The rapid development of technology in the electrical energy sector within the last 20 years
has led to growing electric power needs through the increased number of electrical …

Blockchain technology and, in particular, smart contracts based on it, offers a new,
decentralized mechanism for entering into and fulfilling contracts in diverse markets. Energy …

The use of data from residential smart meters can help in the management and control of
distribution grids. This provides significant benefits to electricity retailers as well as …

Big data has been advocated as a dominant driving force to unleash the great waves of the
next-generation industrial revolution. While the ever-increasing proliferation of …

With the growing percentage of the intermittent renewable power generation, the energy
system is under increasing pressure in balancing the supply and the demand. As a major …

Designing customized dynamic pricing is a promising way to incent consumers to adjust
their daily energy consumption behaviors. It helps manage flexible demand response …

Distribution grid agents are obliged to exchange and disclose their states explicitly to
neighboring regions to enable distributed optimal power flow dispatch. However, the states …

With increasing distributed energy resource integration, future power and energy systems
will be more decentralized using advanced Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Integrated …

Smart meters have collected massive amounts of fine-grained load data from users,
enabling various load profile analyses that can help improve the efficiency of smart grids …

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), which usually utilizes machine learning methods and
is effective in disaggregating smart meter readings from the household level into appliance …