4 papers
A Hierarchical MARL-Based Approach for Coordinated Retail P2P Trading and Wholesale Market Participation of DERs
Patrick Wilk, Ethan Cantor, Yikui Liu +1
The ongoing shift towards decentralization of the electric energy sector, driven by the growing electrification across end-use sectors, and widespread adoption of distributed energ…
DRL-Based Medium-Term Planning of Renewable-Integrated Self-Scheduling Cascaded Hydropower to Guide Wholesale Market Participation
Xianbang Chen, Yikui Liu, Neng Fan +1
For self-scheduling cascaded hydropower (S-CHP) facilities, medium-term planning is a critical step that coordinates water availability over the medium-term horizon, providing wate…
A Carryover Storage Valuation Framework for Medium-Term Cascaded Hydropower Planning: A Portland General Electric System Study
Xianbang Chen, Yikui Liu, Zhiming Zhong +3
Medium-term planning of cascaded hydropower (CHP) determines appropriate carryover storage levels in reservoirs to optimize the usage of available water resources. This optimizatio…
Multi-Transmission Node DER Aggregation: Chance-Constrained Unit Commitment with Bounded Hetero-Dimensional Mixture Model for Uncertain Distribution Factors
Weilun Wang, Zhentong Shao, Yikui Liu +4
To facilitate the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into the wholesale market while maintaining the tractability of associated market operation tools such as unit…