Occupancy-based demand response and thermal comfort optimization in microgrids with renewable energy sources and energy storage

Applied Energy

Volumn 163, Issue , 2016, Pages 93-104

  Korkas, Christos D ^a,c   Baldi, Simone ^b   Michailidis, Iakovos ^a,c   Kosmatopoulos, Elias B ^a,c  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Demand response; Microgrid; Occupancy information; Thermal comfort optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY STORAGE; FEEDBACK CONTROL; NATURAL RESOURCES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; THERMAL COMFORT; WIND TURBINES;

DEMAND RESPONSE; DEMAND RESPONSE PROGRAMS; HETEROGENEOUS CONDITIONS; INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES; MICRO GRID; OCCUPANCY INFORMATION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COST ANALYSIS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY RESOURCE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND TURBINE;

EID: 84947093003     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.10.140     Document Type: Article

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