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4333. Unitcommitment.jl – An Open Source Julia Software Package to Accelerate Power System Research

Contributed abstract in session MC-22: Advancements in energy system optimization and analysis tools, stream Energy Management.

Monday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 81 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Feng Qiu
Argonne National Laboratory

Abstract

Unit commitment (UC) is one of the fundamental optimization problems in power system research, on which many essential grid applications are built, such as operations, planning, and markets. Many power system research projects involve the development of a UC model or its variant as a building block. Currently, most researchers prefer to write their own UC codes and use public data with their own tweaks. Although this approach allows authors more control over the code, the disadvantages are significant: it wastes time on reinventing the wheel, does not incorporate the state-of-the-art UC models/algorithms, and makes it difficult to benchmark with other work due to differences in implementation and datasets. In this work, we introduce an open-source Julia software package for UC-related research. The package not only implements state-of-the-art models/algorithms for UC problems but also provides great extensibility for secondary development and numerous test instances for benchmarking. This presentation will introduce the UC package and illustrate how it can be used to accelerate power system research.

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Status: accepted

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