Energy Management Systems and Renewable Energy Integration in Buildings
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 2871
Special Issue Editors
2. CPES INESCTEC-Center for Power and Energy System, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: power system quality; harmonic distortion; monitorization systems; renewables; microgeneration; electrical machines
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Interests: smart grid; electricity markets; artificial intelligence; machine learning; multi-agent systems
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Interests: distribution network planning; operation and reconfiguration; smart grids; smart cities; electric mobility; distributed energy resources management; power systems reliability; future power systems; optimization; electricity markets and intelligent house management systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing penetration of renewable energy has led to significant changes in power and energy systems. Consumers are also producing local distributed generation, which, allied with the continuous increase in energy consumption bills, is leading to a generalized need for building energy management systems. Usually, building energy management systems provide recommendations to the building users or managers, or act directly on energy resources to adapt the building’s consumption by considering factors such as the market price, generation, and expected consumption, while guaranteeing users’ comfort. Building energy management systems can, however, be highly complex, depending on the types of building and energy consumers. Additionally, difficulties in accessing important data within an acceptable timeframe and in dealing with the variable nature of the involved energy resources brings about a need for new models and approaches for improving building energy management systems. The development of intelligent systems that lead to the optimization of energy consumption is also an important goal for energy efficiency in buildings. The management of load profiles is also a fundamental task in the search for smarter buildings that help their users to adopt the most rational behaviors at all times, mainly at this stage, when the penetration of electric vehicles is having an increasing impact on buildings’ demands.
This Special Issue calls for contributions related to advances in energy management systems and renewable energy integration in buildings, addressing different perspectives and related problems. These include, but are not limited to, work that proposes novel conceptual energy management models; work that proposes new software solutions for renewable energy integration in buildings; and work that focuses on problems related to the physical integration of and interaction with energy resources, such as data acquisition, communications and control. The development of optimization models that present efficient load profile management for different types of buildings is also a field where this Special Issue aims to make a contribution.
Prof. Dr. José Manuel Ribeiro Baptista
Dr. Tiago Pinto
Dr. Bruno Canizes
Guest Editors
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