power system resilience

Formulations and Valid Inequalities for Optimal Black Start Allocation in Power Systems

  • Ignacio Aravena
  • Shmuel Oren
  • Deepak Rajan
  • Georgios Patsakis
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Energy Tags , , ,

    The restoration of a power system after an extended blackout starts around units with enhanced technical capabilities, referred to as black start units (BSUs). We examine the planning problem of optimally allocating these units on the grid subject to a budget constraint. We present a mixed integer programming model based on current literature in power … Read more

    A scalable mixed-integer decomposition approach for optimal power system restoration

  • Ignacio Aravena
  • Shmuel Oren
  • Deepak Rajan
  • Georgios Patsakis
  • Jennifer Rios
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Linear Programming, Branch and Cut Algorithms, Energy Tags , , ,

    The optimal restoration problem lies at the foundation of the evaluation and improvement of resilience in power systems. In this paper we present a scalable decomposition algorithm, based on the integer L-shaped method, for solving this problem for realistic power systems. The algorithm works by partitioning the problem into a master problem and a slave … Read more