Recent Developments in Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow: Overview of Challenge 1 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition

Ignacio Aravena (), Daniel K. Molzahn (), Shixuan Zhang (), Cosmin G. Petra (), Frank E. Curtis (), Shenyinying Tu (), Andreas Wächter (), Ermin Wei (), Elizabeth Wong (), Amin Gholami (), Kaizhao Sun (), Xu Andy Sun (), Stephen T. Elbert (), Jesse T. Holzer () and Arun Veeramany ()
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Ignacio Aravena: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550; Teamgollnlp
Daniel K. Molzahn: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332; TeamGO-SNIP
Shixuan Zhang: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02903; Team GMI-GO
Cosmin G. Petra: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550; Teamgollnlp
Frank E. Curtis: Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015; TeamGO-SNIP
Shenyinying Tu: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208; TeamGO-SNIP
Andreas Wächter: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208; TeamGO-SNIP
Ermin Wei: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208; TeamGO-SNIP
Elizabeth Wong: University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; TeamGO-SNIP
Amin Gholami: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332; Team GMI-GO
Kaizhao Sun: Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc., Bellevue, Washington 98004; Team GMI-GO
Xu Andy Sun: Masachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142; pTeam GMI-GO
Stephen T. Elbert: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352; Grid Optimization Competition Organization Team
Jesse T. Holzer: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352; Grid Optimization Competition Organization Team
Arun Veeramany: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352; Grid Optimization Competition Organization Team

Operations Research, 2023, vol. 71, issue 6, 1997-2014

Abstract: The optimal power-flow problem is central to many tasks in the design and operation of electric power grids. This problem seeks the minimum-cost operating point for an electric power grid while satisfying both engineering requirements and physical laws describing how power travels through the electric network. By additionally considering the possibility of component failures and using an accurate alternating current (AC) power-flow model of the electric network, the security-constrained AC optimal power flow (SC-AC-OPF) problem is of paramount practical relevance. To assess recent progress in solution algorithms for SC-AC-OPF problems and spur new innovations, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy organized Challenge 1 of the Grid Optimization (GO) competition. This special issue includes papers authored by the top three teams in Challenge 1 of the GO Competition (Teams gollnlp, GO-SNIP, and GMI-GO). To introduce these papers and provide context about the competition, this paper describes the SC-AC-OPF problem formulation used in the competition, overviews historical developments and the state of the art in SC-AC-OPF algorithms, discusses the competition, and summarizes the algorithms used by these three teams.

Keywords: Special Issue on Computational Advances in Short-Term Power System Operation; security-constrained AC optimal power flow; optimization competition; complementarity constraints; large-scale optimization; nonlinear optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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