Publications

Lastest Update: 14th June 2023

Working Paper

• [It Takes More Than Electric Vehicles – Bottlenecks in Power Transmission Grids for Achieving New York State’s Transportation Electrification Ambition]
  Qianzhi Zhang, Yuechen Liu, Fengqi You, H.Olver.Gao, Applied Energy, under review.

Journal Paper

• A Systematic Review on Power Systems Planning and Operations Management with Grid Integration of Transportation Electrification at Scale
  Qianzhi Zhang, Jinyue Yan, H.Oliver Gao, Fengqi You, Advances in Applied Energy, accepted, 2023.

• Data-Driven Affinely Adjustable Robust Volt/VAr Control
  Naihao Shi, Rui Cheng, Liming Liu, Zhaoyu Wang, Qianzhi Zhang, Matthew J. Reno, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, accepted, 2023.

• Tractable Data Enriched Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Conservation Voltage Reduction
  Qianzhi Zhang, Fankun Bu, Yi Guo, Zhaoyu Wang, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, accepted, 2023. Slides.

• Impacts of battery energy storage technologies and renewable integration on the energy transition in the New York State
  Wei-Chieh Huang, Qianzhi Zhang, Fengqi You, Advances in Applied Energy, accepted, 2023.

• Safe and Stable Secondary Voltage Control of Microgrids based on Explicit Neural Networks
  Zixiao Ma, Qianzhi Zhang, Zhaoyu Wang, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, accepted, 2023.

• Online Voltage Control for Unbalanced Distribution Networks Using Projected Newton Method
  Rui Cheng, Yifei Guo, Qianzhi Zhang, Zhaoyu Wang, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.37, no.6, pp.4747-4760, Nov.2022.

• Stochastic Pre-Event Preparation for Enhancing Resilience of Distribution Systems
  Qianzhi Zhang, Zhaoyu Wang, Shanshan Ma, Anmar Arif, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol.152, pp.111636, Dec.2021. Slides.

• Cooperative Peak Shaving and Voltage Regulation in Unbalanced Distribution Feeders
  Yifei Guo, Qianzhi Zhang, Zhaoyu Wang, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.36, no.6, pp.5235-5244, Nov.2021.

• Distributed Optimal Conservation Voltage Reduction in Integrated Primary-Secondary Distribution Systems
  Qianzhi Zhang, Yifei Guo, Zhaoyu Wang, Fankun Bu, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, no.5, pp.3889-3900, Sept.2021. Slides.

• A Two-Level Simulation-Assisted Sequential Distribution System Restoration Model with Frequency Response Constraints
  Qianzhi Zhang, Zixiao Ma, Yongli Zhu, Zhaoyu Wang, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, no.5, pp.3835-3846, Sept.2021. Slides.

• Multi-Agent Safe Policy Learning for Power Management of Networked Microgrids
  Qianzhi Zhang, Kaveh Dehghanpour, Zhaoyu Wang, Feng Qiu, Dongbo Zhao, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.12, no.2, pp.1048-1062, March.2021. Slides.

• A Learning-Based Power Management Method for Networked Microgrids uder Incomplete Information
  Qianzhi Zhang, Kaveh Dehghanpour, Zhaoyu Wang, Qiuhua Huang, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.11, no.2, pp.1193-1204, March.2020. Slides.

• Distributed CVR in Unbalanced Distribution Systems with PV Penetration
  Qianzhi Zhang, Kaveh Dehghanpour, Zhaoyu Wang, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.10, no.5, pp.5308-5319, Sept.2019. Slides.

• Distributed DCOPF with Flexible Transmission
  Qianzhi Zhang, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Electric Power Systems Research, vol.10, no.5, pp.5308-5319, Sept.2019.

Conference Paper (Selected)

• Analyzing Impact of BESS Allocation on Hosting Capacity in Distribution Networks
  Naihao Shi, Rui Cheng, Zhaoyu Wang, Qianzhi Zhang, 2022 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Salt Lake City, UT, 2022.

• Smart Meter Data Compressionand Reconstruction Using Deep Convolutional Autoencoders
  Yuxuan Yuan, Qianzhi Zhang, Kaveh Dehghanpour, Zhaoyu Wang, 2021 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Phoenix, AZ, 2021.

• Impacts of Communication Limits on Convergence of Distributed DCOPF With Flexible Transmission
  Qianzhi Zhang, Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, 2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Morgantown, WV, 2017.

• Software Development of Optimal Substation Ground Grid Design Based on Genetic Algorithm and Pattern Search
  Qianzhi Zhang, Xuan Wu, 2014 North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Pullman, WA, 2014.

• High-Rise Building Mini-Hydro Pumped-Storage Scheme with Shanghai Jinmao Tower as A Case Study
  Jianmin Zhang, Qianzhi Zhang, 2014 IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), National Harbor, MD, 2014.

• Feasibility and Simulation Study of High-Rise Building Microgrid With PV and Mini-Hydro Pumping
  >Jianmin Zhang, Qianzhi Zhang, 2013 IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), Vancouver, BC, 2013.

• Photovoltaic Plant Metering Monitoring Model and Its Calibration and Parameter Assessment
  Qianzhi Zhang, Jianmin Zhang, Chuangxin Guo, 2012 IEEE PES General Meeting (PESGM), San Diego, CA, 2012.