E-ENERGY

Urban development results in substantial changes to the climate variables (e.g., temperature, wind movement), statistically differing from those of the surrounding area, which is referred as microclimate. In particular, urban heat island is a prominent ...

Energy disaggregation helps to identify major energy guzzlers in the house without introducing extra metering cost. It motivates users to take proper actions for energy saving and facilitates demand response programs. To increase the accuracy of energy ...

Increasing costs of energy, proliferation of electrical appliances, and climate change are major drivers that are reshaping the power generation, distribution, and usage landscape.

Power distribution utilities incur significant expenditures due to field operations. While restoration efforts following outages lead to truck rolls in order to identify and rectify faults, there exist several non-outage events that also result in ...

Energy cost from hvac is a significant fraction of the overall operational cost of a commercial building. Moreover, in developing countries such as India with inadequate grid connectivity and frequent outages, diesel generators are a common source of ...

The aggregation of energy flexibilities enables individual producers and/or consumers with small loads to directly participate in the emerging energy markets. On the other hand, aggregation of such flexibilities might also create problems to the ...

In countries such as India with low grid prices, energy firms are offering competitive PPA tariffs for solar farms. Given lower margins in operating these farms, there is great sensitivity to panels under-performing. To detect under-performance, ...

Since the electric grid was not designed to support large-scale solar generation, current policies place hard caps on the number of solar systems that connect to the grid. Unfortunately, users are starting to hit these caps, which is restricting solar's ...

Sensor driven building management involves tasks like reducing and optimizing power consumption, monitoring the health of the building appliances, maintaining quality of the atmosphere in the building and tracking occupants in various parts of the ...

Better control of electrical loads through power electronic devices helps save energy. However, extensive usage of such electronics degrades the quality of power by introducing harmonics, which are sinusoidal currents and voltages with frequencies that ...

Intelligent control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in commercial buildings have been extensively studied in the literature. Although prior work has shown the benefits of using Model Predictive Control (MPC), existing work ...

Buildings are one of the largest energy consumers around the world. Several studies show that degraded and misćonfigured devices waste upto 30% of energy in commercial buildings. In this paper, we propose Collect, Compare, and Score (CCS), a generic ...