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With the increasing penetration of renewable energy, frequency response and its security are of significant concerns for reliable power system operations. Frequency-constrained unit commitment (FCUC) is proposed to address this challenge.…

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The unit commitment (UC) problem is a nonlinear, high-dimensional, highly constrained, mixed-integer power system optimization problem and is generally solved in the literature considering minimizing the system operation cost as the only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Anupam Trivedi , Kunal Pal , Chiranjib Saha , Dipti Srinivasan

Unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental problem in the day-ahead electricity market, and it is critical to solve UC problems efficiently. Mathematical optimization techniques like dynamic programming, Lagrangian relaxation, and mixed-integer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Jingtao Qin , Yuanqi Gao , Mikhail Bragin , Nanpeng Yu

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

We introduce two new methods for deterministic convex optimization problems: QCC (Quadratic Cuts for Convex optimization) and QB (Quadratic Bundle method). We prove the complexity of these methods for composite optimization problems which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Vincent Guigues , Adriana Washington

We propose a novel computational method for unit commitment UC, which does not require linearized approximation and provides several orders of magnitude performance improvement over current state-of-the-art. The performance improvement is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Shaked Regev , Eve Tsybina , Slaven Peles

The Unit Commitment (UC) problem consists in controlling a large fleet of heterogeneous electricity production units in order to minimize the total production cost while satisfying consumer demand. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are used as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Hélène Arvis , Olivier Beaude , Nicolas Gast , Stéphane Gaubert , Bruno Gaujal

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

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

To contribute to a smart grid, the unit commitment and dispatch (UCD) is a very important problem to be revisited in the future microgrid environment. In this paper, the UCD problem is studied by taking account of both traditional thermal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Fangyuan Li , Jiahu Qin , Yu Kang

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

Stochastic programming can be applied to consider uncertainties in energy system optimization models for capacity expansion planning. However, these models become increasingly large and time-consuming to solve, even without considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Shima Sasanpour , Manuel Wetzel , Karl-Kiên Cao , Hans Christian Gils , Andrés Ramos

Benders decomposition (BD) is a widely used solution approach for solving two-stage stochastic programs arising in real-world decision-making under uncertainty. However, it often suffers from slow convergence as the master problem grows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Haochen Cai , Xian Yu

Unitary coupled cluster (UCC), originally developed as a variational alternative to the popular traditional coupled cluster method, has seen a resurgence as a functional form for use on quantum computers. However, the number of excitors…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Maria-Andreea Filip , Alex J. W. Thom

This paper applies Benders decomposition to two-stage stochastic problems for energy planning under climate uncertainty, a key problem for the design of renewable energy systems. To improve performance, we adapt various refinements for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Leonard Göke , Felix Schmidt , Mario Kendziorski

This paper proposes a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to solve a fundamental power system problem called unit commitment (UC). The UC problem is decomposed into a quadratic subproblem, a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Reza Mahroo , Amin Kargarian

The reduced level of system inertia in low-carbon power grids increases the need for alternative frequency services. However, simultaneously optimising the provision of these services in the scheduling process, subject to significant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Luis Badesa , Fei Teng , Goran Strbac

The deep penetration of wind and solar power is a critical component of the future power grid. However, the intermittency and stochasticity of these renewable resources bring significant challenges to the reliable and economic operation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Alvaro Lorca , Xu Andy Sun

Hybrid quantum-classical approaches offer potential solutions to quantum chemistry problems, yet they often manifest as constrained optimization problems. Here, we explore the interconnection between constrained optimization and generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Muqing Zheng , Bo Peng , Ang Li , Xiu Yang , Karol Kowalski

Two-stage stochastic unit commitment (2S-SUC) problems have been widely adopted to manage the uncertainties introduced by high penetrations of intermittent renewable energy resources. While decomposition-based algorithms such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Zhentong Shao , Jingtao Qin , Nanpeng Yu