DeepOPF-V: Solving AC-OPF Problems Efficiently

Abstract

AC optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problems need to be solved more frequently in the future to maintain stable and economic operation. To tackle this challenge, a deep neural network-based voltage-constrained approach (DeepOPF-V) is proposed to find feasible solutions with high computational efficiency. It predicts voltages of all buses and then uses them to obtain all remaining variables. A fast post-processing method is developed to enforce generation constraints. The effectiveness of DeepOPF-V is validated by case studies of several IEEE test systems. Compared with existing approaches, DeepOPF-V achieves a state-of-art computation speedup up to three orders of magnitude and has better performance in preserving the feasibility of the solution.