Optimization of Building Energy Systems and Energy Grids
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2025 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editor
Interests: control and optimization for cyber-physical energy systems and grids; grid-interactive buildings; renewable energy integration; power system operations; energy economics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Control and coordination in the modern energy ecosystem are often brought about through the use of optimization techniques. Buildings play a vital role in this ecosystem, as they have been estimated to be responsible for almost a third of the global energy consumption. With the advancement of information and communication technologies, control and optimization techniques become increasingly relevant for building energy systems, with a view towards achieving increased energy efficiency, improved fault detection and diagnostics, and resilient building operations. These assist in making promising strides towards global decarbonization. Similarly, from an overall energy grid operations standpoint, optimization techniques are frequently applied in different contexts, including capacity expansion planning and energy policy framing as well as more temporally granular objectives such as resource scheduling, market clearing and ancillary services, to ensure economical and environmentally sustainable power system operations.
In this Special Issue, we focus on novel algorithms, unique application areas, recent theoretical advancements and technical challenges related to optimization for building energy systems and energy grids. Optimization questions pertaining to building controls, including (but not limited to) model predictive control, optimal control, adaptive control and learning-based controls are welcome. On the grid side, topics of interest include (but are not limited to) optimization for transactive energy, microgrid operations, renewable energy integration and demand-side management.
Dr. Saptarshi Bhattacharya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- building performance optimization
- grid-interactive building controls and optimization
- model predictive control and adaptive control
- optimization for DER and microgrid operations
- optimization for renewable energy integration
- demand-side management
- transactive energy systems
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