Exploring the benefits and limitations of digital twin technology in building energy

F Tahmasebinia, L Lin, S Wu, Y Kang, S Sepasgozar - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Buildings consume a significant amount of energy throughout their lifecycle; Thus,
sustainable energy management is crucial for all buildings, and controlling energy …

A review on the integration and optimization of distributed energy systems

F Ren, Z Wei, X Zhai - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The depletion of fossil fuels and climate change pose huge challenges to sustainable
development. How to meet the increasing energy demands in an efficient and …

Improved multistep ahead photovoltaic power prediction model based on LSTM and self-attention with weather forecast data

Z Hu, Y Gao, S Ji, M Mae, T Imaizumi - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate predictions of photovoltaic power generation (PV power) are essential for the
integration of renewable energy into grids, markets, and building energy management …

Domain knowledge decomposition of building energy consumption and a hybrid data-driven model for 24-h ahead predictions

X Liang, S Chen, X Zhu, X **, Z Du - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The task of building energy prediction (BEP) is essential to several emerging research
domains, including energy management, control optimization and fault detection. An …

A spatial-temporal layer-wise relevance propagation method for improving interpretability and prediction accuracy of LSTM building energy prediction

G Li, F Li, C Xu, X Fang - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
At present, data-driven methods have achieved satisfactory results in building energy
consumption prediction, especially deep learning models such as long short-term memory …

Performance evaluation of sequence-to-sequence-Attention model for short-term multi-step ahead building energy predictions

G Li, F Li, T Ahmad, J Liu, T Li, X Fang, Y Wu - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional building energy prediction (BEP) methods usually solve time-series prediction
problems using either recursive strategy or direct strategy, which may ignore time …

[HTML][HTML] BO-STA-LSTM: Building energy prediction based on a Bayesian optimized spatial-temporal attention enhanced LSTM method

G Li, Y Wang, C Xu, J Wang, X Fang, C **ong - Developments in the Built …, 2024 - Elsevier
In predicting building energy (affected by seasons), there are issues like inefficient
hyperparameter optimization and inaccurate predictions, it is unclear whether spatial and …

[HTML][HTML] Ranking building design and operation parameters for residential heating demand forecasting with machine learning

M Álvarez-Sanz, FA Satriya, J Teres-Zubiaga… - Journal of Building …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The European Union's Energy Performance in Buildings Directive has made
significant strides in enhancing building energy efficiency since its inception in 2002 …

A multi-step ahead global solar radiation prediction method using an attention-based transformer model with an interpretable mechanism

Y Zhou, Y Li, D Wang, Y Liu - International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The conventional multi-step ahead solar radiation prediction method ignores the time-
dependence of a future solar radiation time series. Therefore, according to sequence-to …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal graph attention network for building thermal load prediction

Y Jia, J Wang, MR Hosseini, W Shou, P Wu, C Mao - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning models have seen widespread application in predicting building
thermal loads. Yet, these existing models generally predict the thermal load for a single …