3 Research Projects

Recent Research Projects:

National Science Foundation

1. National Science Foundation – Award 1548015. EAGER: Toward Renewable Dominated Electric Energy Systems (RENDES). Principal investigator. 2015-2018.
2. National Science Foundation – Award 1808169. EPCN: Solving Electricity-Expansion Problems Efficiently via Decomposition (SEEPED). Co-Principal investigator. 2018-2023.
3. National Science Foundation – Award 2243228. GOALI: Coordination of Resilience Interventions by Consumers and the Supply Utility (CRICSU). Principal investigator. 2023-2026.

Department of Energy

1. ARPA-E – A Grid that’s Risk-Aware for Clean Electricity – GRACE, 2020-2024.
   • Stochastic scheduling of generating units with weekly energy storage: A hybrid decomposition approach
   • Stochastic Unit Commitment: Model Reduction via Learning

National Laboratories

1. Argonne – Convex relaxations to address the unit commitment problem with AC constraints and convex relaxations to address the unit commitment problem with natural-gas constraints, 2020.
   • AC Network-Constrained Unit Commitment via Conic Relaxation and Convex Programming.
   • AC Network-Constrained Unit Commitment via Relaxation and Decomposition.
2. Argonne – Security-Constrained AC Unit Commitment, 2023
3. Argonne – Risk Mitigation of Anticipated Threats, 2024

Industry

American Electric Power

1. Optimal siting of batteries in distribution systems to enhance reliability, 2020.
   • Optimal siting of batteries in distribution systems to enhance reliability, 2020.
   • Optimal battery sizing for frequency regulation and energy arbitrage, 2021.
   • Co-optimizing the siting and sizing of batteries and the siting of isolation devices in distribution systems, 2021.
   • Energy Storage: Improving system reliability, deferring network upgrading, taking advantage of markets, and beyond, 2021.

Ford Motor Company

1. Quantifying the Benefit of Electric Vehicle Aggregators in the Electricity Market, 2023-2025.

Consulting:

1. Coordinated but decentralized operations of the Transmission System Operator and Distribution System Operators (OPTESO), 2023-2023.