Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate. From smart grids to disaster management, we identify high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by machine learning, in collaboration with other fields. Our recommendations encompass exciting research questions as well as promising business opportunities. We call on the machine learning community to join the global effort against climate change.

Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

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Power System Analysis And Design

This article reviews recent works applying machine learning (ML) techniques in the context of energy systems’ reliability assessment and control. We showcase both the progress achieved to date as well as the important future directions for further research, while providing an adequate background in the fields of reliability management and of ML. The objective is to foster the synergy between these two fields and speed up the practical adoption of ML techniques for energy systems reliability management. We focus on bulk electric power systems and use them as an example, but we argue that the methods, tools, etc. can be extended to other similar systems, such as distribution systems, microgrids, and multienergy systems.

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Recent Developments in Machine Learning for Energy Systems Reliability Management

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning (ML) experts, may wonder how we can help. Here we describe how ML can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate. From smart grids to disaster management, we identify high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by ML, in collaboration with other fields. Our recommendations encompass exciting research questions as well as promising business opportunities. We call on the ML community to join the global effort against climate change. 

The Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problem is a fundamental building block for the optimization of electrical power systems. It is nonlinear and nonconvex and computes the generator setpoints for power and voltage, given a set of load demands. It is often needed to be solved repeatedly under various conditions, either in real-time or in large-scale studies. This need is further exacerbated by the increasing stochasticity of power systems due to renewable energy sources in front and behind the meter. To address these challenges, this paper presents a deep learning approach to the OPF. The learning model exploits the information available in the prior states of the system (which is commonly available in practical applications), as well as a dual Lagrangian method to satisfy the physical and engineering constraints present in the OPF. The proposed model is evaluated on a large collection of realistic power systems. The experimental results show that its predictions are highly accurate with average errors as low as 0.2%. Additionally, the proposed approach is shown to improve the accuracy of widely adopted OPF linear DC approximation by at least two orders of magnitude.

Predicting AC Optimal Power Flows: Combining Deep Learning and Lagrangian Dual Methods

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02372741/document

Neural Networks for Power Flow : Graph Neural Solver

We propose a neural network architecture that emulates the behavior of a physics solver that solves electricity differential equations to compute electricity flow in power grids (so-called "load flow"). Load flow computation is a well studied and understood problem, but current methods (based on Newton-Raphson) are slow. With increasing usage expectations of the current infrastructure, it is important to find methods to accelerate computations. One avenue we are pursuing in this paper is to use proxies based on "graph neural networks". In contrast with previous neural network approaches, which could only handle fixed grid topologies, our novel graph-based method, trained on data from power grids of a given size, generalizes to larger or smaller ones. We experimentally demonstrate viability of the method on randomly connected artificial grids of size 30 nodes. We achieve better accuracy than the DC-approximation (a standard benchmark linearizing physical equations) on random power grids whose size range from 10 nodes to 110 nodes. Our neural network learns to solve the load flow problem without overfitting to a specific instance of the problem.

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Graph Neural Solver for Power Systems

Learning to run a power network challenge for training topology controllers

We address the problem of assisting human dispatchers in operating power grids in today’s changing context using machine learning, with the
aim of increasing security and reducing costs. Power networks are highly regulated systems, which at all times must meet varying demands of electricity with a complex production system, including conventional power plants, less predictable renewable energies (such as wind or solar power), and the possibility of buying/selling electricity on the international market with more and more actors involved at a European
scale. This problem is becoming ever more challenging in an aging network infrastructure. One of the primary goals of dispatchers is to protect equipment (e.g. avoid that transmission lines overheat) with few degrees of freedom: we are considering in this paper solely modifications in network topology, i.e. re-configuring the way in which lines, transformers, productions and loads are connected in sub-
stations. Using years of historical data collected by the French Transmission Service Operator (TSO) “Reseau de Transport d’Electricite" (RTE), we develop novel machine learning techniques (drawing on “deep learning") to mimic human decisions to devise “remedial actions" to prevent any line to violate power flow limits (so-called "thermal limits"). The proposed technique is hybrid. It does not rely purely on machine learning: every action will be tested with actual simulators before being proposed to the dispatchers or implemented on the grid.

Introducing machine learning for power system operation support

For power grid operations, a large body of research focuses on using generation redispatching, load shedding or demand side management flexibilities. However, a less costly and potentially more flexible option would be grid topology reconfiguration, as already partially exploited by Coreso (European RSC) and RTE (French TSO) operations. Beyond previous work on branch switching, bus reconfigurations are a broader class of action and could provide some substantial benefits to route electricity and optimize the grid capacity to keep it within safety margins. Because of its non-linear and combinatorial nature, no existing optimal power flow solver can yet tackle this problem. We here propose a new framework to learn topology controllers through imitation and reinforcement learning. We present the design and the results of the first "Learning to Run a Power Network" challenge released with this framework. We finally develop a method providing performance upper-bounds (oracle), which highlights remaining unsolved challenges and suggests future directions of improvement.

Antoine Marot

Papers

Neural Networks for Power Flow : Graph Neural Solver

Graph Neural Solver for Power Systems

Learning to run a power network challenge for training topology controllers

Introducing machine learning for power system operation support

Learning to run a power network challenge for training topology controllers.