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Trust-Region Benders for Scalable Multiperiod Expansion Planning for Transmission and Storage

Kevin Wu·Rabab Haider·Pascal Van Hentenryck
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Transmission expansion planning (TEP) seeks to identify cost-effective investment strategies that enable power systems to reliably meet future demand, while accounting for the location, timing, and operational impacts of infrastructure upgrades. As demand grows and renewable penetration increases, there is growing interest in jointly modeling energy storage investments to enhance operational flexibility. This work presents a multiperiod formulation that co-optimizes transmission reconductoring and energy storage installation across multiple planning periods. To solve the resulting large-scale problem efficiently, a Benders decomposition with per-period trust-region stabilization and a relaxation-based warm-start procedure is proposed. The approach is demonstrated on a 2,000-bus Texas system, producing an investment plan spanning 2030-2045 with optimality gap below 1.0%, and is compared against a rolling-horizon approach to highlight the benefits of multiperiod coordination.

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Kevin Wu, Rabab Haider, Pascal Van Hentenryck. 2026-10-23. Trust-Region Benders for Scalable Multiperiod Expansion Planning for Transmission and Storage. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.32862

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