6 papers
Robust Capacity Expansion under Wildfire Ignition Risk and High Renewable Penetration
Tomás Tapia, Ryan Piansky, Yury Dvorkin +1
In power systems, the risk of wildfire ignition has increased significantly in recent years. The impact and severity of these events on energy dispatch, as well as their societal r…
High-Fidelity Capacity Expansion Planning for Puerto Rico's Electric Power System
Elizabeth Glista, Tomas Valencia Zuluaga, Amelia Musselman +3
This study presents a mathematical optimization framework and analysis to inform practical long-term investment planning in Puerto Rico's electric power system. We utilize a high-r…
Modeling Adversarial Wildfires for Power Grid Disruption
Matthew Brun, Xu Andy Sun, Jean-Paul Watson
Electric power infrastructure faces increasing risk of damage and disruption due to wildfire. Operators of power grids in wildfire-prone regions must consider the potential impacts…
From Zonal to Nodal Capacity Expansion Planning: Spatial Aggregation Impacts on a Realistic Test-Case
Elizabeth Glista, Bernard Knueven, Jean-Paul Watson
Solving power system capacity expansion planning (CEP) problems at realistic spatial resolutions is computationally challenging. Thus, a common practice is to solve CEP over zonal…
Nodal Capacity Expansion Planning with Flexible Large-Scale Load Siting
Tomas Valencia Zuluaga, Simon Pang, Jean-Paul Watson
We propose explicitly incorporating large-scale load siting into a stochastic nodal power system capacity expansion planning model that concurrently co-optimizes generation, transm…
Exact and Heuristic Approaches for the Stochastic N-k Interdiction in Power Grids
Kaarthik Sundar, Andrew Mastin, Manuel Garcia +2
The article introduces the stochastic N-k interdiction problem for power grid operations and planning that aims to identify a subset of k components (out of N components) that maxi…