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22 papers

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Misaka: Interactive Swarm Testbed for Smart Grid Distributed Algorithm Test and Evaluation

Tingliang Zhang, Haiwang Zhong, Zhenfei Tan +1

In this paper, we present Misaka, a visualized swarm testbed for smart grid algorithm evaluation, also an extendable open-source open-hardware platform for developing tabletop tang…

eess.SY2023

A Projection-Based Approach for Distributed Energy Resources Aggregation

Yiran Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Guangchun Ruan

Aggregating distributed energy resources (DERs) is of great significance to improve the overall operational efficiency of smart grid. The aggregation model needs to consider variou…

eess.SY2023★ 2 cited

Life cycle economic viability analysis of battery storage in electricity market

Yinguo Yang, Yiling Ye, Zhuoxiao Cheng +4

Battery storage is essential to enhance the flexibility and reliability of electric power systems by providing auxiliary services and load shifting. Storage owners typically gains…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Real-time scheduling of renewable power systems through planning-based reinforcement learning

Shaohuai Liu, Jinbo Liu, Weirui Ye +8

The growing renewable energy sources have posed significant challenges to traditional power scheduling. It is difficult for operators to obtain accurate day-ahead forecasts of rene…

eess.SY2023

Look-Ahead AC Optimal Power Flow: A Model-Informed Reinforcement Learning Approach

Xinyue Wang, Haiwang Zhong, Guanglun Zhang +3

With the increasing proportion of renewable energy in the generation side, it becomes more difficult to accurately predict the power generation and adapt to the large deviations be…

math.OC2023★ 48 cited

Non-Iterative Solution for Coordinated Optimal Dispatch via Equivalent Projection-Part II: Method and Applications

Zhenfei Tan, Zheng Yan, Haiwang Zhong +1

This two-part paper develops a non-iterative coordinated optimal dispatch framework, i.e., free of iterative information exchange, via the innovation of the equivalent projection (…

math.OC2023★ 44 cited

Non-Iterative Solution for Coordinated Optimal Dispatch via Equivalent Projection-Part I: Theory

Zhenfei Tan, Zheng Yan, Haiwang Zhong +1

Coordinated optimal dispatch is of utmost importance for the efficient and secure operation of hierarchically structured power systems. Conventional coordinated optimization method…

eess.SY2023

Low-Carbon Economic Dispatch of Bulk Power Systems Using Nash Bargaining Game

Xuyang Li, Guangchun Ruan, Haiwang Zhong

Decarbonization of power systems plays a crucial role in achieving carbon neutral goals across the globe, but there exists a sharp contradiction between the emission reduction and…

eess.SY2022

Transmission Congestion Management with Generalized Generation Shift Distribution Factors

Shutong Pu, Guangchun Ruan, Xinfei Yan +1

A major concern in modern power systems is that the popularity and fluctuating characteristics of renewable energy may cause more and more transmission congestion events. Tradition…

eess.SY2022

Improving Sample Efficiency of Deep Learning Models in Electricity Market

Guangchun Ruan, Jianxiao Wang, Haiwang Zhong +2

The superior performance of deep learning relies heavily on a large collection of sample data, but the data insufficiency problem turns out to be relatively common in global electr…

eess.SY2022

Evaluation of Look-ahead Economic Dispatch Using Reinforcement Learning

Zekuan Yu, Guangchun Ruan, Xinyue Wang +3

Modern power systems are experiencing a variety of challenges driven by renewable energy, which calls for developing novel dispatch methods such as reinforcement learning (RL). Eva…

physics.data-an2022★ 1 cited

Carbon Monitor-Power: near-real-time monitoring of global power generation on hourly to daily scales

Biqing Zhu, Xuanren Song, Zhu Deng +13

We constructed a frequently updated, near-real-time global power generation dataset: Carbon Monitor-Power since January, 2016 at national levels with near-global coverage and hourl…

eess.SY2021

Open-Access Data and Toolbox for Tracking COVID-19 Impact on Power Systems

Guangchun Ruan, Zekuan Yu, Shutong Pu +5

Intervention policies against COVID-19 have caused large-scale disruptions globally, and led to a series of pattern changes in the power system operation. Analyzing these pandemic-…

cs.LG2021★ 45 cited

Estimating Demand Flexibility Using Siamese LSTM Neural Networks

Guangchun Ruan, Daniel S. Kirschen, Haiwang Zhong +2

There is an opportunity in modern power systems to explore the demand flexibility by incentivizing consumers with dynamic prices. In this paper, we quantify demand flexibility usin…

cs.LG2021★ 9 cited

Short-Term Electricity Price Forecasting based on Graph Convolution Network and Attention Mechanism

Yuyun Yang, Zhenfei Tan, Haitao Yang +2

In electricity markets, locational marginal price (LMP) forecasting is particularly important for market participants in making reasonable bidding strategies, managing potential tr…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 127 cited

Global Daily CO emissions for the year 2020

Zhu Liu, Zhu Deng, Philippe Ciais +25

The diurnal cycle CO emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production reflect seasonality, weather conditions, working days, and more recently the impact of the COVI…

physics.soc-ph2021

Quantitative Assessment of U.S. Bulk Power Systems and Market Operations during COVID-19

Guangchun Ruan, Jiahan Wu, Haiwang Zhong +2

Starting in early 2020, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) severely affected the U.S., causing substantial changes in the operations of bulk power systems and electricity mar…

physics.ao-ph2021★ 4 cited

De-carbonization of global energy use during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhu Liu, Biqing Zhu, Philippe Ciais +15

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human activities, leading to unprecedented decreases in both global energy demand and GHG emissions. Yet a little known that there is also a low…

eess.SY2020★ 57 cited

Review of Learning-Assisted Power System Optimization

Guangchun Ruan, Haiwang Zhong, Guanglun Zhang +3

With dramatic breakthroughs in recent years, machine learning is showing great potential to upgrade the toolbox for power system optimization. Understanding the strength and limita…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 14 cited

Carbon Monitor: a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng +15

We constructed a near-real-time daily CO2 emission dataset, namely the Carbon Monitor, to monitor the variations of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production…

cs.CY2020★ 57 cited

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…

econ.GN2020★ 825 cited

COVID-19 causes record decline in global CO2 emissions

Zhu Liu, Philippe Ciais, Zhu Deng +37

The considerable cessation of human activities during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected global energy use and CO2 emissions. Here we show the unprecedented decrease in global foss…