Advanced Energy Saving Technologies for Sustainable Energy Engineering
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 336
Special Issue Editors
Interests: operations research; metaheuristics; mathematical programming; multicriteria; multiple criteria decision analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Demand Response (DR) aims to motivate end consumers to alter their energy consumption patterns in response to changes in electricity prices or when the reliability of the electrical power system (EPS) is compromised. Most recent studies demonstrate that the main objective is to minimize the cost associated with electric energy consumption without considering the preferences/needs of end consumers. Therefore, it is possible to state that these works do not consider the actual difficulty of the problem. They do not evaluate aspects such as different residential scenarios, various categories of home appliances and the level of satisfaction/comfort of consumers with the new scheduling of their home appliances. Furthermore, studies that have dealt with the inconvenience aspect have performed simulations without considering the various categories of home appliances, thus reducing the method's complexity. However, this proposes a home energy management system (HEMS), a consumer satisfaction/comfort level that is able to minimize the cost associated with energy consumption and minimize the inconvenience (dissatisfaction/discomfort) of end consumers, ensuring the stability and the safety of the EPS. The HEMS, via the energy management controller (EMC), determines an optimized timeline for each appliance by utilizing various sources, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Analytics (BA), Business Intelligence (BI) and optimization techniques, and thus ensures a more economic scenario for end consumers. This Special Issue aims to introduce new thematic advances in AI applied to energy saving and sustainable energy. It particularly welcomes the submission of original research articles that focus on the potential optimization of these networks via novel multicriteria models that allow for more effective decision making and research articles that discuss the current state of the art.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Innovations applied to information and communications technologies in home energy management systems;
- New perspectives for the provision of the energy management system;
- Optimization tools for the elaboration of the energy management system;
- Optimization models for the energy management system in smart cities and intelligent villages context;
- Optimization models for the energy management systems and the question of one-off instances of emergency;
- Innovations in energy saving;
- Advances in AI applied to energy saving and sustainable energy.
Prof. Dr. Plácido Rogerio Pinheiro
Prof. Dr. Raimir Holanda Filho
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy management system
- multi-criteria analysis
- renewable energy
- power generation
- energy efficiency
- quality of life
- smart homes
- smart buildings
