Smart home in smart microgrid: A cost-effective energy ecosystem with intelligent hierarchical agents

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-13

  Jiang, Bingnan ^a   Fei, Yunsi ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand response (DR); distributed energy resources (DER); microgrid; particle swarm optimization (PSO); Q learning; smart grid

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

DEMAND RESPONSE; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE; MICRO GRID; Q-LEARNING; SMART GRID;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84919949652     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2014.2347043     Document Type: Article

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