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System operations and electricity markets

Our current research focuses on grid optimizations and electricity markets and economic issues when significant renewables and distributed energy resources are involved.

    1. L. Tong, X. Wang, and Q. Zhao
      Grid Monitoring and Protection with Continuous Point-on-Wave Measurements and Generative AI

      Working Paper March, 2024

    2. X. Wang, L. Tong and Q. Zhao
      Generative Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting and Applications in Grid Operations
      2024 58th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS)Princeton, NJ, March, 2024

    3. Ahmed Alahmed, Lang Tong and Qing Zhao
      Co-optimizing distributed energy resources in linear complexity under net energy metering
      IEEE Transactions on Sustainabable Energy , to appear in 2024.
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    4. C. Chen, Siying Li, and L. Tong,
      Multi-Interval Energy-Reserve Co-Optimization with SoC-Dependent Bids from Battery Storage
      Working paper on arXiv, 2024
      See the conference version from IEEE PES General Meeting 2024 on arXiv.

    5. C. Chen, S. Bose, T. D. Mount and L. Tong,
      Wholesale Market Participation of DERAs: DSO-DERA-ISO Coordination
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, to appear in 2024
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    6. A. S. Alahmed and L. Tong
      Dynamic Net Metering for Energy Communities
      IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, to appear in 2024
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    7. A. N. Madavan, N. Dahlin, S. Bose and L. Tong
      Risk-Based Hosting Capacity Analysis in Distribution Systems
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 355-365, Jan. 2024
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    8. A. S. Alahmed and L. Tong
      Achieving Social Optimality for Energy Communities via Dynamic NEM Pricing
      2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) July, 2023

    9. Cong Chen and Lang Tong
      Pricing real-time stochastic storage operations
      Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 212, November 2022
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    10. Ahmed Alahmed and Lang Tong
      Integrating distributed energy resources: optimal prosumer decisions and impacts of net metering tariffs
      ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review, vol 2, issue 2, June 2022
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    11. Ahmed Alahmed and Lang Tong
      On Net Energy Metering X: Optimal Prosumer Decisions, Social Welfare, and Cross-Subsidies
      IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, (Early access) March 2022
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    12. Mariola Ndrio, Subhonmesh Bose, Lang Tong, and Ye Guo
      Coordinated Transaction Scheduling in Multi-Area Electricity Markets: Equilibrium and Learning
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 996-1008, March 2023
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    13. Jiantao Shi, Ye Guo, Lang Tong, Wenchuan Wu, and Hongbin Sun
      A Scenario-oriented Approach to Energy-Reserve Joint Procurement and Pricing
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, (Early access) April 2022
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    14. Ye Guo, Cong Chen, and Lang Tong
      Pricing Multi-Interval Dispatch under Uncertainty Part I: Dispatch Following Incentives
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, (Early access) January 2021
      See an extended version at arXiv.org.

    15. Cong Chen, Ye Guo, and Lang Tong
      Pricing Multi-Interval Dispatch under Uncertainty Part II: Generalization and Performance
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, (Early access) December, 2020
      See an extended version at arXiv.org.

    16. Sina Taheri, Mana Jalali, Vassillis Kekatos, and Lang Tong
      Fast Probabilistic Hosting Capacity Analysis for Active Distribution Systems
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, (Early access) November, 2020
      See an extended version at arXiv.org.

    17. T. Sun, Lang Tong, and D. Feng
      On the dynamics of distributed energy adoption: equilibrium, stability, and limiting capacity
      IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, January, 2020
      See an earlier version on arXiv and the conference version " Killing death spiral softly with a small connection charge" at the 2017 Allerton Conference.

    18. M. Ndrio, S. Bose, Y. Guo, and L. Tong
      Coordinated Transaction Scheduling in Multi-Area Power Systems with Strategic Participants
      Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, August, 2019. Best paper award.

    19. A. N. Madavan, S. Bose, Y. Guo, and L. Tong
      Risk-Sensitive Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch via Critical Region Exploration
      Proc. IEEE PES General Meeting, August, 2019

    20. S. Baltaoglu, L. Tong, and Q. Zhao
      Algorithmic Bidding for Virtual Trading in Electricity Markets
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, (Early access) August, 2018.
      See earlier versions at arXiv

    21. Daniel Munoz-Alvarez and Lang Tong
      On the efficiency of connection charges---Part I: a stochastic framework
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 33, no. 4, July 2018.
      See earlier versions at arXiv

    22. Daniel Munoz-Alvarez and Lang Tong
      On the efficiency of connection charges---Part II: integration of distributed energy resources
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 33, no. 4, July 2018.
      See earlier versions at arXiv

    23. Ye Guo, Y. Ji, and Lang Tong
      Generalized coordinated transaction scheduling: a market approach to seamless interfaces
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 33, no. 4, July 2018
      See earlier versions at arXiv

    24. Ye Guo, Subhonmesh Bose, and Lang Tong
      On robust tie-line scheduling in multi-area power systems
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol PP, no. 99, December 2017
      See earlier versions at arXiv

    25. Weisi Deng, Yuting Ji, and Lang Tong
      Probabilistic forecasting and simulation of electricity markets via online dictionary learning
      Proc the 50th Hawaii International Conf on System Sciences, January 4-7, 2017.
      Best paper award. See an earlier version on arXiv.

    26. Ye Guo, Lang Tong, Wenchuan Wu, Boming Zhang, Hongbin Sun
      Coordinated multi-area economic dispatch via critical region projection
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol 32, no. 5, September 2017.
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    27. Y. Ji, L. Tong, and R. J. Thomas
      Probabilistic forecast of real-time LMP and network congestion
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 831 - 841, March 2017
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    28. Y. Ji, T. Zheng, and L. Tong,
      Stochastic interchange scheduling in the real-time electricity market
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 32, issue 3, pp. 2017 - 2027, May 2017.
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    29. Y. Ji and L. Tong,
      Multi-area interchange scheduling under uncertainty
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 2, 1659 - 1669, March 2017.pp.
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    30. Y. Xu and L. Tong,
      Optimal operation and economic value of energy storage at consumer locations
      IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 792-807, 2017

    31. T. Routtenberg, Y. Xie, R. M. Willett, and L. Tong
      PMU based detection of imbalance in three phase power systems
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1966-1976, 2015
      See an earlier version on arXiv.

    32. S. Vakili, L. Tong, and Q. Zhao
      Bayesian quickest short-term voltage instability detection in power systems
      Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision and Control (CDC) Dec, 2015

    33. L. Jia, J. Kim, R. J. Thomas, and L. Tong
      Impact of data quality on real-time locational marginal price
      IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 627-636, March 2014