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Sustainable energy systems require flexible elements to balance the variability of renewable energy sources. Demand response aims to adapt the demand to the variable generation, in particular by shifting the load in time. In this article,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-04 Chengyuan Han , Dirk Witthaut , Leonardo Rydin Gorjão , Philipp C. Böttcher

The rapid deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution networks has brought challenges to balance the system and stabilize frequency. DERs have the ability to provide frequency regulation; however, existing dynamic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-18 Wenbo Wang , Xin Fang , Hantao Cui , Fangxing Li

Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of flexible loads in providing frequency response services. However, uncertainty and variability in various weather-related and end-use behavioral factors often affect the demand-side control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Sai Pushpak Nandanoori , Soumya Kundu , Jianming Lian , Umesh Vaidya , Draguna Vrabie , Karanjit Kalsi

Power systems must maintain the frequency within acceptable limits when subjected to a disturbance. To ensure this, the most significant credible disturbance in the system is normally used as a benchmark to allocate the Primary Frequency…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Alinane B. Kilembe Panagiotis N. Papadopoulos

This paper investigates a new method to model and control variable-frequency power converters in a switching-synchronized sampled-state space for cycle-by-cycle digital control. There are a number of significant benefits in comparison to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Xiaofan Cui , Al-Thaddeus Avestruz

Network reconfiguration (NR) has recently received significant attention due to its potential to improve grid resilience by realizing self-healing microgrids (MGs). This paper proposes a new strategy for the real-time frequency regulation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Young-Jin Kim

In modern power systems, frequency regulation is a fundamental prerequisite for ensuring system reliability and assessing the robustness of expansion projects. Conventional feedback control schemes, however, exhibit limited accuracy under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Amin Masoumi , Mert Korkali

Thermal-aware workload distribution is a common approach in the literature for power consumption optimization in data centers. However, data centers also have other operational costs such as the cost of equipment maintenance and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-25 Somayye Rostami , Douglas G. Down , George Karakostas

The power consumption of enormous network devices in data centers has emerged as a big concern to data center operators. Despite many traffic-engineering-based solutions, very little attention has been paid on performance-guaranteed energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Lin Wang , Fa Zhang , Kai Zheng , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Shaolei Ren , Zhiyong Liu

Congestion control plays a pivotal role in large-scale data centers, facilitating ultra-low latency, high bandwidth, and optimal utilization. Even with the deployment of data center congestion control mechanisms such as DCQCN and HPCC,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jing Xu , Zhan Wang , Fan Yang , Ning Kang , Zhenlong Ma , Guojun Yuan , Guangming Tan , Ninghui Sun

If a disturbance rocks a low-inertia power system, the frequency decline may be too rapid to arrest before it triggers undesirable responses from generators and loads. In the worst case, this instability could lead to blackout and major…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Adam B. Birchfield

Load side participation can provide support to the power network by appropriately adapting the demand when required. In addition, it enables an economically improved power allocation. In this study, we consider the problem of providing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-10 Andreas Kasis , Stelios Timotheou , Marios Polycarpou

The rapid expansion of cloud computing and data center infrastructure has led to significant energy consumption, posing environmental challenges due to the growing carbon footprint. This research explores energy-aware management strategies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Rabab Khan Rongon , Krishna Das

The energy consumption issue in distributed computing systems has become quite critical due to environmental concerns. In response to this, many energy-aware scheduling algorithms have been developed primarily by using the dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Masnida Emami , Yashar Ghiasi , Nasrin Jaberi

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

Because energy storage systems have better ramping characteristics than traditional generators, their participation in frequency regulation should facilitate the balancing of load and generation. However, they cannot sustain their output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-20 Bolun Xu , Yury Dvorkin , Daniel S. Kirschen , C. A. Silva-Monroy , Jean-Paul Watson

In the current practice of short-term power scheduling, online power reserves are used to address generation mismatches and contingencies. Neither online inertia nor the speed of the committed units is considered in the scheduling process.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Mohammad Rajabdorri , Enrique Lobato , Lukas Sigrist

The exponential growth of digital services has positioned data centers among the most energy-intensive infrastructures in the modern economy, raising critical concerns regarding operational costs, carbon emissions, and the sustainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Abderaouf Bahi , Amel Ourici , Hasan Dincer , Serhat Yuksel , Akila Djebbar

Integrated with a high share of Inverter-Based Resources (IBRs), microgrids face increasing complexity of frequency dynamics, especially after unintentional islanding from the maingrid. These IBRs, on the other hand, provide more control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Zhongda Chu , Guoxuan Cui , Fei Teng

With increased wind power penetration in modern power systems, wind plants are required to provide frequency support similar to conventional plants. However, for the existing frequency regulation scheme of wind turbines, the control gains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Cheng Zhong , Yueming Lv , Huayi Li , JiKai Chen , Yang Li