Now that the use of renewable energy sources within our electricity network is on the increase, there is a growing demand for new technologies and processes that enable those energy sources to be integrated within the existing model. Interoperability forms a crucial challenge with regard to the energy market of tomorrow.

Identifying and smartly controlling flexible consumers is essential, both to provide load-balancing on a system level and to prevent or resolve local network issues. Buildings equipped with local (PV) production, batteries (stationary or in the form of an electric vehicle) and electrical (heat-pump based) heating, cooling and hot water production systems are highly suitable for this. Utilising and valorising this flexibility also dovetails with the vision and ambition to engage prosumers as more active participants in the energy system by allowing them to valorise their available flexibility as a support service.

Publications

Efficient temperature estimation for thermally stratified storage tanks with buoyancy and mixing effects

Year: 
2022
Journal: 
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
Soares, A; Camargo, J; Al-Koussa, J; Diriken, J; Van Bael, J; Lago, J
A Framework for Constrained Static State Estimation in Unbalanced Distribution Networks
Year: 
2022
Journal: 
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS
Vanin, M; Van Acker, T; D'hulst, R; Van Hertem, D
Reinforced model predictive control (RL-MPC) for building energy management
Year: 
2022
Journal: 
APPLIED ENERGY
Arroyo, J; Manna, C; Spiessens, F; Helsen, L
Integrating Plus Energy Buildings and Districts with the EU Energy Community Framework: Regulatory Opportunities, Barriers and Technological Solutions
Year: 
2021
Journal: 
BUILDINGS
Tuerk, A; Frieden, D; Neumann, C; Latanis, K; Tsitsanis, A; Kousouris, S; Llorente, J; Heimonen, I; Reda, F; Ala-Juusela, M; Allaerts, K; Caerts, C; Schwarzl, T; Ulbrich, M; Stosch, A; Ramschak, T
Building optimization testing framework (BOPTEST) for simulation-based benchmarking of control strategies in buildings
Year: 
2021
Journal: 
JOURNAL OF BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION
Blum, D; Arroyo, J; Huang, S; Drgona, J; Jorissen, F; Walnum, HT; Chen, Y; Benne, K; Vrabie, D; Wetter, M; Helsen, L

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