Optimal technology selection and operation of commercial-building microgrids

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 975-982

  Marnay, Chris ^a   Venkataramanan, Giri ^b   Stadler, Michael ^a,c   Siddiqui, Afzal S ^d   Firestone, Ryan ^a,e   Chandran, Bala ^a,f  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Center for Energy and Innovative Technologies   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Summit Blue Consulting   (United States)

^f Analytics Operations Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Building management systems; Buildings; Cogeneration; Cooling; Cost optimal control; Dispersed storage and generation; Distributed control; Optimization methods; Power system economics; Power system planning

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; CAMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY RESOURCES; FINANCE; HEAT STORAGE; INVESTMENTS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; TECHNOLOGY;

ABSORPTION CHILLERS; BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; BUILDINGS; CARBON EMISSIONS; COGENERATION; COMBINED HEAT-AND-POWER; COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS; COOLING; COST OPTIMAL CONTROL; COST SAVINGS; DISPERSED STORAGE AND GENERATION; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY BILLS; MICRO-GRIDS; OPTIMAL TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; SAN FRANCISCO;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

EID: 49249103080     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2008.922654     Document Type: Article

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