Occupant behavior modeling methods for resilient building design, operation and policy at urban scale: A review

B Dong, Y Liu, H Fontenot, M Ouf, M Osman, A Chong… - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Traditional occupant behavior modeling has been studied at the building level, and it has
become an important factor in the investigation of building energy consumption. However …

Data sources and approaches for building occupancy profiles at the urban scale–A review

S Nejadshamsi, U Eicker, C Wang, J Bentahar - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Buildings' occupant profiles at the urban scale play an important role in various applications
like Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) and assessing energy consumption patterns …

Buildings-to-distribution-network integration considering power transformer loading capability and distribution network reconfiguration

Y Zhang, T Qian, W Tang - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel buildings-to-distribution-network integration framework is developed in this paper.
The joint objective of the proposed framework is to schedule flexible resources, so that the …

Flexible operation of active distribution network using integrated smart buildings with heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems

T Jiang, Z Li, X **, H Chen, X Li, Y Mu - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Aiming to utilize the flexibility of smart buildings for flexible operation of active distribution
network, a combined modeling and optimal scheduling method for the active distribution …

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning-based coordination control for grid-aware multi-buildings

B Zhang, W Hu, AMYM Ghias, X Xu, Z Chen - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In commercial buildings, Heat, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems
account for about 40–50% of total electricity usage, contributing to an economic burden on …

Soft open point planning in renewable-dominated distribution grids with building thermal storage

T Zhang, J Wang, H Zhong, G Li… - CSEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With an increasing integration of intermittent distributed energy resources (DERs), the
consequent voltage excursion and thermal overloading issues limit the self-sufficiency of …

Coordinating the operations of smart buildings in smart grids

Y Liu, N Yu, W Wang, X Guan, Z Xu, B Dong, T Liu - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
With big thermal storage capacity and controllable loads such as the heating ventilation and
air conditioning systems, buildings have great potential in providing demand response …

Distributed model predictive control for coordinated, grid-interactive buildings

CJ Bay, R Chintala, V Chinde, J King - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Continued focus on reducing carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency requires
buildings to become grid-interactive and not just behave as static consumers. A distributed …

Linearized price-responsive HVAC controller for optimal scheduling of smart building loads

M Ostadijafari, A Dubey, N Yu - IEEE Transactions on Smart …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The need to optimize the energy consumption of commercial buildings-responsible for over
40% of US energy consumption-has recently gained significant attention due to the call for …

Bi-level optimal operations for grid operator and low-carbon building prosumers with peer-to-peer energy sharing

X Wang, H Jia, X **, Y Mu, W Wei, X Yu, S Liang - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Low-carbon buildings (LCBs) are normally equipped with distributed energy resources
(DERs) such as photovoltaic (PV) panels and batteries, thereby creating LCB prosumers that …