An Augmented Lagrangian Method on GPU for Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow

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Main Authors: Pacaud, François, Nurkanović, Armin, Pozharskiy, Anton, Montoison, Alexis, Shin, Sungho
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Published: 2025
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author Pacaud, François
Nurkanović, Armin
Pozharskiy, Anton
Montoison, Alexis
Shin, Sungho
author_facet Pacaud, François
Nurkanović, Armin
Pozharskiy, Anton
Montoison, Alexis
Shin, Sungho
contents We present a new algorithm for solving large-scale security-constrained optimal power flow in polar form (AC-SCOPF). The method builds on Nonlinearly Constrained augmented Lagrangian (NCL), an augmented Lagrangian method in which the subproblems are solved using an interior-point method. NCL has two key advantages for large-scale SC-OPF. First, NCL handles difficult problems such as infeasible ones or models with complementarity constraints. Second, the augmented Lagrangian term naturally regularizes the Newton linear systems within the interior-point method, enabling to solve the Newton systems with a pivoting-free factorization that can be efficiently parallelized on GPUs. We assess the performance of our implementation, called MadNCL, on large-scale corrective AC-SCOPFs, with complementarity constraints modeling the corrective actions. Numerical results show that MadNCL can solve AC-SCOPF with 500 buses and 256 contingencies fully on the GPU in less than 3 minutes, whereas Knitro takes more than 3 hours to find an equivalent solution.
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spellingShingle An Augmented Lagrangian Method on GPU for Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
Pacaud, François
Nurkanović, Armin
Pozharskiy, Anton
Montoison, Alexis
Shin, Sungho
Optimization and Control
We present a new algorithm for solving large-scale security-constrained optimal power flow in polar form (AC-SCOPF). The method builds on Nonlinearly Constrained augmented Lagrangian (NCL), an augmented Lagrangian method in which the subproblems are solved using an interior-point method. NCL has two key advantages for large-scale SC-OPF. First, NCL handles difficult problems such as infeasible ones or models with complementarity constraints. Second, the augmented Lagrangian term naturally regularizes the Newton linear systems within the interior-point method, enabling to solve the Newton systems with a pivoting-free factorization that can be efficiently parallelized on GPUs. We assess the performance of our implementation, called MadNCL, on large-scale corrective AC-SCOPFs, with complementarity constraints modeling the corrective actions. Numerical results show that MadNCL can solve AC-SCOPF with 500 buses and 256 contingencies fully on the GPU in less than 3 minutes, whereas Knitro takes more than 3 hours to find an equivalent solution.
title An Augmented Lagrangian Method on GPU for Security-Constrained AC Optimal Power Flow
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13333