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Physical and Economic Viability of Cryptocurrency Mining for Provision of Frequency Regulation: A Real-World Texas Case Study
Rayan El Helou, Ali Menati, Le Xie
Demand flexibility plays a pivotal role in modern power systems with high penetration of variable energy resources. In recent years, one of the fastest-growing flexible energy dema…
Optimization of Cryptocurrency Miners' Participation in Ancillary Service Markets
Ali Menati, Yuting Cai, Rayan El Helou +2
Proof-of-work computation used in cryptocurrencies has witnessed significant growth in the U.S. and many other regions around the world. One of the most significant bottlenecks for…
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…
Modeling and Analysis of Utilizing Cryptocurrency Mining for Demand Flexibility in Electric Energy Systems: A Synthetic Texas Grid Case Study
Ali Menati, Kiyeob Lee, Le Xie
The electricity sector is facing the dual challenge of supporting increasing level of demand electrification while substantially reducing its carbon footprint. Among electricity de…
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…
Competitive Prediction-Aware Online Algorithms for Energy Generation Scheduling in Microgrids
Ali Menati, Sid Chi-Kin Chau, Minghua Chen
Online decision-making in the presence of uncertain future information is abundant in many problem domains. In the critical problem of energy generation scheduling for microgrids,…