Local energy markets (LEMs) aim at building up local balances of generation and demand close to real time. A bottom-up energy system made up of several LEMs could reduce energy transmission, renewable curtailm...
Authors: Esther Mengelkamp, Samrat Bose, Enrique Kremers, Jan Eberbach, Bastian Hoffmann and Christof Weinhardt
Over the last two decades, there has been a growing realization that the actual energy performances of many buildings fail to meet the original intent of building design. Faults in systems and equipment, incor...
Authors: Søren Egedorf, Hamid Reza Shaker, Rodney A. Martin and Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen
Data analytics are now playing a more important role in the modern industrial systems. Driven by the development of information and communication technology, an information layer is now added to the convention...
Authors: Yang Zhang, Tao Huang and Ettore Francesco Bompard
Greenhouse agriculture is a highly efficient method of food production that can greatly benefit from supplemental electric lighting. The needed electricity associated with greenhouse lighting amounts to about ...
Authors: Richard T. Watson, Marie-Claude Boudreau and Marc W. van Iersel
We use Agent Based Models (ABMs) to study and contrast the projected adoption of integrated photovoltaic and battery systems in both Ontario, Canada and Bavaria, Germany.
Authors: Adedamola Adepetu, Ammar Alyousef, Srinivasan Keshav and Hermann de Meer
In the coming years, the increase of automation in electricity distribution grids, controlled by ICT, will bring major consequences to the cyber security posture of the grids. Automation plays an especially im...
Authors: Alexandre Vernotte, Margus Välja, Matus Korman, Gunnar Björkman, Mathias Ekstedt and Robert Lagerström
Users create serious amounts of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Online platforms like OpenStreetMap or in real estate portals. Harvesting such data with the help of business analytics and machine l...
The use of demand response programs and distributed renewable energy resources are intensively discussed. These concepts play a key role in the distribution network, especially smart grids and microgrids. Nowa...
Authors: Omid Abrishambaf, Pedro Faria and Zita Vale
Governments and societies all over the world pay more and more attention to the research and development of smart buildings. There are numerous research projects on smart buildings that have been or being cond...
