansion planning model that concurrently co-optimizes generation, transmission and storage expansion. The potential operational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Tomas Valencia Zuluaga , Simon Pang , Jean-Paul Watson

We apply logic-based Benders decomposition (LBBD) to two-stage stochastic planning and scheduling problems in which the second-stage is a scheduling task. We solve the master problem with mixed integer/linear programming and the subproblem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Ozgun Elci , J. N. Hooker

Stochastic programming is widely used for energy system design optimization under uncertainty but can exponentially increase the computational complexity with the number of scenarios. Common scenario reduction techniques, like…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Boyung Jürgens , Hagen Seele , Hendrik Schricker , Christiane Reinert , Niklas von der Assen

The multi-energy management framework of industrial parks advocates energy conversion and scheduling, which takes full advantage of the compensation and temporal availability of multiple energy. However, how to exploit elastic loads and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-25 Dafeng Zhu , Bo Yang , Zhaojian Wang , Chengbin Ma , Kai Ma , Shanying Zhu

Solving large-scale capacity expansion problems (CEPs) is central to cost-effective decarbonization of regional-scale energy systems. To ensure the intended outcomes of CEPs, modeling uncertainty due to weather-dependent variable renewable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Aron Brenner , Rahman Khorramfar , Dharik Mallapragada , Saurabh Amin

There has been widespread interest in the use of grid-level storage to handle the variability from increasing penetrations of wind and solar energy. This problem setting requires optimizing energy storage and release decisions for anywhere…

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During recent years, quantum computers have received increasing attention, primarily due to their ability to significantly increase computational performance for specific problems. Computational performance could be improved for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Ludger Leenders , Martin Sollich , Christiane Reinert , André Bardow

Scenario-based optimization problems can be solved via Benders decomposition, which separates first-stage (master problem) decisions from second-stage (subproblem) recourse actions and iteratively refines the master problem with Benders…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Tim Donkiewicz

We present a capacity expansion model for deciding the new electricity generation and transmission capacity to complement an existing hydroelectric reservoir system. The objective is to meet a forecast demand at least expected cost, namely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Jarand Hole , Andy Philpott , Oscar Dowson

This paper applies the N-block PCPM algorithm to solve multi-scale multi-stage stochastic programs, with the application to electricity capacity expansion models. Numerical results show that the proposed simplified N-block PCPM algorithm,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Run Chen , Andrew L. Liu

In energy management, it is common that strategic investment decisions (storage capacity, production units) are made at a slow time scale, whereas operational decisions (storage, production) are made at a fast time scale: for such problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-08 Tristan Rigaut , Pierre Carpentier , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Michel de Lara

Dynamic programming on tree decompositions is a frequently used approach to solve otherwise intractable problems on instances of small treewidth. In recent work by Bodlaender et al., it was shown that for many connectivity problems, there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Stefan Fafianie , Hans L. Bodlaender , Jesper Nederlof

One popular technique to solve temporal planning problems consists in decoupling the causal decisions, demanding them to heuristic search, from temporal decisions, demanding them to a simple temporal network (STN) solver. In this…

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