Planning Curtailment of Renewable Generation in Power Grids. Bandyopadhyay, S.; Kumar, P.; and Arya, V. In
Paper abstract bibtex The increasing penetration of renewable sources like solar energy add new dimensions in planning power grid operations. We study the problem of curtailing a subset of prosumers generating solar power with the twin goals of being close to a target collection and maintaining fairness across prosumers. The problem is complicated by the uncertainty in the amount of energy fed-in by each prosumer and the large problem size in terms of number of prosumers. To meet these challenges, we propose an algorithm based on the Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit problem with an approximate Knapsack based oracle. With real-data on solar panel output across multiple prosumers, we are able to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.
@inproceedings {icaps16-108,
track = {Applications Track},
title = {Planning Curtailment of Renewable Generation in Power Grids},
url = {http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICAPS/ICAPS16/paper/view/13050},
author = {Sambaran Bandyopadhyay and Pratyush Kumar and Vijay Arya},
abstract = {The increasing penetration of renewable sources like solar energy add new dimensions in planning power grid operations. We study the problem of curtailing a subset of prosumers generating solar power with the twin goals of being close to a target collection and maintaining fairness across prosumers. The problem is complicated by the uncertainty in the amount of energy fed-in by each prosumer and the large problem size in terms of number of prosumers. To meet these challenges, we propose an algorithm based on the Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit problem with an approximate Knapsack based oracle. With real-data on solar panel output across multiple prosumers, we are able to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.},
keywords = {Evaluation; testing; and validation of P&S applications,Description and modeling of novel application domains,Integration of multiple P&S techniques; or of P&S techniques with techniques from other areas}
}