Energy-efficient personalized thermal comfort control in office buildings based on multi-agent deep reinforcement learning

L Yu, Z Xu, T Zhang, X Guan, D Yue - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
In a shared office space, the percentage of occupants with satisfied thermal comfort is
typically low. The main reason is that heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) …

Energy management for households with solar assisted thermal load considering renewable energy and price uncertainty

HT Nguyen, DT Nguyen, LB Le - IEEE Transactions on Smart …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we investigate the energy scheduling problem for a household equipped with
a solar assisted heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, and water heating system in the …

Techno-economic assessment of bifacial photovoltaic and geothermal based multigeneration system for cleaner communities

M Temiz, I Dincer - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
This study proposes an integrated renewable energy based multigeneration system for fresh
water, heating, electricity and fuel requirements of a community with a greenhouse in …

A framework for building energy management system with residence mounted photovoltaic

C Chellaswamy, R Ganesh Babu, A Vanathi - Building Simulation, 2021 - Springer
Efficient utilization of a residential photovoltaic (PV) array with grid connection is difficult due
to power fluctuation and geographical dispersion. Reliable energy management and control …

The optimal configuration scheme of the virtual power plant considering benefits and risks of investors

J Wang, W Yang, H Cheng, L Huang, Y Gao - Energies, 2017 - mdpi.com
A virtual power plant (VPP) is a special virtual unit that integrates various distributed energy
resources (DERs) distributed in the generation and consumption sides. The optimal …

[HTML][HTML] Online modeling of virtual energy storage for inverter air conditioning clusters in CDL-based demand response

L Zhu, J Hong, S Yang, Z Hu, Y Shao, C Wu, G He - Energy Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the accelerated penetration of renewable energy hinders the flexible
adjustment of power systems. Customer directrix load (CDL)-based demand response (DR) …

Distributionally robust building load control to compensate fluctuations in solar power generation

Y Zhang, J Dong, T Kuruganti… - 2019 American Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the use of a collection of dispatchable heating, ventilation and air
conditioning (HVAC) systems to absorb low-frequency fluctuations in renewable energy …

Virtual Power Plant with Demand Response Control in Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources of Microgrid

E Buraimoh, IE Davidson - Virtual Power Plant Solution for …, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Power systems face certain technical challenges owing to the rising penetration of
distributed renewable energy resources to address environmental issues such as zero …

Building load control using distributionally robust chance-constrained programs with right-hand side uncertainty and the risk-adjustable variants

Y Zhang, J Dong - INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Aggregation of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) loads can provide reserves
to absorb volatile renewable energy, especially solar photo-voltaic (PV) generation. In this …

Decision Making for Smart Grids with Renewable Energy

HT Nguyen - 2017 - search.proquest.com
We are at the dawn of the smart grid era where there is significant increase in the demand-
side participation in the grid's operations. One important smart grid research topic concerns …