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Incentivizing Investment and Reliability: A Study on Electricity Capacity Markets
Cheng Guo, Christian Kroer, Yury Dvorkin +1
The capacity market, a marketplace to exchange available generation capacity for electricity production, provides a major revenue stream for generators and is adopted in several U.…
MaDEVIoT: Cyberattacks on EV Charging Can Disrupt Power Grid Operation
Samrat Acharya, Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan, Ramesh Karri +1
This paper examines the feasibility of demand-side cyberattacks on power grids launched via internet-connected high-power EV Charging Stations (EVCSs). By distorting power grid fre…
Risk-Aware Security-Constrained Unit Commitment: Taming the Curse of Real-Time Volatility and Consumer Exposure
Daniel Bienstock, Yury Dvorkin, Cheng Guo +2
We propose an enhancement to wholesale electricity markets whereby the exposure of consumers to increasingly large and volatile consumer payments arising as a byproduct of volatile…
Causative Cyberattacks on Online Learning-based Automated Demand Response Systems
Samrat Acharya, Yury Dvorkin, Ramesh Karri
Power utilities are adopting Automated Demand Response (ADR) to replace the costly fuel-fired generators and to preempt congestion during peak electricity demand. Similarly, third-…
A Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Electricity Markets: A NYISO Case Study
Robert Ferrando, Laurent Pagnier, Robert Mieth +4
This paper addresses the challenge of efficiently solving the optimal power flow problem in real-time electricity markets. The proposed solution, named Physics-Informed Market-Awar…
Data-Driven Inverse Optimization for Marginal Offer Price Recovery in Electricity Markets
Zhirui Liang, Yury Dvorkin
This paper presents a data-driven inverse optimization (IO) approach to recover the marginal offer prices of generators in a wholesale energy market. By leveraging underlying marke…
Operational and Economy-Wide Impacts of Compound Cyberattacks and Extreme Weather Events on Electric Power Networks
Charalampos Avraam, Luis Ceferino, Yury Dvorkin
The growing frequencies of extreme weather events and cyberattacks give rise to a novel threat where a malicious cyber actor aims to disrupt stressed components of critical infrast…
Granular Compensation, Information, and Carbon Pricing Promote DER Deployment
Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan, Burçin Ünel, Yury Dvorkin
The socially efficient deployment of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), e.g., rooftop solar, depends on the underlying retail electricity policies. Current debates on DER policie…
Weather-Driven Flexibility Reserve Procurement: A NYISO Offshore Wind Power Case Study
Zhirui Liang, Robert Mieth, Yury Dvorkin +1
The growing penetration of variable renewable energy sources (VRES) requires additional flexibility reserve to ensure reliable power system operations. Current industry practice ty…
Markovian Decentralized Ensemble Control for Demand Response
Guanze Peng, Robert Mieth, Deepjyoti Deka +1
With the advancement in smart grid and smart energy devices, demand response becomes one of the most economic and feasible solutions to ease the load stress of the power grids duri…
Machine Learning for Electricity Market Clearing
Laurent Pagnier, Robert Ferrando, Yury Dvorkin +1
This paper seeks to design a machine learning twin of the optimal power flow (OPF) optimization, which is used in market-clearing procedures by wholesale electricity markets. The m…
Outing Power Outages: Real-time and Predictive Socio-demographic Analytics for New York City
Samuel Eckstrom, Graham Murphy, Eileen Ye +3
Electrical outages continue to occur despite technological innovations and improvements to electric power distribution infrastructure. In this paper, we describe a tool that was de…
Inequitable Access to EV Charging Infrastructure
Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan, Sara Price, Charalampos Avraam +1
Access to and affordability of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure are the two prominent barriers for EV adoption. While major efforts are underway in the United States t…
Electricity Tariff Design via Lens of Energy Justice
Hafiz Anwar Ullah Khan, Burcin Unel, Yury Dvorkin
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) can significantly affect the net social benefit in power systems, raising concerns pertaining to distributive justice, equity, and fairness. Ele…
Operation-Adversarial Scenario Generation
Zhirui Liang, Robert Mieth, Yury Dvorkin
This paper proposes a modified conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN) model to generate net load scenarios for power systems that are statistically credible, conditioned…
Inertia Pricing in Stochastic Electricity Markets
Zhirui Liang, Robert Mieth, Yury Dvorkin
Maintaining the stability of renewable-dominant power systems requires the procurement of virtual inertia services from non-synchronous resources (e.g., batteries, wind turbines) i…
Cyber Insurance Against Cyberattacks on Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Samrat Acharya, Robert Mieth, Charalambos Konstantinou +2
Cyberattacks in the energy sector are commonplace. Load-altering cyberattacks launched via the manipulations of high-wattage appliances and assets are particularly alarming, as the…
Electricity and Reserve Pricing in Chance-Constrained Electricity Markets with Asymmetric Balancing Reserve Policies
Alvaro Gonzalez-Castellanos, Anton Hinneck, Robert Mieth +2
Recently, chance-constrained stochastic electricity market designs have been proposed to address the shortcomings of scenario-based stochastic market designs. In particular, the us…
Risk-Aware Dimensioning and Procurement of Contingency Reserve
Robert Mieth, Yury Dvorkin, Miguel A. Ortega-Vazquez
Current contingency reserve criteria ignore the likelihood of individual contingencies and, thus, their impact on system reliability and risk. This paper develops an iterative appr…
The Value of Operational Coordination for EV Fleet Aggregators
Oluwaseun Oladimeji, David Pozo, Yury Dvorkin
The integration of energy systems such as electricity and gas grids and power and thermal grids can bring significant benefits in terms of system security, reliability, and reduced…
Impact of Electric Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand on Grid Operation
Oluwaseun Oladimeji, Alvaro Gonzalez-Castellanos, David Pozo +2
Given the rise of electric vehicle (EV) adoption, supported by government policies and dropping technology prices, new challenges arise in the modeling and operation of electric tr…
Privacy-Aware Load Ensemble Control: A Linearly-Solvable MDP Approach
Ali Hassan, Deepjyoti Deka, Yury Dvorkin
Demand response (DR) programs engage distributed demand-side resources, e.g., controllable residential and commercial loads, in providing ancillary services for electric power syst…
TSO-DSO Operational Planning Coordination through "-Proximal" Surrogate Lagrangian Relaxation
Mikhail Bragin, Yury Dvorkin
The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), located at the Distribution System Operator (DSO) level, bring new opportunities as well as new challenges to the operatio…
On the Feasibility of Load-Changing Attacks in Power Systems during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Juan Ospina, XiaoRui Liu, Charalambos Konstantinou +1
The electric power grid is a complex cyberphysical energy system (CPES) in which information and communication technologies (ICT) are integrated into the operations and services of…