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Hierarchical Decision Making In Electricity Grid Management

The power grid is a complex and vital system that necessitates careful reliability management. Managing the grid is a difficult problem with multiple time scales of decision making and stochastic behavior due to renewable energy generations, variable demand and unplanned outages. Solving this problem in the face of uncertainty requires a new methodology with tractable algorithms. In this work, ...

Redesigning Decision-making Architectures to Exploit Multi-scale Electricity Markets

Electricity markets allow manufacturing facilities to provide energy, ancillary services, and virtual products in day-ahead and real-time settings. A recently developed multi-scale market participation model reveals that a large fraction of these economic opportunities are provided by real-time markets (updated every 5 minutes). We also observe that this trend is likely to persist as more inter...

Autonomous Data-Driven Decision-Making in Smart Electricity Markets

For the vision of a Smart Grid to materialize, substantial advances in intelligent decentralized control mechanisms are required. We propose a novel class of autonomous broker agents for retail electricity trading that can operate in a wide range of Smart Electricity Markets, and that are capable of deriving long-term, profit-maximizing policies. Our brokers use Reinforcement Learning with func...

The effect of participation in decision-making and strategic control on organizational politics and organizational performance, Case study: Regional electricity and electricity distribution companies

This study examines the impact of participation of employee in decision making and strategic control on organizational politics and shows how organizational politics affects organizational performance. In order to do this, this study has modeled specific paths and directions in which organizational politics affects performance. While organizational politics is a common topic in the management l...