Building controls are becoming more important and complicated due to the dynamic and
stochastic energy demand, on-site intermittent energy supply, as well as energy storage …

Managing supply and demand in the electricity grid is becoming more challenging due to
the increasing penetration of variable renewable energy sources. As significant end-use …

As buildings account for approximately 40% of global energy consumption and associated
greenhouse gas emissions, their role in decarbonizing the power grid is crucial. The …

Smart grids are the developmental trend of power systems and they have attracted much
attention all over the world. Due to their complexities, and the uncertainty of the smart grid …

Controlling heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is crucial to improving
demand-side energy efficiency. At the same time, the thermodynamics of buildings and …

Whole building energy model (BEM) is a physics-based modeling method for building
energy simulation. It has been widely used in the building industry for code compliance …

Buildings account for nearly 40% of the total energy consumption in the United States, about
half of which is used by the HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) system …

Buildings account for about 40% of the global energy consumption. Renewable energy
resources are one possibility to mitigate the dependence of residential buildings on the …

This paper proposes a novel reinforcement learning (RL) architecture for the efficient
scheduling and control of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in a …

Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) accounts for around 40% of the total
building energy consumption. It has therefore become a major target for reductions, in terms …