{"title":"HVACLearn","authors":"J. Park, Zoltán Nagy","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3402364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3402364","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based Occupant-Centric Controller (OCC) for thermostats, HVACLearn. Monitoring indoor air temperature, occupancy, and thermal vote, the agent learns the unique occupant behavior and indoor environments and calculates adaptive thermostat set-points to balance between occupant comfort and energy efficiency. We simulated HVACLearn performance in a single occupant office with occupant behavior models from the literature (i.e., occupancy and thermal vote). Compared to a reference controller, HVACLearn reduced the number of button presses (too hot) significantly, while consuming same or less cooling energy. For the heating, HVACLearn resulted in almost same number of button presses (too cold) with slightly less heating energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126403419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-User Coalition Formation for Peer-to-Peer Energy Sharing","authors":"Yue Zhou, S. Chau","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3403511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3403511","url":null,"abstract":"Peer-to-Peer (P2P) energy sharing enables users to share their local energy resources based on an agreed cost-sharing mechanism. The users will need to form coalitions to coordinate the operations of their energy management systems. Each coalition should be stable, such that no users will collectively deviate to form other coalitions with better utility. However, there has been no effective coalition formation algorithm, other than 2-user coalition formation (as known as stable matching). In this paper, we present multiuser coalition formation algorithm, extending deferred acceptance algorithm, for P2P energy sharing under various fair cost-sharing mechanisms. We also evaluated coalition formation with 3 and 4-user coalitions for P2P energy sharing with real-world data traces.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127802945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synchrophasor Measurements-based Events Detection Using Deep Learning","authors":"H. Ren, Z. Hou, Heng Wang, P. Etingov","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3403513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3403513","url":null,"abstract":"Deep learning algorithms have been developed for phasor measurement units (PMUs) analysis aiming at providing grid operators to observe and react to significant real-time changes in the grid associated with multiple factors (e.g., power generation and load variations, different type of faults, and equipment malfunction), or for offline post-event system diagnostics. In this study, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based deep neural network (DNN) is adopted and evaluated to identify the most appropriate model configurations for event detection and longer-term anomalous pattern extraction. The proposed DNN model shows the potential on long-term predictions with the ability to capture nonlinear and nonstationary mixture complex patterns in PMU datasets. Real-world PMU in the WECC system were used for model development and validation.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115622445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fairness in Power Flow Network Congestion Management with Outer Matching and Principal Notions of Fair Division","authors":"Brinn Hekkelman, H. L. Poutré","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3397701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3397701","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of network flow congestion occurring in power networks is increasing in severity. Especially in low-voltage networks this is a novel development. The congestion is caused for a large part by distributed and renewable energy sources introducing a complex blend of prosumers to the network. Since congestion management solutions may require individual prosumers to alter their prosumption, the concept of fairness has become a crucial topic of attention. This paper presents a concept of fairness for low-voltage networks that prioritizes local, outer matching and allocates grid access through fair division of available capacity. Specifically, this paper discusses three distinct principal notions of fair division; proportional, egalitarian, and nondiscriminatory division. In addition, this paper devises an efficient algorithmic mechanism that computes such fair allocations in limited computational time, and proves that only egalitarian division results in incentive compatibility of the mechanism.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129606910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding Differential Privacy in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring","authors":"Haoxiang Wang, Chenyu Wu","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3403508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3403508","url":null,"abstract":"Smart meter devices enable the system operator to better understand the demand at the potential risk of private information leakage. One promising solution to mitigate such risk is to inject noises into the meter data to achieve certain level of differential privacy. In this paper, we cast the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) as a compressive sensing problem, and then seek to characterize the physical meaning of the parameters in ϵ-differential privacy in terms of the performance guarantee for NILM inference.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126940660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lucas Spangher, Akash Gokul, Manan Khattar, Joseph Palakapilly, A. Tawade, Adam Bouyamourn, Alex Devonport, C. Spanos
