Advanced Cutting-Plane Algorithms for ACOPF

Abstract

We propose a disciplined, numerically stable, and scalable approach to SDP relaxations of the ACOPF problem based on linear cutting-planes. Our method can be warm-started and, owing to its linear nature, enables the computation of tight and accurate bounds for large-scale multi-period relaxations -- well beyond what nonlinear convex solvers can achieve. Preliminary experiments show promising results when benchmarked against state-of-the-art bounds on PGLIB instances.