Correcting Optimal Transmission Switching for AC Power Flows

Clayton Barrows; Seth Blumsack; Paul Hines

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2014.642

Correcting Optimal Transmission Switching for AC Power Flows

Clayton Barrows, Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines

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Abstract

Optimal Transmission Switching (OTS) has demonstrated significant savings potential on test systems when formulated in a linearized DC power flow framework. OTS solutions generated from DC models, however, are not guaranteed to produce a feasible AC dispatch. Additionally, whether ACfeasible OTS solutions will generate cost savings similar to those suggested in the DC model is not guaranteed. We present a method to correct OTS solutions obtained in the DC model to ensure feasible AC power flow solutions. When applied to the RTS-96 benchmark network, the method achieves results that are both AC feasible and generate significant system cost reductions - in some cases larger than the cost reductions suggested by the DC OTS.

Original language	American English
Pages	2374-2379
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.642 https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2014.642
State	Published - 2014
Event	47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014 - Waikoloa, HI, United States Duration: 6 Jan 2014 → 9 Jan 2014

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Conference	47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa, HI
Period	6/01/14 → 9/01/14

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NREL/CP-6A20-62399

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