L2RPN
Learning to Run a Power Network
For L2RPN reference, please cite "Learning to run a power network for training topology controllers" (2019) - "Learning to run a power network: a retrospective analysis" (2020) - "Learning to run a power network with trust" (2021)
Competition Overview & Mailing List
Overview
Learning to Run a Power Network Challenge (L2RPN)
Energies of the future and carbon neutrality
READ OUR COMPETITION DESIGN PAPER
Power networks transport electricity across states, countries and even continents. They are the backbone of power distribution, playing a central economical and societal role by supplying reliable power to industry, services, and consumers. Their importance appears even more critical today as we transition towards a more sustainable world within a carbon-free economy, and concentrate energy distribution in the form of electricity. Problems that arise within the power grid range from transient brownouts to complete electrical blackouts which can create significant economic and social perturbations, i.e.de facto freezing society. Grid operators are still responsible for ensuring that a reliable supply of electricity is provided everywhere, at all times. With the advent of renewable energy, electric mobility, and limitations placed on engaging in new grid infrastructure projects, the task of controlling existing grids is becoming increasingly difficult, forcing grid operators to do “more with less”. This challenge aims at testing the potential of AI to address this important real-world problem for our future.
AI For Smart Grids:
If you want participate to the competitions and get notified, especially when the competition starts, please sign up to our mailing list.
If you first want to know more about it, go through this web page and our white paper below.
Grid2Operate - AI for smart grid framework
Our testbed platform used in competitions to model real-time operations, run & benchmark control algorithms github.com/rte-france/Grid2Op .
Explore it on Google Colab.
Latest News
L2RPN 2022: "Energies of the future and carbon neutrality" accepted at WCCI 2022 or https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5410
Make sure to sign up in the mailing list to stay informed! You can also come discuss on our Discord Channel: https://discord.gg/cYsYrPT
"L2RPN with trust" competition ran at ICAPS 2021 https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/33121
"L2RPN in a sustainable world" Neurips 2020 competition keeps running as a benchmark:
Track Robustness: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/25426
Track Adaptability: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/25427
You can replay NeurIPS 2020 competition workshop videos here https://slideslive.com/neurips/competition-track-friday
A sandbox competition is also available for anyone to start playing around: https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/24493
Also visit the Competitions section above for more information about the competitions and watch winning team approach presentation.
Short Video of best AI agent behavior showcasing complex sequence of actions in a very tense situation.
Track 1 best agent results can be interactively explored in Grid2viz Binder Demo. Analysis from video can be reproduced there.
PMLR wrap-up paper of NeurIPS 2020 Competition results
L2RPN_PMLR_final_v3.pdfPMLR wrap-up paper of NeurIPS 2020 Competition results
Introduction to Electricity Network Operation
L2RPN_White_Paper.pdfEducational White Paper with the most important concept to get about Power System operation on the one hand and Reinforcement Learning on the other hand.
Recent IEEE Big data webinar introducing L2RPN challenge & more
Presented at Neurips 2018 workhop - Challenge into the wild
The Learning to run a power network challenge was first presented at the CIML workshop at Neurips 2018. It introduces the upcoming challenges for power grid operations.
The Learning To Run Story
Previously on Learning to Run ...
A first Reinforcement Learning challenge organized at NeurIPS 2017 by Stanford caught our attention and inspired us: The Learning To Run Challenge - or how to learn a controller to make an agent walk and run without falling! This was a tough coordination and planning problem.
See the video for some fun and some impressive results obtained with RL! For more details, visit the github page.
... Coming soon on Learning to Run !
A power grid can be seen as well as a giant artificial body that needs to be controlled with coordination to ensure proper stability while operating under a challenging hazardous environment. Otherwise the system will fall into a BLACKOUT !
See a didactic video explaining a near blackout event in Europe in 2006. Visit this section to know more about real-world issues.
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