TY - GEN
T1 - Convex optimization for joint expansion planning of natural gas and power systems
AU - Borraz-Sánchez, Conrado
AU - Bent, Russell
AU - Backhaus, Scott
AU - Blumsack, Seth
AU - Hijazi, Hassan
AU - Van Hentenryck, Pascal
PY - 2016/3/7
Y1 - 2016/3/7
N2 - Within the energy sector, two of the most tightly coupled systems are natural gas and electric power. The recent advent of cheap gas extraction technologies have only driven these systems more tightly together. Despite their interconnections, in many areas of the world these systems are operated and managed in isolation. This separation is due to a number of reasons and challenges, ranging from technological (problems involving connected systems are difficult to solve) to political and commercial (prevention of monopolies, lack of communication, market forces, etc.). However, this separation can lead to a number of undesirable outcomes, such as what the northeastern United States experienced during the winter of 2013/2014. In this paper, we develop approaches to address the technological reasons for separation. We consider the problem of expanding and designing coupled natural gas and electric power systems to meet increased coincident demand on both systems. Our approach utilizes recent advances in convex modeling of gas and power systems to develop a computationally tractable optimization formulation.
AB - Within the energy sector, two of the most tightly coupled systems are natural gas and electric power. The recent advent of cheap gas extraction technologies have only driven these systems more tightly together. Despite their interconnections, in many areas of the world these systems are operated and managed in isolation. This separation is due to a number of reasons and challenges, ranging from technological (problems involving connected systems are difficult to solve) to political and commercial (prevention of monopolies, lack of communication, market forces, etc.). However, this separation can lead to a number of undesirable outcomes, such as what the northeastern United States experienced during the winter of 2013/2014. In this paper, we develop approaches to address the technological reasons for separation. We consider the problem of expanding and designing coupled natural gas and electric power systems to meet increased coincident demand on both systems. Our approach utilizes recent advances in convex modeling of gas and power systems to develop a computationally tractable optimization formulation.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2016.317
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2016.317
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84975507065
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2536
EP - 2545
BT - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
A2 - Sprague, Ralph H.
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
Y2 - 5 January 2016 through 8 January 2016
ER -