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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

Two-stage robust unit commitment (RUC) models have been widely used for day-ahead energy and reserve scheduling under high renewable integration. The current state of the art relies on budget-constrained polyhedral uncertainty sets to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Alexandre Velloso , Alexandre Street , David Pozo , José M. Arroyo , Noemi G. Cobos

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

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

Unit Commitment (UC) is a core optimization problem in power system operation and electricity market scheduling. It determines the optimal on/off status and dispatch of generating units while satisfying system, operational, and market…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Milad Hasanzadeh , Ali Rajabi , Amin Kargarian

The advent of High Performance Computing (HPC) has provided the computational capacity required for power system operators (SO) to obtain solutions in the least time to highly-complex applications, i.e., Unit Commitment (UC). The UC…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Mushfiqur R. Sarker , Jianhui Wang

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

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

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

In the face of extreme events, e.g., hurricanes, the transmission systems, especially the transmission lines, are affected across time and space. To mitigate these impacts on the day-ahead market from a probabilistic perspective, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Tianyang Zhao , Huajun Zhang , Xiaochuan Liu , Shuhan Yao , Peng Wang

This paper proposes a sequential convex relaxation method for obtaining feasible and near-globally optimal solutions for unit commitment (UC) with AC transmission constraints. First, we develop a second-order cone programming (SOCP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Fariba Zohrizadeh , Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Adnan Nasir , Ramtin Madani

The quantum hybrid algorithm has become a very promising and speedily method today for solving the larger-scale optimization in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. The unit commitment (UC) problem is a fundamental problem in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jian Liu , Xu Zhou , Zhuojun Zhou , Le Luo

The unit commitment (UC) problem stands as a critical optimization challenge in the electrical power industry. It is classified as NP-hard, placing it among the most intractable problems to solve. This paper introduces a novel hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Bruna Salgado , André Sequeira , Luis Paulo Santos

Modern network-constrained unit commitment (NCUC) bears a heavy computational burden due to the ever-growing model scale. This situation becomes more challenging when detailed operational characteristics, complicated constraints, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Zekuan Yu , Haiwang Zhong , Guangchun Ruan , Xinfei Yan

Unit maintenance and unit commitment are two critical and interrelated aspects of electric power system operation, both of which face the challenge of coordinating efforts to enhance reliability and economic performance. This challenge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Hongrui Lu , Yuxiong Huang , Tong He , Gengfeng Li

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

We devise the Unit Commitment Nearest Neighbor (UCNN) algorithm to be used as a proxy for quickly approximating outcomes of short-term decisions, to make tractable hierarchical long-term assessment and planning for large power systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Gal Dalal , Elad Gilboa , Shie Mannor , Louis Wehenkel

Unit commitment and load dispatch problems are important and complex problems in power system operations that have being traditionally solved separately. In this paper, both problems are solved together without approximations or…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas , Junichi Murata , Hirotaka Takano

This work presents a GPU-accelerated solver for the unit commitment (UC) problem in large-scale power grids. The solver uses the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm to efficiently solve the relaxed linear subproblem, achieving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Hussein Sharadga , Javad Mohammadi

Security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) model is used for power system day-ahead scheduling. However, current SCUC model uses a static network to deliver power and meet demand optimally. A dynamic network can provide a lower optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Arun Venkatesh Ramesh , Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman