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Convex Relaxations of Maximal Load Delivery for Multi-contingency Analysis of Joint Electric Power and Natural Gas Transmission Networks
Byron Tasseff, Carleton Coffrin, Russell Bent
Recent increases in gas-fired power generation have engendered increased interdependencies between natural gas and power transmission systems. These interdependencies have amplifie…
Natural Gas Maximal Load Delivery for Multi-contingency Analysis
Byron Tasseff, Carleton Coffrin, Russell Bent +2
As the use of renewable generation has increased, electric power systems have become increasingly reliant on natural gas-fired power plants as fast ramping sources for meeting fluc…
The Impacts of Convex Piecewise Linear Cost Formulations on AC Optimal Power Flow
Carleton Coffrin, Bernard Knueven, Jesse Holzer +1
Despite strong connections through shared application areas, research efforts on power market optimization (e.g., unit commitment) and power network optimization (e.g., optimal pow…
The Potential of Quantum Annealing for Rapid Solution Structure Identification
Yuchen Pang, Carleton Coffrin, Andrey Y. Lokhov +1
The recent emergence of novel computational devices, such as quantum computers, coherent Ising machines, and digital annealers presents new opportunities for hardware-accelerated h…
Exploring Benefits of Linear Solver Parallelism on Modern Nonlinear Optimization Applications
Byron Tasseff, Carleton Coffrin, Andreas Wächter +1
The advent of efficient interior point optimization methods has enabled the tractable solution of large-scale linear and nonlinear programming (NLP) problems. A prominent example o…
The Power Grid Library for Benchmarking AC Optimal Power Flow Algorithms
Sogol Babaeinejadsarookolaee, Adam Birchfield, Richard D. Christie +20
In recent years, the power systems research community has seen an explosion of novel methods for formulating the AC power flow equations. Consequently, benchmarking studies using t…