The publication “Learning the optimal power flow: Environment design matters” by Thomas Wolgast and Astrid Nieße was successfully published in mid-August in the top-class open access journal Energy and AI. The paper uses deep reinforcement learning to approximate the optimal power flow, one of the most important optimisation problems in the energy system. In particular, we work out the great importance of the environment design, i.e. the formulation as a reinforcement learning problem, as a decisive factor for the resulting performance.
The paper can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyai.2024.100410