Article ID: | iaor2017381 |
Volume: | 64 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 922 |
End Page Number: | 938 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2016 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Linderoth Jeff, Dey Santanu S, Luedtke James, Sun Xu Andy, Kocuk Burak, Jeon Hyemin |
Keywords: | optimization, combinatorial optimization, heuristics |
It is well known that optimizing network topology by switching on and off transmission lines improves the efficiency of power delivery in electrical networks. In fact, the USA Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Section 1223) states that the United States should ‘encourage, as appropriate, the deployment of advanced transmission technologies’ including ‘optimized transmission line configurations.’ As such, many authors have studied the problem of determining an optimal set of transmission lines to switch off to minimize the cost of meeting a given power demand under the direct current (DC) model of power flow. This problem is known in the literature as the