{"title":"Prospective Experiment for Reinforcement Learning on Demand Response in a Social Game Framework","authors":"Lucas Spangher, Akash Gokul, Manan Khattar, Joseph Palakapilly, A. Tawade, Adam Bouyamourn, Alex Devonport, C. Spanos","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3402365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3402365","url":null,"abstract":"Improving demand response can help optimize renewable energy use and might be possible using current tools in machine learning. We propose an experiment to test the development of Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents to learn to vary a daily grid price signal to optimize behavioral energy shift in office workers. We describe our application of Batch Constrained Q Learning and Soft Actor Critic (SAC) as RL agents and Social Cognitive Theory, LSTM networks, and linear regression as planning models. We report limited success within simulation with SAC and linear regression. Finally, we propose an experiment timeline for consideration.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"36 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132121658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","authors":"","doi":"10.1145/3396851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114198552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FlexAbility - Modeling and Maximizing the Bidirectional Flexibility Availability of Unidirectional Charging of Large Pools of Electric Vehicles","authors":"Jonas Schlund, M. Pruckner, R. German","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3397697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3397697","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new methodology for modeling flexibility availability (FlexAbility) of decentralized electric loads, e.g., electric vehicle charging, with an intuitive visualization method. The approach includes a novel method for aggregating and disaggregating flexibility that is more accurate and less complex than existing approaches. In addition, it is suitable for online flexibility determination and dispatch. It is the first which enables to consider a total energy constraint per individual load. We enable the determination of guaranteed aggregated FlexAbility over a time horizon by means of calculating flexibility dispatch paths. We then propose a method for maximizing the bidirectional power flexibility of unidirectional charging for generic applications in the power grid. We combine both new methods in a simulation model of electric vehicles with realistic mobility behavior. We are the first to provide an evaluation of the bidirectional power flexibility from unidirectional charging of electric vehicles, which is found to be bounded by the minimal capability to decrease charging power. We show that there is a trade-off between power and energy flexibility. Today, 20 thousand of the typical electric vehicles in Germany are able to keep bidirectional power flexibility of at least 1.3 MW available during a whole year. The general modeling approach is applicable for other flexible loads with flexible profiles and a total energy constraint as well.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123909141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Defining a synthetic data generator for realistic electric vehicle charging sessions","authors":"Manu Lahariya, Dries F. Benoit, Chris Develder","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3403509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3403509","url":null,"abstract":"Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have become prominent in electricity grids in the past years. Analysis of EV charging sessions is useful for flexibility analysis, load balancing, offering incentives to customers, etc. Yet, limited availability of such EV sessions' data hinders further development in these fields. Addressing this need for publicly available and realistic data, we develop a synthetic data generator (SDG) for EV charging sessions. Our SDG assumes the EV inter-arrival time to follow an exponential distribution. Departure times are modeled by defining a conditional probability density function (pdf) for connection times. This pdf for connection time and required energy is fitted by Gaussian mixture models. Since we train our SDG using a large real-world dataset, its output is realistic.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125108554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Permutation-Based Residential Short-term Load Forecasting in the Context of Energy Management Optimization Objectives","authors":"M. Voss","doi":"10.1145/3396851.3397731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3397731","url":null,"abstract":"What makes a household-level short-term load forecast \"good\"? Individual household load profiles are intermittent, as distinct peaks correspond to specific activities in the household. Using traditional point-wise error metrics to assess household-level forecasts may lead to, for instance, double-digit mean absolute percentage errors. One reason is a double penalty incurred if a peak is forecasted correctly in amplitude, but with a small delay in time. An adjusted forecast error measure based on local permutations was proposed to assess household-level forecasts by optimally aligning the peaks bounded by a displacement limit. This work shows how the choice of this parameter leads to different \"best\" forecasts in terms of specific applications, namely the optimization objectives of an energy management system. For that, different parameterizations of the Local Permutation Invariant (LPI) distance are compared within k-Nearest Neighbors as a forecasting model for three different optimization objectives. A simulation study on 100 households of the CER dataset shows that the optimal parameterization can decrease the peak load on average by over 22.5% compared to the Euclidean distance. However, for increasing self-sufficiency and minimizing costs, no significant improvements can be achieved. This implies that household-level forecasts should generally be evaluated in terms of their application, as traditional metrics as a proxy may not express its \"goodness\" adequately.","PeriodicalId":442966,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125414005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}