Grid Optimization Competition Challenge 3 Problem Formulation

Technical Report · Tue Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2024

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2337844· OSTI ID:2337844

Holzer, Jesse T. ^[1]; Coffrin, Carleton J. ^[2]; DeMarco, Christopher ^[3]; Duthu, Ray ^[4]; Elbert, Stephen T. ^[1]; Eldridge, Brent C. ^[1]; Elgindy, Tarek ^[5]; Garcia, Manuel ^[2]; Greene, Scott L. ^[3]; Guo, Nongchao ^[5]; Hale, Elaine ^[5]; Lesieutre, Bernard ^[3]; Mak, Terrence W. ^[6]; McMillan, Colin ^[5]; Mittelmann, Hans ^[7]; Oh, Hyungseon ^[8]; O'Neill, Richard P. ^[4]; Overbye, Thomas J. ^[9]; Palmintier, Bryan ^[5]; Parker, Robbert ^[2] ; Safdarian, Farnaz ^[9]; Tbaileh, Ahmad ^[10]; Van Hentenryck, Pascal R. ^[11]; Veeramany, Arun ^[1]; Wangen, Steve ^[3]; Wert, Jessica L. ^[9]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
2. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
3. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
4. US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States)
5. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
6. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
7. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
8. Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., McLean, VA (United States)
9. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
10. ISO New England, Holyoke, MA (United States)
11. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). Georgia Tech Research Institute

This report contains the problem formulation for the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The Grid Optimization Competition is run by a team of researchers from a number of organizations, including the sponsor Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), lead organization Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and technical contributors from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Texas A&M University (TAMU), Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), University of Wisconsin (UW), and others. The GO Competition poses challenge problems in the field of power grid management, invites entrants to develop solvers for these problems, invokes the solvers on a set of problem instances using common hardware, ranks the solvers according to their performance, and awards prizes according to the rankings. The overall goal of the GO Competition is to spur innovative research on high impact and computationally challenging problems in power grid management from initial development through commercial deployment. Complete information about the GO Competition can be found online at [2]. The webpage covers previous Challenges, rules, timeline, registration information, data formats, scoring methods, computational platform information, information on supported solvers and languages, sponsor information, frequently asked questions, administrator contact information, publicly available problem instances, computer code for reading and evaluating problem and solution data, a sandbox for testing solvers, and a solver submission interface, results, and publications.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 2337844
• Report Number(s): PNNL--35792
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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