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Hauptverfasser: Boateng, Michael A., Bent, Russell, Misra, Sidhant, Pareek, Parikshit, Van Hentenryck, Pascal, Molzahn, Daniel
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14725
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author Boateng, Michael A.
Bent, Russell
Misra, Sidhant
Pareek, Parikshit
Van Hentenryck, Pascal
Molzahn, Daniel
author_facet Boateng, Michael A.
Bent, Russell
Misra, Sidhant
Pareek, Parikshit
Van Hentenryck, Pascal
Molzahn, Daniel
contents DC Optimal Power Flow (DCOPF) is widely utilized in power system operations due to its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, its lossless, reactive power-agnostic model often yields dispatches that are infeasible under practical operating scenarios such as the nonlinear AC power flow (ACPF) equations. While theoretical analysis demonstrates that DCOPF solutions are inherently AC-infeasible, their widespread industry adoption suggests substantial practical utility. This paper develops a unified DCOPF-ACPF pipeline to recover AC feasible solutions from DCOPF-based dispatches. The pipeline uses four DCOPF variants and applies AC feasibility recovery using both distributed slack allocation and PV/PQ switching. The main objective is to identify the most effective pipeline for restoring AC feasibility. Evaluation across over 10,000 dispatch scenarios on various test cases demonstrates that the structured ACPF model yields solutions that satisfy both the ACPF equations, and all engineering inequality constraints. In a 13,659 bus case, the mean absolute error and cost differences between DCOPF and ACOPF are reduced by 75% and 93%, respectively, compared to conventional single slack bus methods. Under extreme loading conditions, the pipeline reduces inequality constraint violations by a factor of 3 to 5.
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spellingShingle Towards AC Feasibility of DCOPF Dispatch
Boateng, Michael A.
Bent, Russell
Misra, Sidhant
Pareek, Parikshit
Van Hentenryck, Pascal
Molzahn, Daniel
Systems and Control
DC Optimal Power Flow (DCOPF) is widely utilized in power system operations due to its simplicity and computational efficiency. However, its lossless, reactive power-agnostic model often yields dispatches that are infeasible under practical operating scenarios such as the nonlinear AC power flow (ACPF) equations. While theoretical analysis demonstrates that DCOPF solutions are inherently AC-infeasible, their widespread industry adoption suggests substantial practical utility. This paper develops a unified DCOPF-ACPF pipeline to recover AC feasible solutions from DCOPF-based dispatches. The pipeline uses four DCOPF variants and applies AC feasibility recovery using both distributed slack allocation and PV/PQ switching. The main objective is to identify the most effective pipeline for restoring AC feasibility. Evaluation across over 10,000 dispatch scenarios on various test cases demonstrates that the structured ACPF model yields solutions that satisfy both the ACPF equations, and all engineering inequality constraints. In a 13,659 bus case, the mean absolute error and cost differences between DCOPF and ACOPF are reduced by 75% and 93%, respectively, compared to conventional single slack bus methods. Under extreme loading conditions, the pipeline reduces inequality constraint violations by a factor of 3 to 5.
title Towards AC Feasibility of DCOPF Dispatch
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14725