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The U.S. power grid is undergoing a major paradigm shift with the increased development of renewable generators, electric vehicles, and data centers. In response to this growing need, the U.S. has ramped up the construction of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Rosemary Barrass , Harsha Nagarajan , Mathieu Tanneau , Russell Bent , Pascal Van Hentenryck

This paper proposes a global optimization method for it ensures finding good solutions while solving the unit commitment (UC) problem with carbon emission trading (CET). This method con-sists of two parts. In the first part, a sequence of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-28 Linfeng Yang , Wei Li , Guo Chen , Beihua Fang , Chunming Tang , Zhaoyang Dong

As the cornerstone of modern power systems, the Unit Commitment Problem (UC) is critical for ensuring operational security and economic efficiency in the ongoing global energy transition. However, existing UC studies typically propose…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuxin Zhao , Han Huang , Fangji Fu , Zhifeng Hao

The Unit Commitment problem with AC power flow constraints (UC-ACOPF) is a non-convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem encountered in power systems. Its combination of combinatorial complexity and non-convex nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 D. Gómez , S. Göttlich , A. Ríos , P. Salgado

Wind generation is traditionally treated as a non-dispatchable resource and is fully absorbed unless there are security issues. To tackle the operational reliability issues caused by the volatile and non-dispatchable wind generation, many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Cheng Wang , Feng Liu , Feng Qiu , Wei Wei , Jianhui Wang , Shengwei Mei

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

The unit commitment problem is an important optimization problem in the energy industry used to compute the most economical operating schedules of power plants. Typically, this problem has to be solved repeatedly with different data but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Nagisa Sugishita , Andreas Grothey , Ken McKinnon

Quick and reliable power system restoration is critically important after natural disasters or other sudden threats, such as cyber-attacks. Leveraging renewable resources in system restoration shortens recovery times, resulting in prevented…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Adam Mate , Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez

The unit commitment problem (UC) is an optimization problem concerning the operation of electrical generators. Many algorithms have been proposed for the UC and in recent years a more decentralized approach, by solving the UC with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Rogier Hans Wuijts , Marjan van den Akker , Machteld van den Broek

A power system unit commitment (UC) problem considering uncertainties of renewable energy sources is investigated in this paper, through a distributionally robust optimization approach. We assume that the first and second order moments of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Xiaodong Zheng , Haoyong Chen , Yan Xu , Zhengmao Li , Zhenjia Lin , Zipeng Liang

Due to the established energy production methods contribution to the climate crisis, renewable energy is to replace a substantial part of coal or nuclear plants to prevent greenhouse gases or toxic waste entering the atmosphere. This…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Vincent Meilinger

Incorporating the AC power flow equations into unit commitment models has the potential to avoid costly corrective actions required by less accurate power flow approximations. However, research on unit commitment with AC power flow…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Robert Parker , Carleton Coffrin

Resource scheduling is critical in many industries, especially in power systems. The Unit Commitment problem determines the on/off status and output levels of generators under many constraints. Traditional exact methods, such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Tyler Christeson , Md Habib Ullah , Ali Arabnya , Amin Khodaei , Rui Fan

The widespread diffusion of distributed energy resources, especially those based on renewable energy, and energy storage devices has deeply modified power systems. As a consequence, demand response, the ability of customers to respond to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Francesco Conte , Matteo Saviozzi , Samuele Grillo

Recent trends see a move away from a fixed-resource server-centric datacenter model to a more adaptable "disaggregated" datacenter model. These disaggregated datacenters can then dynamically group resources to the specific requirements of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Rashadul Kabir , Ryan G. Kim , Mahdi Nikdast

The joint management of heat and power systems is believed to be key to the integration of renewables into energy systems with a large penetration of district heating. Determining the day-ahead unit commitment and production schedules for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Marco Zugno , Juan M. Morales , Henrik Madsen

Keeping the balance between supply and demand is a fundamental task in power system operational planning practices. This task becomes particularly challenging due to the deepening penetration of renewable energy resources, which induces a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-24 Xinbo Geng , Le Xie

This paper proposes a reformulation of the scenario-based two-stage unit commitment problem under uncertainty that allows finding unit-commitment plans that perform reasonably well both in expectation and for the worst case realization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Ignacio Blanco , Juan M. Morales

The rapid expansion of data center infrastructure is reshaping power system dynamics by significantly increasing electricity demand while also offering potential for fast and controllable flexibility. To ensure reliable operation under such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Pengyu Ren , Wei Sun , Yifan Wang , Gareth Harrison

In this work we solve the day-ahead unit commitment (UC) problem, by formulating it as a Markov decision process (MDP) and finding a low-cost policy for generation scheduling. We present two reinforcement learning algorithms, and devise a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gal Dalal , Shie Mannor