This paper surveys the opportunities and challenges in an emerging area of research that
has the potential to significantly ease the incorporation of renewable energy into the grid as …

Electric vehicles (EVs) are promising to provide frequency regulation services due to their
fast regulating characteristics. However, when EVs participate in supplementary frequency …

In current computing systems, many applications require guarantees on their maximum
power consumption to not exceed the available power budget. On the other hand, for some …

Improving the energy efficiency of data centers while guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS),
together with detecting performance variability of servers caused by either hardware or …

Cloud data centres (CDCs) are the backbone infrastructures of modern digital society, but
they also consume huge amounts of energy and generate heat. To manage CDC resources …

There are numerous opportunities for data centers to participate in demand response
programs considering their large energy capacities, flexible working environments and …

With the ever growing popularity of cloud computing and web services, Internet companies
are in need of increased computing capacity to serve the demand. However, power has …

To accommodate the increasing presence of volatile and intermittent renewable energy
sources in power generation, independent system operators (ISO) offer opportunities for …

Data centers are good candidates for providing regulation services in the power markets
due to their large power consumption and flexibility. In this paper, we develop a framework …

Ancillary services are critical to maintaining the safe and stable operation of power systems
that contain a high penetration level of renewable energy resources. As a high-quality …