Technical Conference on Increasing Market and Planning Efficiency through Improved Software

Session T1

Addressing Uncertainties through Improved Pricing and Reserve Product Design
Yonghong Chen, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)

On the Formulation Dependence of Convex Hull Pricing
Feng Zhao, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)
Dane Schiro, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)
Jinye Zhao, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)
Tongxin Zheng, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)

Modeling of Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Capacity Expansion
John Meyer, New York ISO (Rensselaer, NY)

Deploying Modernized Applications in a Secure and Compliant Manner
Jeff Price, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)

Session T2

Generator Performance Evaluation at ISO New England
Slava Maslennikov, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)
Izudin Lelic, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)
Kory Haag, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)
Xiaochuan Luo, ISO New England (Holyoke, MA)

Pumped Storage Optimization in Day-ahead and Real-time Market under Uncertainty
Bing Huang, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Arezou Ghesmati, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Yonghong Chen, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Ross Baldick, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Rui Bo, Missouri University of Science and Technology (Rolla, MO)

Integration of Storage Resources in the CAISO's System
Guillermo Bautista Alderete, California ISO (Folsom, CA)
Rahul Kalaskar, California ISO (Folsom, CA)

HIPPO Concurrent Optimizer – Enhanced Simultaneous Feasibility Test (SFT) and Migration to Private Cloud
Jesse Holzer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Joanna Wu, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Yonghong Chen, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Arun Veeramany, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Feng Pan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Ruchi Rajasekhar, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)

Session T3

Co-located Hybrid Resources with Shared Limited Injection Modeling
Matthew Musto, New York ISO (Rensselaer, NY)

Market Participation Challenges and Potential Modeling Options for Hybrid Resources
Nikita Singhal, Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
Erik Ela, Electric Power Research Institute (Denver, CO)

From Today’s Hierarchical Control to End-to-end Flexible Interactive Electricity Services
Marija Ilic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Pedro Carvalho, Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)

Session T4

Pricing in Dynamic ISO Markets with Unit Commitment
Richard O’Neill, ARPA-E (Silver Spring, MD)
Yonghong Chen, (Carmel, IN)

Efficient Prices under Uncertainty and Non-Convexity
Brent Eldridge, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Jacob Mays, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Bernard Knueven, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)

Convex Hull Pricing Considering Practical Market Features
Yongpei Guan, University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)

Session W1

Case Studies of Transmission Topology Optimization to Efficiently Mitigate Congestion and Overloads
Pablo Ruiz, NewGrid, Inc. and The Brattle Group (Cambridge, MA)
Xiaoguang Li, NewGrid, Inc (Cambridge, MA)

Grid Enhancing Technologies and Renewable Integration
T. Bruce Tsuchida, The Brattle Group (Boston, MA)
Jay Caspary, GridStrategies (Washington, DC)

Break

Session W2

Agent-based Storage Valuation and Market Participation Analysis
Bolun Xu, Columbia University (New York, NY)
Xin Qin, Columbia University (New York, NY)
Ningkun Zheng, Columbia University (New York, NY)

Modeling and Valuation of Pumped Storage Hydropower Resources
Majid Heidarifar, Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
Nikita Singhal, Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
Aidan Tuohy, Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
Russ Philbrick, Polaris Systems Optimization (Seattle, WA)
Erik Ela, Electric Power Research Institute (Denver, CO)
Pablo Ruiz, NewGrid (Cambridge, MA)

Multi-Stage Modeling with Recourse Decision for Solving Stochastic Complementarity Problems with an Application in Energy
Pattanun Chanpiwat, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Steven A. Gabriel, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)

Session W3

Primary Frequency Response Reserve Requirements with Application to ERCOT
Manuel Garcia, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)
Ross Baldick, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
Felipe Wilches-Bernal, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)

Coordinated Ramping Product and Regulation Reserve Procurements in CAISO and MISO using Multi-Scale Probabilistic Solar Power Forecasts (Pro2R)
Venkat Krishnan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Benjamin Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Jie Zhang, University of Texas Dallas (Dallas, TX)
Carlo Siebenschuh, IBM (Yorktown Heights, NY)
Ibrahim Krad, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Binghui Li, University of Texas Dallas (Dallas, TX)
Paul Edwards, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)

Flexibility Auction: A Framework for Managing Imbalance Risk
Evangelia Spyrou, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Robin Broder Hytowitz, Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA)
Ben Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Mohamed Al-Ashery, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Mengmeng Cai, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Erik Ela, Electric Power Research Institute (Denver, CO)
Yingchen Zhang, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)

