Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop Optimization and Control for Tomorrow’s Power Systems

The increasing penetration of distributed and renewable generators into today’s power systems poses new challenges to power system management and control. Future power system management systems have to balance the mismatch between volatile renewable generation and load as well as to bridge the geographical gap between renewable generators and load centers. For power system modeling, analysis and control, the mathematical and physical fundamentals of state-of-the-art methods have to be questioned in general, because these methods rely on power supply through synchronous generators and most renewable generators are connected to the power system with power electronic converters. The workshop provides a broad and profound overview of recent developments in different areas of power system modeling, analysis, optimization and control. The major topics are economic dispatch and unit commitment, power flow optimization, power system stability and control, as well as modeling and control of power electronic converters. For each topic, selected experts give plenary talks on their recent findings. We aim at a stimulating and interactive environment leaving plenty of time for discussions so that workshop attendees are able to discuss the presented results with the speakers. Motivation for this Workshop Optimization and control of power systems has received a steadily increasing attention in the control systems community, e.g. smart grid was among the top key words of the IFAC World Congress 2014. Even though the topic has already achieved a high publication rate, our community is still far from building up a new methodological kernel that is required to build up efficient power system management and control systems. The workshop aims at stimulating the discussion and collaboration between experts as well as at providing an introduction to newcomers to this field.