Energy flexibility of residential buildings: A systematic review of characterization and quantification methods and applications

H Li, Z Wang, T Hong, MA Piette - Advances in Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
With building electric demand becoming increasingly dynamic, and a growing percentage of
intermittent renewable power generation from solar photovoltaics and wind turbines, the …

[HTML][HTML] What adds more flexibility? An energy system analysis of storage, demand-side response, heating electrification, and distribution reinforcement

A Rinaldi, S Yilmaz, MK Patel, D Parra - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper compares various flexibility options to support renewable energy integration
across the energy transition using energy system modelling. We analyse new flexibility …

Digital twins based day-ahead integrated energy system scheduling under load and renewable energy uncertainties

M You, Q Wang, H Sun, I Castro, J Jiang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
By constructing digital twins (DT) of an integrated energy system (IES), one can benefit from
DT's predictive capabilities to improve coordinations among various energy converters …

Towards data-driven energy communities: A review of open-source datasets, models and tools

H Kazmi, Í Munné-Collado, F Mehmood… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Energy communities will play a central role in the sustainable energy transition by hel**
inform and engage end users to become more responsible consumers of energy. However …

[HTML][HTML] Develo** energy flexibility in clusters of buildings: A critical analysis of barriers from planning to operation

J Le Dréau, RA Lopes, S O'Connell, D Finn, M Hu… - Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines building energy flexibility at an aggregated level and addresses the
main barriers and research gaps for the development of this resource across three design …

A fundamental unified framework to quantify and characterise energy flexibility of residential buildings with multiple electrical and thermal energy systems

A Bampoulas, M Saffari, F Pallonetto, E Mangina… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
To date, the energy flexibility assessment of multicomponent electrical and thermal systems
in residential buildings is hindered by the lack of adequate indicators due to the different …

Levelized cost quantification of energy flexibility in high-density cities and evaluation of demand-side technologies for providing grid services

X Zang, H Li, S Wang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
Today, energy flexibility technologies at demand side have been increasingly used to
provide energy flexibility services to power grids for enhancing their power balance and …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal control of demand flexibility under real-time pricing for heating systems in buildings: A real-life demonstration

C Finck, R Li, W Zeiler - Applied energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The identification, quantification, and control of demand flexibility is the major challenge for
future grid operations and requires innovative methods and new control strategies. Optimal …

Demand Side Management of a pool of air source heat pumps for space heating and domestic hot water production in a residential district

J Vivian, E Prataviera, F Cunsolo, M Pau - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The ongoing electrification of the heating sector will severely affect the patterns of power
consumption in electrical distribution systems. Coupling electric heat pumps to thermal …

A sensitivity analysis on the heating and cooling energy flexibility of residential buildings

J Vivian, U Chiodarelli, G Emmi, A Zarrella - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
The present paper evaluates the potential of the buildings thermal inertia to modify their heat
load pattern using two energy flexibility indicators: the available heat storage capacity and …