Conference Publications (peer-reviewed)
Ruixiao Yang, Gulai Shen, A. S. Alahmed, Chuchu Fan, “Co-Optimizing Distributed Energy Resources under
Demand Charges and Bi-Directional Power Flow,“ submitted, 2024.
A. S. Alahmed, G. Cavraro, A. Bernstein, L. Tong, “Network-Aware and Welfare-Maximizing Dynamic Pricing for Energy Sharing,”accepted at the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milano, Italy, Dec., 2024.
A. S. Alahmed and L. Tong, “Resource Sharing in Energy Communities: A Cooperative Game Approach,” accepted at the 2024 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Seattle, WA, 2024 [arXiv]. (Best Paper Award at PESGM 2024)
A. S. Alahmed, G. Cavraro, A. Bernstein, L. Tong, “Operating-Envelopes-Aware Decentralized Welfare Maximization for Energy Communities,”59th Conference on Communication, Control, & Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, 2023 [Link, arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed and L. Tong, “Achieving Social Optimality for Energy Communities via Dynamic NEM Pricing,” IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Orlando, FL, 2023 [Link, arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed and L. Tong, “ Co-optimizing Behind-The-Meter Resources under Net Metering”, IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, Feb., 2023 [Link, arXiv]. (NSF travel grant)
C. Chen, A. S. Alahmed, T. D. Mount, L. Tong, “Competitive DER Aggregation for Participation in Wholesale Markets”, 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2023 [Link, arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed and M. Almuhaini "Hybrid Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach for Residential Load Compositions and Percentages", IEEE Power System and Green Energy Conference (PSGEC), 2021 [Link].
A. S. Alahmed, S. U. Taiwo, M. A. Abido and M. M. Almuhaini, ‘Intelligent Flexible Priority List for Reconfiguration of Microgrid Demands Using Deep Neural Network,’ IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), Chengdu, China, 2019, pp. 3490-3495. doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2019.8881363. [Link].
A. S. Alahmed, S. O. Taiwo and M. A. Abido, "Implementation and Evaluation of Grey Wolf Optimization Algorithm on Power System Stability Enhancement”, IEEE 10th GCC Conference & Exhibition (GCC), Kuwait, Kuwait, 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/GCC45510.2019.1570512680. [Link]
H. Adel, A. S. Alahmed and I. Elamin, "Possible Privatization Schemes for Power Generation Sector in Saudi Arabia," IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), Oshawa, Canada, 2018, pp. 171-175. doi: 10.1109/SEGE.2018.8499503. [Link]
A. S. Alahmed, M. Almuhaini "Modelling of Microgrid Demands and Controllable Loads for Highly Reliable Systems", GCC CIGRE POWER, Kuwait, February 2018.[Link]
A. S. Alahmed, O. Al-Afif, A. Talib, and A. Muqaibel, "Path-loss compensation in through-the-wall radar imaging," IEEE International Conference on Radar, Antenna, Microwave, Electronics, and Telecommunications (ICRAMET), Jakarta, 2016, pp. 144-148. doi: 10.1109/ICRAMET.2016.7849601. [Link]
Journal Publications
A. S. Alahmed, G. Cavraro, A. Bernstein, L. Tong, “A Decentralized Market Mechanism for Energy Communities under Operating Envelopes,”accepted at IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems [Early Access], Aug., 2024. [arXiv]
C. Chen, A. S. Alahmed, T. D. Mount, and L. Tong, “Wholesale Market Participation of DERA: Competitive DER Aggregation,” submitted, April., 2024 [arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed, L. Tong, and Qing Zhao, “Co-optimizing Distributed Energy Resources in Linear Complexity under Net Energy Metering,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, June, 2024 [Link, arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed, and L. Tong, “Dynamic Net Metering for Energy Communities,” IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, Jan., 2024 [Link, arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed, L. Tong, “Integrating Distributed Energy Resources: Optimal Prosumer Decisions and Impacts of Net Metering Tariffs”, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review (EIR), Apr., 2022 [link, arXiv].
A. S. Alahmed, L. Tong, “On Net Energy Metering X: Optimal Prosumer Decisions, Social Welfare, and Cross-subsidies”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2022 [Link, arXiv].
M. M. Al-Muhaini, A. Yahya, and A. S. Alahmed, “Distributed Generation and Load Modeling in Microgrids,” Sustainability, 15, 4831, Mar., 2023.
A. S. Alahmed, M. M. Al-Muhaini, “A Microgrid Testbed With Hybrid Renewables, Energy Storage and Controllable Loads”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), 2022 [link].
A. S. Alahmed, M. M. Al-Muhaini, “An intelligent load priority list–based integrated energy management system in microgrids”, Electric Power Systems Research, Volume 185, 2020, 106404, ISSN 0378-7796, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2020.106404. [link].
Alahmed, A, Alharbi, H, Elamin, I, Al‐Muhaini, M. Incentive‐based feasibility of a hybrid AC/DC microgrid in Saudi Arabia. IET Journal of Engineering. 2021; 1– 12. [link]
A. S. Al-Ahmed, “Performance of Controlled FACTS and VSC-HVDC in a Power System Subject to Inter-Area Oscillation,” Journal of Automation and Systems Engineering, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 14–33, Feb. 2018.
PhD Dissertation
A. S. Alahmed, “Integration of Distributed Energy Resources: Optimal Decisions, Mechanism Design, and Aggregation,” Electrical and Computer Engineering School, Cornell University, August 2024.
Industry and media Reports/articles
“6 reasons why grid access charges should not be part of utility rates,” Opinion article with the UtilityDive, Jan 23, 2023 (Link).
“Measurement and Verification (M&V) for Distributed Energy Resources Providing Grid Services: New Complexities, Common Approaches, and Research Needs”, Report number 3002023286, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Dec 31, 2021 (Link).