Session W4

Stochastic Look Ahead Commitment for Managing Grid Uncertainty
Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Bernard Knueven, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Trevor Werho, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Mohammad Faqiry, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Manuel Garcia, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)
Yonghong Chen, Midcontinent ISO (Carmel, IN)
Roger Treinen, Nexant, Inc. (Sacramento, CA)
Vijay Vittal, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

Issues with Near Optimal Solutions and Near Identical Generators in Unit Commitment
Dominic Yang, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Jonathan Schrock, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
Ben Knueven, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Jim Ostrowski, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
Jean-Paul Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA)

UnitCommitment.jl: A Julia/JuMP Optimization Package for Security-Constrained Unit Commitment
Alinson Santos Xavier, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)
Feng Qiu, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)

State-of-the-Art Techniques for Large-Scale Stochastic Unit Commitment
Bernard Knueven,  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
James Ostrowski, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
Jean-Paul Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA)
David L. Woodruff, University of California at Davis (Davis, CA)

Session H1

ABSCoRES, A Novel Application of Banking Scoring and Rating for Electricity Systems
Alberto J. Lamadrid, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Audun Botterud, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Parv Venkitasubramaniam, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Marija Ilic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Shalinee Kishore, Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)
Bo Chen, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)
Jhi-Young Joo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA)
Shijia Zhao, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)

A New Swing-Contract Design for Wholesale Power Markets
Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State University (Ames, IA)

Market-based Resource Adequacy Assessment Framework: The Impact of Market Design on Long-run Resource Investment and Reliability
Jonghwan Kwon, Argonne National Lab (Lemont, IL)
Todd Levin, Argonne National Lab (Lemont, IL)
Zhi Zhou, Argonne National Lab (Lemont, IL)
Audun Botterud, Argonne National Lab (Lemont, IL)

Session H2

HELICS: Integrated Distribution and Transmission Planning
Jason Fuller, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Henry Huang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Trevor Hardy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)

Linear Decision Rules with Performance Guarantees for Scalable Multi-Stage Generation Planning
Vladimir Dvorkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Dharik Mallapragada, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Audun Botterud, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

Co-Optimized Planning of Generation and Transmission
Kai Van Horn, National Grid (Charlottesville, VA)
Russ Philbrick, Polaris Systems Optimization (Seattle, WA)
Aleksandr Rudkevich, Newton Energy Group (Cambridge, MA)

Two and Three-Stage Scenario Based Modeling and Optimization for Wind and Storage Expansion Planning
Devon Sigler,  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Michael Kratochvil, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
Jonathan Maack, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
David E. Stewart, University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)

Session H3

Open Source Production Cost Modeling at Scale
Jean-Paul Watson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore, CA)
Bernard Knueven, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO)
Darryl Melander, Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM)

Creating Large Scale 8760 Solved AC Power Flow Models for Transmission Planning Studies from Production Cost Models using PROBE and TARA
Brian Thomas, PowerGEM (Clifton Park, NY)
Boris Gisin, PowerGEM (Clifton Park, NY)

A High-efficiency and Numerically Robust Computing Tool for Power Flows and Dynamic Simulation
Rui Yao, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)
Feng Qiu, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)
Yichen Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)

Absence of Spurious Local Trajectories in Time-Varying Optimal Power Flow
Salar Fattahi, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Cédric Josz, Columbia University (New York, NY)
Yuhao Ding, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Julie Mulvaney-Kemp, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Reza Mohammadi, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Javad Lavaei, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Somayeh Sojoudi, University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Session H4

Verifying Global Optimality of Candidate Solutions to Polynomial Optimization Problems using a Determinant Relaxation Hierarchy
 Cédric Josz, Columbia University (New York, NY)

Solving Large-scale Stochastic, Security-constrained, Multi-period Grid Optimization Problems with the Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO) Toolkit 
Shrirang Abhyankar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Slaven Peles, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)
Asher Mancinelli, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA)  

Distributed Computing and Cloud Software: Applying Lessons from the Internet Era to the Bulk Power System
Cody Smith, Camus Energy (San Francisco, CA)
Astrid Atkinson, Camus Energy (San Francisco, CA)

Natural Gas Infrastructure Development in North America under Integrated Markets
Charalampos Avraam, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Daniel Chu, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Sauleh Siddiqui, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)