Edwin N. Mbinkar^1,*, Derek Ajesam Asoh^1,2,3, Jerome Ndam Mungwe³, Livinus Songyuh⁴, Emmanuel Lamfu⁵

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.6, pp. 2637-2654, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.023419 - 14 September 2022

Abstract An electricity market is a trading platform provided by the actors in the electricity sector to sell and buy electricity while maintaining the stability of the transmission network and minimizing energy losses. The management of electrical energy for rational use consists of all the operations that the consumers can carry out in order to minimize their electricity bill, while the producers optimize their benefits and the transmission infrastructure. The reduction of active and reactive power consumption and the smoothing of daily and yearly load profiles are the main objectives in this work. Many developed countries… More > Graphic Abstract

Rongxin Zhang^1,*, Chengying Yang^2,3, Xuetao Li¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.6, pp. 2489-2511, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.021517 - 14 September 2022

Abstract Buildings are the main energy consumers across the world, especially in urban communities. Building smartization, or the smartification of housing, therefore, is a major step towards energy grid smartization too. By controlling the energy consumption of lighting, heating, and cooling systems, energy consumption can be optimized. All or some part of the energy consumed in future smart buildings must be supplied by renewable energy sources (RES), which mitigates environmental impacts and reduces peak demand for electrical energy. In this paper, a new optimization algorithm is applied to solve the optimal energy consumption problem by considering… More >

Yongjiang Zhao, Jae Hung Yoo, Chang Gyoon Lim^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5671-5686, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.027443 - 28 July 2022

Abstract With the rapid economic growth and improved living standards, electricity has become an indispensable energy source in our lives. Therefore, the stability of the grid power supply and the conservation of electricity is critical. The following are some of the problems facing now: 1) During the peak power consumption period, it will pose a threat to the power grid. Enhancing and improving the power distribution infrastructure requires high maintenance costs. 2) The user's electricity schedule is unreasonable due to personal behavior, which will cause a waste of electricity. Controlling load as a vital part of More >

Jiusong Chen^1,*, Dejun Miao¹, Yizong Dai¹, Mojtaba Ghadamyari^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.5, pp. 1985-2003, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.021142 - 21 July 2022

Abstract Electric vehicles (EVs) have received special consideration from modern society over the past several years. Although EVs are a fine example of environmentally friendly technology and have many advantages, they relatively increase the electricity demand upon a power grid as well. Therefore, their negative impact on busvoltage and line losses should be analyzed. In this study, the effect of EV loads and their penetration on bus voltage and line losses of an IEEE-33 bussystem has been examined via two scenarios. It is important to mention that the effect of EVs on the rate of air More >

Nada Yamoul^1,*, Latifa Dlimi¹, Baraka Achraf Chakir²

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.5, pp. 2135-2148, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.020005 - 21 July 2022

Abstract The building sector is one of the main energy-consuming sectors in Morocco. In fact, it accounts for 33% of the final consumption of energy and records a high increase in the annual consumption of energy caused by further planned large-scale projects. Indeed, the energy consumption of the building sector is experiencing a significant acceleration justified by the rapid need for the development of housing stock, wich is estimated at an average increase of 1,5% per year; furthermore, tant is an estimated increase of about 6,4%. In this sense, building constitutes an important potential source for… More >

Xiaona Fan, Qin Zhao, Guochen Sang, Yiyun Zhu^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.2, pp. 627-660, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020507 - 15 June 2022

Abstract Indoor thermal comfort and passive solar heating technologies have been extensively studied. However, few studies have explored the suitability of passive solar heating technologies based on differentiated thermal comfort demands. This work took the rural dwellings in Northwest China as the research object. First, the current indoor and outdoor thermal environment in winter and the mechanism of residents’ differentiated demand for indoor thermal comfort were obtained through tests, questionnaires, and statistical analysis. Second, a comprehensive passive optimized design of existing buildings was conducted, and the validity of the optimized combination scheme was explored using DesignBuilder… More >

Jian Dong, Haixin Wang, Junyou Yang^*, Liu Gao, Kang Wang, Xiran Zhou

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.132, No.1, pp. 319-340, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.020394 - 02 June 2022

Abstract Integrated energy system optimization scheduling can improve energy efficiency and low carbon economy. This paper studies an electric-gas-heat integrated energy system, including the carbon capture system, energy coupling equipment, and renewable energy. An energy scheduling strategy based on deep reinforcement learning is proposed to minimize operation cost, carbon emission and enhance the power supply reliability. Firstly, the low-carbon mathematical model of combined thermal and power unit, carbon capture system and power to gas unit (CCP) is established. Subsequently, we establish a low carbon multi-objective optimization model considering system operation cost, carbon emissions cost, integrated demand More >

Al-Batool Al-Ghamdi^1,*, Souad Kamel², Mashael Khayyat³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1365-1383, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026246 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Water is a vital resource. It supports a multitude of industries, civilizations, and agriculture. However, climatic conditions impact water availability, particularly in desert areas where the temperature is high, and rain is scarce. Therefore, it is crucial to forecast water demand to provide it to sectors either on regular or emergency days. The study aims to develop an accurate model to forecast daily water demand under the impact of climatic conditions. This forecasting is known as a multivariate time series because it uses both the historical data of water demand and climatic conditions to forecast… More >

Muhammad Irfan¹, Ali Raza^2,*, Faisal Althobiani³, Nasir Ayub^4,5, Muhammad Idrees⁶, Zain Ali⁷, Kashif Rizwan⁴, Abdullah Saeed Alwadie¹, Saleh Mohammed Ghonaim³, Hesham Abdushkour³, Saifur Rahman¹, Omar Alshorman¹, Samar Alqhtani⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 4249-4265, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025863 - 21 April 2022

Abstract In the Smart Grid (SG) residential environment, consumers change their power consumption routine according to the price and incentives announced by the utility, which causes the prices to deviate from the initial pattern. Thereby, electricity demand and price forecasting play a significant role and can help in terms of reliability and sustainability. Due to the massive amount of data, big data analytics for forecasting becomes a hot topic in the SG domain. In this paper, the changing and non-linearity of consumer consumption pattern complex data is taken as input. To minimize the computational cost and… More >

Jiacheng Yang¹, Xiaohe Zhai¹, Zhongfu Tan^1,2,*, Zhenghao He¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.119, No.3, pp. 883-906, 2022, DOI:10.32604/ee.2022.018033 - 31 March 2022

Abstract There is uncertainty in the electricity price of spot electricity market, which makes load aggregators undertake price risks for their agent users. In order to allow load aggregators to reduce the spot market price risk, scholars have proposed many solutions, such as improving the declaration decision-making model, signing power mutual insurance contracts, and adding energy storage and mobilizing demand-side resources to respond. In terms of demand side, calling flexible demand-side resources can be considered as a key solution. The user's power consumption rights (PCRs) are core contents of the demand-side resources. However, there have been… More >