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Demand charge, a utility fee based on an electricity customer's peak power consumption, often constitutes a significant portion of costs for commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging station operators. This paper explores control methods to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Thibaud Cambronne , Samuel Bobick , Wente Zeng , Scott Moura

Leveraging electrochemical and thermal energy storage systems has been proposed as a strategy to reduce peak power in data centers. Thermal energy storage systems, such as chilled water tanks, have gained increasing attention in data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Yangyang Fu , Xu Han , Jessica Stershic , Wangda Zuo , Kyri Baker , Jianming Lian

The secure operation of power distribution systems is challenged by the growing integration of distributed energy resources. Leveraging the flexibility of battery storage offers a cost-effective alternative to measures like generation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Sen Zhan , Lingkang Jin , Haoyang Zhang , Nikolaos G. Paterakis

Contemporary industrial parks are challenged by the growing concerns about high cost and low efficiency of energy supply. Moreover, in the case of uncertain supply/demand, how to mobilize delay-tolerant elastic loads and compensate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Dafeng Zhu , Bo Yang , Chengbin Ma , Zhaojian Wang , Shanying Zhu , Kai Ma , Xinping Guan

We develop an energy management system (EMS) for artificial intelligence (AI) data centers with colocated renewable generation. Under a cost-minimizing framework, the EMS of renewable-colocated data center (RCDC) co-optimizes AI workload…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Siying Li , Lang Tong , Timothy D. Mount

Amidst the climate crisis, the massive introduction of renewable energy sources has brought tremendous challenges to both the power grid and its surrounding markets. As datacenters have become ever-larger and more powerful, they play an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Hongyu He

The significant presence of demand charges in electric bills motivates large-load customers to utilize energy storage to reduce the peak procurement from the grid. We herein study the problem of energy storage allocation for peak…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yanfang Mo , Qiulin Lin , Minghua Chen , Si-Zhao Joe Qin

In this study, an optimization problem is proposed in order to obtain the maximum economic benefit from wind farms with variable and intermittent energy generation in the day ahead and balancing electricity markets. This method, which is…

Econometrics · Economics 2018-06-15 Akın Taşcikaraoğlu , Ozan Erdinç

Cloud computing revolutionised the industry with its elastic, on-demand approach to computational resources, but has lead to a tremendous impact on the environment. Data centers constitute 1.1-1.5% of total electricity usage in the world.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Dražen Lučanin , Ivona Brandić

Energy costs are a major factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO) for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The rise of intermittent green energy sources and reduced reliance on fossil fuels have introduced volatility into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Peter Arzt , Felix Wolf

Large scale electricity storage is set to play an increasingly important role in the management of future energy networks. A major aspect of the economics of such projects is captured in arbitrage, i.e. buying electricity when it is cheap…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-25 James Cruise , Lisa Flatley , Richard Gibbens , Stan Zachary

We investigate the problem of allocating energy from renewable sources to flexible consumers in electricity markets. We assume there is a renewable energy supplier that provides energy according to a time-varying (and possibly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-25 Michael J. Neely , Arash Saber Tehrani , Alexandros G. Dimakis

We formulate the optimal placement, sizing and control of storage devices in a power network to minimize generation costs with the intent of load shifting. We assume deterministic demand, a linearized DC approximated power flow model and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-18 Christos Thrampoulidis , Subhonmesh Bose , Babak Hassibi

In a wireless powered communication network (WPCN), an energy access point supplies the energy needs of the network nodes through radio frequency wave transmission, and the nodes store the received energy in their batteries for their future…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-27 Mohammad Movahednasab , Naeimeh Omidvar , Mohammad Reza Pakravan , Tommy Svensson

This paper considers a cost minimization problem for data centers with N servers and randomly arriving service requests. A central router decides which server to use for each new request. Each server has three types of states (active, idle,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Xiaohan Wei , Michael J. Neely

In this paper, a re-evaluation undertaken for dynamic VM consolidation problem and optimal online deterministic algorithms for the single VM migration in an experimental environment. We proceeded to focus on energy and performance trade-off…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nasrin Akhter , Mohamed Othman , Ranesh Kumar Naha

Data center electricity consumption reached 4.4% of U.S. total in 2023 and is projected to grow to 6.7--12% by 2028, imposing increasing stress on transmission networks while representing a largely untapped source of controllable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Haoxiang Wan , Xingpeng Li

Managing energy efficiency under timing constraints is an interesting and big challenge. This work proposes an accurate power model in data centers for time-constrained servers in Cloud computing. This model, as opposed to previous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Teresa Higuera , José L. Risco-Martín , Patricia Arroba , José L. Ayala

This paper presents a coordinative demand charge mitigation (DCM) strategy for reducing electricity consumption during system peak periods. Available DCM resources include batteries, diesel generators, controllable loads, and conservation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Rongxing Hu , Kai Ye , Hyeonjin Kim , Hanpyo Lee , Ning Lu , Di Wu , PJ Rehm

This paper considers the representation of energy storage in electricity sector capacity planning models. The incorporation of storage in long-term systems models of this type is increasingly relevant as the cost of storage technologies,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 James H. Merrick , John E. T. Bistline , Geoffrey J. Blanford