Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Workshop theme

The massive integration of renewable energy sources within the electric power system calls for an in-depth revision of the way the system is operated. Indeed, cheap renewable energy sources are typically located away from the consumption centers, have little or no inertia, are often connected at lower voltage levels, and are driven by complex spatiotemporal stochastic weather processes. At the bulk level, this leads to extremely fast and difficult-to-predict changes in the net demand, resulting in needs for faster frequency control, more efficient power balancing mechanisms, and more effective ways of controlling the flows within the interconnected transmission system. At the lower voltage levels of distribution networks, this leads to novel needs for voltage and power flow control and even the emergence of stability issues. It is also necessary to revisit the way operation and control of transmission and distribution systems is coordinated. Moreover, the future power system must integrate electric vehicles, smart-buildings, micro-grids and prosumer communities, and strengthen the interactions with other critical infrastructures, such as transportation, water, gas, and ICT.

In order to maintain a desired level of reliability of electricity supply, while minimizing the socio-economic costs of achieving this, a combination of opportunities should be synergized. These concern electric storage, demand flexibility, power electronics, sensors, and market mechanisms, and they will strongly rely on recent progresses in methodological areas pertaining to data analytics, stochastic and distributed control, dynamic contracts, inference, learning and approximate optimal control, mathematical programming, and multilevel methods.

The workshop will provide an overview of recent developments and open questions in these areas. Possible topics within the workshop include:

Reliability and Security of bulk power systems: modeling of uncertainties and threats in operational time-scales; reliability and security targets and criteria for short-term decision making; principles and methods for coordination between day-2, day-1, intra-day, real-time markets and TSO decision-making; multi-TSO issues.
Coordinated operation and control of micro-grids, distribution systems, and transmission systems: hierarchical and distributed control approaches; crowdsourcing; data and model sharing; performance verification.
Socio-economic incentives for producers and consumers: energy markets; flexibility and demand response markets; reliability markets; day-ahead vs. intraday vs. real-time markets; fairness vs. efficiency; tariffs and compensation mechanisms; cost/benefit distribution.
Interconnected infrastructures (transportation, water, gas, communications, power): models and solutions for handling cyber-security and adverse behaviors; resilience vs. reliability vs. security.
Integration of electric vehicles, smart buildings, storage devices, power electronics, and smart appliances: modeling issues; possible uses for balancing and flow control; provision of inertia and reactive power for voltage-, angle- and frequency-stability.
Coordination of operation, asset management, and system planning: suitable and tractable time-scale decompositions; coherency of decisions at different time-scales; models and proxies of shorter time-scale behaviors within longer time-scale decision-making models.

Applications for this workshop are now closed

The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:

The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/R014604/1.

Timetable

Monday 7th January 2019
10:30 to 11:20	Registration and morning coffee	No Room Required
11:20 to 11:30	Welcome from David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute)	No Room Required
11:30 to 11:30	AM - Problems vs Methods	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Warren Powell Princeton University A Unified Framework for Stochastic Optimization in Energy	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Westminster College	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Andrew Haslett Energy Technologies Institute Creating user value through mathematics – the challenge of hidden states	Room 1
13:30 to 13:30	PM - Industrial Needs Expression	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Patrick Panciatici RTE (R)evolution of large electrical systems: Needs and Challenges	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Hung-po Chao PJM Electricity market reform to enhance the energy market pricing mechanism: observations from PJM	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Welcome Wine Reception at INI	No Room Required

Tuesday 8th January 2019
09:00 to 09:00	AM - Methods vs Problems	No Room Required
09:00 to 10:00	Ben Godfrey None / Other Market design for flexible distribution networks	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Gilles Louppe Université de Liège Automated parameter inference and data modelling with deep learning	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Javad Lavaei University of California, Berkeley Computational Methods for Nonlinear Power Operational Problems: Convex Reformulations and Near-Linear Time Algorithms	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Westminster College	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Juan Miguel Morales González Universidad de Málaga Electricity demand forecasting and bidding via data-driven inverse optimization	Room 1
13:30 to 13:30	PM - Demand Dispatch & Microgrids	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Anna Scaglione Arizona State University On modeling dispatchable loads in grid operation: the good, the bad and the ugly	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Jean-Yves Le Boudec EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Real-time operation of micro-grids	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Poster session	Discussion Room

Wednesday 9th January 2019
09:00 to 09:00	AM - Markets & System Operation	No Room Required
09:00 to 10:00	Rene Aid Université Paris-Dauphine Optimal Electricity Demand Response Contracting	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Lang Tong Cornell University Towards seemless operation: a new look at interface scheduling and market operation	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Anthony Papavasiliou Université Catholique de Louvain Transmission capacity allocation in zonal electricity markets	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Westminster College	No Room Required
13:30 to 18:00	Free afternoon	No Room Required
19:30 to 22:00	Formal Dinner at Christs College	No Room Required

