The current energy crisis has revealed deep vulnerabilities in energy supplies. It also emphasised the strong fossil fuel dependency of many countries. Some governments decided to tighten their energy policies, particularly on energy efficiency and the use of intermittent and renewable energies. Photovoltaic energy has the advantage of emitting few ...
Load-shifting is a demand-side management (DSM) strategy to support the efficiency of the electricity grid during hours of peak demand. Load-shifting at the appliance level is an interesting topic to review, since appliance usage is one of the main inputs of the load-profile analysis. More literature reviews on load-shifting at the appliance level ...
Smart metering and home energy management systems (HEMS) support households with roof-top photovoltaic (PV) to optimize self-consumption. These HEMS can convey subtle guidance for consumption shifts that address intuitive consumption routines. However, the efficacy of the guidance depends on the regulation of self-consumption. This presentation pro...
In this work, we an envision Home Energy Management System (HEMS) as a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) architecture including three stages: Data Acquisition, Communication Network, and Data Analytics. In this CPS, monitoring, forecasting, comfort, occupation, and other strategies are conceived to feed a control plane representing the decision-making pr...
In this paper, in a Model Predictive Control problem, we tackle the integration of uncertain constraints that belong to a discrete set. We propose a controller that offers a solution to reformulate the discrete stochastic constraints to avoid the exponential growth of scenario tree experienced by existing controllers. The proposed controller's effi...
Energy consumption in the residential sector particularly electricity is expected to grow more and more in the next years and decades. In addition, low emissions targets and reduction of the nuclear power plants, are driven the strong deployment of renewable energy sources. Among them, PV solar plays a huge role at a very local scale. In many count...
This PhD thesis is in the field of smart homes, and more specifically in the energy consumption optimization process for a home having an ambient energy source harvesting and storage system. The objective is to propose services to handle the household energy consumption and to promote self-consumption. To do so, relevant data must be first collecte...
The increase of decentralized energy generation and the increase of global attention for sustainable energy usage are developments that increase the demand of consumers to get insight in their energy consumption and in possible improvements that could increase the efficiency and sustainability of the energy usage. Current products and services for ...
The increasing levels of renewable generation and the electrification of transport and heating as parts of the movement towards low-carbon energy systems to cope with climate change will place significant challenges on the electricity system to facilitate the way towards future low carbon energy systems in a cost effective way and ensure secure pow...
