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Impact of Climate Simulation Resolutions on Future Energy System Reliability Assessment: A Texas Case Study
Xiangtian Zheng, Le Xie, Kiyeob Lee +3
The reliability of energy systems is strongly influenced by the prevailing climate conditions. With the increasing prevalence of renewable energy sources, the interdependence betwe…
High Resolution Modeling and Analysis of Cryptocurrency Mining's Impact on Power Grids: Carbon Footprint, Reliability, and Electricity Price
Ali Menati, Xiangtian Zheng, Kiyeob Lee +4
Blockchain technologies are considered one of the most disruptive innovations of the last decade, enabling secure decentralized trust-building. However, in recent years, with the r…
Energy System Digitization in the Era of AI: A Three-Layered Approach towards Carbon Neutrality
Le Xie, Tong Huang, Xiangtian Zheng +6
The transition towards carbon-neutral electricity is one of the biggest game changers in addressing climate change since it addresses the dual challenges of removing carbon emissio…
How Much Demand Flexibility Could Have Spared Texas from the 2021 Outage?
Dongqi Wu, Xiangtian Zheng, Ali Menati +5
The February 2021 Texas winter power outage has led to hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in economic losses, largely due to the generation failure and record-breaking elec…
Massively Digitized Power Grid: Opportunities and Challenges of Use-inspired AI
Le Xie, Xiangtian Zheng, Yannan Sun +2
This article presents a use-inspired perspective of the opportunities and challenges in a massively digitized power grid. It argues that the intricate interplay of data availabilit…
A Multi-scale Time-series Dataset with Benchmark for Machine Learning in Decarbonized Energy Grids
Xiangtian Zheng, Nan Xu, Loc Trinh +5
The electric grid is a key enabling infrastructure for the ambitious transition towards carbon neutrality as we grapple with climate change. With deepening penetration of renewable…
An Open-source Model for Simulation and Corrective Measure Assessment of the 2021 Texas Power Outage
Dongqi Wu, Xiangtian Zheng, Yixing Xu +4
Unprecedented winter storms that hit across Texas in February 2021 have caused at least 69 deaths and 4.5 million customer interruptions due to the wide-ranging generation capacity…
A Cross-Domain Approach to Analyzing the Short-Run Impact of COVID-19 on the U.S. Electricity Sector
Guangchun Ruan, Dongqi Wu, Xiangtian Zheng +5
The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has rapidly spread around the globe in 2020, with the U.S. becoming the epicenter of COVID-19 cases since late March. As the U.S. begins to…
Creation of Synthetic Networked PMU Data: A Generative Adversarial Network Approach
Xiangtian Zheng, Bin Wang, Dileep Kalathil +1
This paper introduces a machine learning-based approach to synthetically creating realistic phasor measurement unit (PMU) data streams of multiple transient types. In contrast to t…
Nested Reinforcement Learning Based Control for Protective Relays in Power Distribution Systems
Dongqi Wu, Xiangtian Zheng, Dileep Kalathil +1
This paper envisions a new control architecture for the protective relay setting in future power distribution systems. With deepening penetration of distributed energy resources at…
Synthetic Dynamic PMU Data Generation: A Generative Adversarial Network Approach
Xiangtian Zheng, Bin Wang, Le Xie
This paper concerns with the production of synthetic phasor measurement unit (PMU) data for research and education purposes. Due to the confidentiality of real PMU data and no publ…