  Recently there has been considerable progress on the analysis of stability
and performance properties of so-called economic Nonlinear Model Predictive
Control (NMPC) schemes; i.e. NMPC schemes employing stage costs that are not
directly related to distance measures of pre-computed setpoints. At the same
time, with respect to the energy transition, the use of NMPC schemes is
proposed and investigated in a plethora of papers in different contexts. For
example receding-horizon approaches to generator dispatch problems, which is
also known as multi-stage Optimal Power Flow (OPF), naturally lead to economic
NMPC schemes based on non-convex discrete-time Optimal Control Problems (OCP).
The present paper investigates the transfer of analytic results available for
general economic NMPC schemes to receding-horizon multistage OPF. We propose a
blueprint formulation of multi-stage opf including AC power flow equations.
Based on this formulation we present results on the dissipativity and recursive
feasibility properties of the underlying OCP. Finally, we draw upon simulations
using a 5 bus system and a 118 bus system to illustrate our findings.
