Ten questions concerning reinforcement learning for building energy management

Z Nagy, G Henze, S Dey, J Arroyo, L Helsen… - Building and …, 2023 - Elsevier
As buildings account for approximately 40% of global energy consumption and associated
greenhouse gas emissions, their role in decarbonizing the power grid is crucial. The …

[HTML][HTML] A review of reinforcement learning for controlling building energy systems from a computer science perspective

D Weinberg, Q Wang, TO Timoudas… - Sustainable cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy efficient control of energy systems in buildings is a widely recognized challenge due
to the use of low temperature heating, renewable electricity sources, and the incorporation of …

Reinforcement learning for building controls: The opportunities and challenges

Z Wang, T Hong - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Building controls are becoming more important and complicated due to the dynamic and
stochastic energy demand, on-site intermittent energy supply, as well as energy storage …

Review and evaluation of reinforcement learning frameworks on smart grid applications

D Vamvakas, P Michailidis, C Korkas… - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the rise in electricity, gas and oil prices and the persistently high levels of carbon
emissions, there is an increasing demand for effective energy management in energy …

Reinforcement learning for demand response: A review of algorithms and modeling techniques

JR Vázquez-Canteli, Z Nagy - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Buildings account for about 40% of the global energy consumption. Renewable energy
resources are one possibility to mitigate the dependence of residential buildings on the …

CityLearn v1. 0: An OpenAI gym environment for demand response with deep reinforcement learning

JR Vázquez-Canteli, J Kämpf, G Henze… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Demand response has the potential of reducing peaks of electricity demand by about 20% in
the US, where buildings represent roughly 70% of the total electricity demand. Buildings are …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of building demand flexibility using reinforcement learning and rule-based expert systems

X Zhou, S Xue, H Du, Z Ma - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing use of renewable energy in buildings requires optimization of building
demand flexibility to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions. Nevertheless, the …

Enforcing policy feasibility constraints through differentiable projection for energy optimization

B Chen, PL Donti, K Baker, JZ Kolter… - Proceedings of the Twelfth …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While reinforcement learning (RL) is gaining popularity in energy systems control, its real-
world applications are limited due to the fact that the actions from learned policies may not …

Application of two promising Reinforcement Learning algorithms for load shifting in a cooling supply system

T Schreiber, S Eschweiler, M Baranski, D Müller - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
With the increasing use of volatile renewable energies, the requirements for building
automation and control systems (BACS) are increasing. Load shifting within local energy …

CityLearn: Standardizing research in multi-agent reinforcement learning for demand response and urban energy management

JR Vazquez-Canteli, S Dey, G Henze… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Rapid urbanization, increasing integration of distributed renewable energy resources,
energy storage, and electric vehicles introduce new challenges for the power grid. In the US …