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As a critical component of modern infrastructure, data centers account for a huge amount of power consumption and greenhouse gas emission. This paper studies the electricity purchase strategy for a data center to lower its energy cost while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Kekun Gao , Yuejun Yan , Yixuan Liu , Endong Liu , Pengcheng You

Energy storage in data centers has mainly been used as devices to backup generators during power outages. Recently, there has been a growing interest in using energy storage devices to actively shape power consumption in data centers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Yuanyuan Shi , Bolun Xu , Baosen Zhang , Di Wang

We consider the problem of optimal control of district cooling energy plants (DCEPs) consisting of multiple chillers, a cooling tower, and a thermal energy storage (TES), in the presence of time-varying electricity price. A straightforward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Zhong Guo , Aditya Chaudhari , Austin R. Coffman , Prabir Barooah

Price responsiveness is a major feature of end use customers (EUCs) that participate in demand response (DR) programs, and has been conventionally modeled with static demand functions, which take the electricity price as the input and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Hanchen Xu , Hongbo Sun , Daniel Nikovski , Kitamura Shoichi , Kazuyuki Mori

In the context of building electrification, the operation of distributed energy resources integrating multiple energy carriers (electricity, heat, mobility) poses a significant challenge due to the nonlinear device dynamics, uncertainty,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Darío Slaifstein , Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli , Laura Ramirez-Elizondo , Pavol Bauer

The prediction of electrical power in combined cycle power plants is a key challenge in the electrical power and energy systems field. This power output can vary depending on environmental variables, such as temperature, pressure, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Jesus L. Lobo , Igor Ballesteros , Izaskun Oregi , Javier Del Ser

The environmental impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) on data centers hosting these models is becoming a significant concern. While many efforts have focused on reducing the substantial training overhead of LLMs, carbon and water…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Arash Khalatbarisoltani , Amin Mahmoudi , Jie Han , Muhammad Saeed , Wenxue Liu , Jinwen Li , Solmaz Kahourzade , Amirmehdi Yazdani , Xiaosong Hu

A novel centralized model predictive control (MPC) is proposed for comfort and energy management in a residential building. The residential setup used here is equipped with a photovoltaic (PV) solar system and a stationary home battery…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Sayani Seal , Benoit Boulet , Vahid Raissi Dehkordi

In this paper, we propose an economic nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for district heating networks (DHNs). The proposed method features prosumers, multiple producers, and storage systems, which are essential components…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Max Sibeijn , Saeed Ahmed , Mohammad Khosravi , Tamás Keviczky

The extraordinary electric vehicle (EV) popularization in the recent years has facilitated research studies in alleviating EV energy charging demand. Previous studies primarily focused on the optimizations over charging stations (CS) profit…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tianhao Bu , Hang Li , Guojie Li

Wireless networks used for Internet of Things (IoT) are expected to largely involve cloud-based computing and processing. Softwarised and centralised signal processing and network switching in the cloud enables flexible network control and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Beiran Chen , Yi Zhang , George Iosifidis , Mingming Liu

Electricity price forecasting (EPF) is a branch of forecasting on the interface of electrical engineering, statistics, computer science, and finance, which focuses on predicting prices in wholesale electricity markets for a whole spectrum…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-04-26 Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski , Jesus Lago , Grzegorz Marcjasz , Rafał Weron

The rapid growth of the digital economy and artificial intelligence has transformed cloud data centers into essential infrastructure with substantial energy consumption and carbon emission, necessitating effective energy management.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Yimeng Sun , Zhaohao Ding , Payman Dehghanian , Fei Teng

The rapid growth of data centres poses an evolving challenge for power systems with high variable renewable energy. Traditionally operated as passive electrical loads, data centres, have the potential to become active participants that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Mehmet Turker Takci , James Day , Meysam Qadrdan

Data centers handle impressive high figures in terms of energy consumption, and the growing popularity of Cloud applications is intensifying their computational demand. Moreover, the cooling needed to keep the servers within reliable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Patricia Arroba , José L. Risco-Martín , José M. Moya , José L. Ayala

In the present work we tackle the problem of finding the optimal price tariff to be set by a risk-averse electric retailer participating in the pool and whose customers are price-sensitive. We assume that the retailer has access to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Román Pérez-Santalla , Miguel Carrión , Carlos Ruiz

Data centers (DCs) can help decarbonize the power grid by helping absorb renewable power (e.g., wind and solar) due to their ability to shift power loads across space and time. However, to harness such load-shifting flexibility, it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-15 Weiqi Zhang , Line A. Roald , Victor M. Zavala

This paper presents a dynamic pricing and energy management framework for electric vehicle (EV) charging service providers. To set the charging prices, the service providers faces three uncertainties: the volatility of wholesale electricity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-10 Chao Luo , Yih-Fang Huang , Vijay Gupta

Probabilistic electricity price forecasting (PEPF) is vital for short-term electricity markets, yet the multivariate nature of day-ahead prices - spanning 24 consecutive hours - remains underexplored. At the same time, real-time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-27 Simon Hirsch

In smart grid, a home appliance can adjust its power consumption level according to the realtime power price obtained from communication channels. Most studies on smart grid do not consider the cost of communications which cannot be ignored…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-11 Husheng Li , Robert C. Qiu