Transmission Network Expansion Planning: Bridging the gap between AC heuristics and DC approximations

Proceedings - 2014 Power Systems Computation Conference, PSCC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bent, Russell ^a   Coffrin, Carleton ^b   Gumucio, Rodrigo R E ^b   Van Hentenryck, Pascal ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

AC Power Flow; DC Power Flow; LPAC Power Flow; Nonlinear Programming; Optimization methods; Power System Planning

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION;

AC POWER FLOW; DC POWER FLOW; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; POWER FLOWS; POWER SYSTEM PLANNING;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84946688128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PSCC.2014.7038299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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