Maximizing Firm Wind Connection to Security Constrained Transmission Networks

Interdependent Security Game Design over Constrained Linear Influence Networks

In today's highly interconnected networks, security of the entities are often interdependent. This means security decisions of the agents are not only influenced by their own costs and constraints, but also are affected by their neighbors’ decisions. Game theory provides a rich set of tools to analyze such influence networks. In the game model, players try to maximize their utilities through se...

Maximizing residual capacity in connection-oriented networks

The following problem arises in the study of survivable connection-oriented networks. Given a demandmatrix to be routed between nodes, we want to route all demands, so that the residual capacity given by the difference between link capacity and link flow is maximized. Each demand can use only one path. Therefore, the flow is modeled as nonbifurcated multicommodity flow. We call the considered p...

Incorporating Wind Power Generation And Demand Response into Security-Constrained Unit Commitment

Wind generation with an uncertain nature poses many challenges in grid integration and secure operation of power system. One of these operation problems is the unit commitment. Demand Response (DR) can be defined as the changes in electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption patterns in response to the changes in the price of electricity over time. Further, DR can be also d...

A Transmission Expansion Planning Model for Maximizing Merchant Investment

Security-constrained transmission planning:A mixed-integer disjunctive approach

We extend a static mixed integer disjunctive (MID) transmission expansion planning model so as to deal with circuit contingency criterion. The model simultaneously represents the network constraints for base case and each selected circuit contingency. The MID approach allows a commercial optimization solver to achieve and prove solution optimality. The proposed approach is applied to a regional...