Thursday 10th January 2019
09:00 to 10:00	Florian Doerfler ETH Zürich Real-time feedback optimization on the power flow manifold	Room 1
09:00 to 09:00	AM - Optimization & Control	No Room Required
10:00 to 11:00	Andrea Simonetto IBM Research Time-Varying Optimization: Algorithms and Applications in Power Systems	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Emiliano Dall'anese Feedback-based online algorithms for time-varying optimization: theory and applications in power systems	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Westminster College	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Andy Sun Georgia Institute of Technology A new distributed algorithm for nonconvex network flow problems with convergence guarantees	Room 1
13:30 to 13:30	PM - Optimization & Control	No Room Required
14:30 to 15:30	Pär Holmberg None / Other Central- versus Self-Dispatch in Electricity Markets	Room 1
15:30 to 16:00	Afternoon Tea	No Room Required
16:00 to 17:00	Sean Meyn University of Florida Irrational Agents and the Power Grid	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Orcun Karaca ETH Zürich Core-Selecting Mechanisms in Electricity Markets	Room 1

Friday 11th January 2019
09:00 to 09:00	AM - Storage & Data analytics	No Room Required
09:00 to 10:00	Clemence Alasseur EDF, France A mean-field game model for management of distributed storages for the power system	Room 1
10:00 to 11:00	Simon Tindemans Delft University of Technology Optimal dispatch of heterogeneous batteries to maximise security of supply	Room 1
11:00 to 11:30	Morning Coffee	No Room Required
11:30 to 12:30	Meng Wang High-dimensional data analytics using low-dimensional models in power systems	Room 1
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch at Westminster College	No Room Required
13:30 to 13:30	PM - Broadening the Perspective	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:30	Pierre Gaillard Bandit algorithms for power consumption control	Room 1
14:30 to 15:30	Ana Busic INRIA ; John Moriarty Queen Mary University of London ; Louis Wehenkel Université de Liège ; Pierre Pinson Danmarks Tekniske Universitet ; Steven Low CALTECH (California Institute of Technology) Wrap-up discussion session	Room 1

Flexible operation and advanced control for energy systems

Organisers

Ana Busic INRIA
Steven Low CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Pierre Pinson Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Louis Wehenkel Université de Liège

Speakers

Rene Aid Université Paris-Dauphine
Clemence Alasseur EDF, France
Ana Busic INRIA
Hung-po Chao PJM
Emiliano Dall'anese
Florian Doerfler ETH Zürich
Pierre Gaillard
Ben Godfrey None / Other
Andrew Haslett Energy Technologies Institute
Pär Holmberg None / Other
Orcun Karaca ETH Zürich
Javad Lavaei University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Yves Le Boudec EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gilles Louppe Université de Liège
Steven Low CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Sean Meyn University of Florida
Juan Miguel Morales González Universidad de Málaga
John Moriarty Queen Mary University of London
Patrick Panciatici RTE
Anthony Papavasiliou Université Catholique de Louvain
Pierre Pinson Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Warren Powell Princeton University
Anna Scaglione Arizona State University
Andrea Simonetto IBM Research
Andy Sun Georgia Institute of Technology
Simon Tindemans Delft University of Technology
Lang Tong Cornell University
Meng Wang
Louis Wehenkel Université de Liège

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Participants

Rene Aid Université Paris-Dauphine
Clemence Alasseur EDF, France
Eddie Anderson University of Sydney
James Anderson CALTECH (California Institute of Technology); University of Oxford
Angelos Aveklouris Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Janusz Bialek Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Jethro Browell University of Strathclyde
Ana Busic INRIA
Rui Carvalho Durham University
Hung-po Chao PJM
Michael Coulon University of Sussex
Jochen Cremer Imperial College London
James Cruise Heriot-Watt University
Emiliano Dall'anese
Stefanos Delikaraoglou ETH Zürich
Chris Dent University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
Florian Doerfler ETH Zürich
Sergio Elizondo Heriot-Watt University
Michael Evans Imperial College London
Pierre Gaillard
Ben Godfrey None / Other
Andrew Haslett Energy Technologies Institute
Adrian Hauswirth ETH Zürich
Pär Holmberg None / Other
Wasim Jabed Visvesvaraya Technological University
Maria Jacob University of Reading; Imperial College London
Orcun Karaca ETH Zürich
Efthymios Karangelos Université de Liège
Jalal Kazempour Technical University of Denmark
Frank Kelly University of Cambridge
Javad Lavaei University of California, Berkeley
Jean-Yves Le Boudec EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gilles Louppe Université de Liège
Steven Low CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)
Jan Maciejowski University of Cambridge; Nanyang Technological University
Randall Martyr Queen Mary University of London
Ben Mestel The Open University
Sean Meyn University of Florida
Juan Miguel Morales González Universidad de Málaga
John Moriarty Queen Mary University of London
Tommaso Nesti Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
David Newbery University of Cambridge
Patrick Panciatici RTE
Anthony Papavasiliou Université Catholique de Louvain
Andy Philpott University of Auckland
Pierre Pinson Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Warren Powell Princeton University
David Pozo None / Other
Danny Ralph University of Cambridge
Anna Scaglione Arizona State University
Andrea Simonetto IBM Research
Somayeh Sojoudi University of California, Berkeley
Andy Sun Georgia Institute of Technology
Emma Tegling KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Simon Tindemans Delft University of Technology
Lang Tong Cornell University
Dan Travers University of Sheffield; None / Other
Orlando Mauricio Valarezo Rivera Shandong University; Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Harry van der Weijde University of Edinburgh; The Alan Turing Institute
Andreas Venzke Technical University of Denmark
Almut Veraart Imperial College London
Meng Wang
Joe Warrington ETH Zürich
Louis Wehenkel Université de Liège
Stan Zachary Heriot-Watt University; University of Edinburgh
Alessandro Zocca CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)