Ensuring renewable energy utilization with quality of service guarantee for energy-efficient data center operations

S Kwon - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
The reduction of greenhouse emissions is becoming a major goal of energy-intensive
industries, such as data centers, and there have been significant efforts to achieve …

[HTML][HTML] Rolling-horizon optimization integrated with recurrent neural network-driven forecasting for residential battery energy storage operations

S Abedi, S Kwon - International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the installation of battery energy storage (BES) integrated with solar
photovoltaic (PV) panels in residential houses has been rapidly accelerated tied to the high …

Battery energy storage control using a reinforcement learning approach with cyclic time-dependent Markov process

S Abedi, SW Yoon, S Kwon - International Journal of Electrical Power & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Scheduling efficient energy management system operations to respond to the unstable
customer demand, electricity prices, and weather increases the complexity of the control …

Demand response method for smart microgrids considering high renewable energies penetration

SM Hakimi, A Hasankhani, M Shafie-Khah… - … Energy, Grids and …, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the most important reasons of smart grids (SGs) is renewable energies (REs)
increase and demand response (DR). Present methods are not practical in the case of high …

Optimal day-ahead power procurement with renewable energy and demand response

S Kwon, L Ntaimo, N Gautam - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study proposes the demand-side power procurement problem to optimally reduce
consumer's energy cost. The motivation stems from pressing issues on an increase of …

Electrical market management considering power system constraints in smart distribution grids

P Astero, BJ Choi - Energies, 2016 - mdpi.com
Rising demand, climate change, growing fuel costs, outdated power system infrastructures,
and new power generation technologies have made renewable distribution generators very …

Deadline scheduling as restless bandits

Z Yu, Y Xu, L Tong - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of stochastic deadline scheduling is considered. A constrained Markov
decision process model is introduced in which jobs arrive randomly at a service center with …

Energy‐cost‐aware flow shop scheduling considering intermittent renewables, energy storage, and real‐time electricity pricing

A Fazli Khalaf, Y Wang - International Journal of Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The industrial sector is one of the major energy consumers that contribute to global climate
change. Demand response programs and on‐site renewable energy provide great …

Demand response in data centers: Integration of server provisioning and power procurement

S Kwon, L Ntaimo, N Gautam - IEEE transactions on Smart Grid, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data centers are among the fastest growing industries in the United States economy in terms
of IT service and usage of data. However, data centers consume an excessive amount of …

Optimal residential battery storage operations using robust data-driven dynamic programming

N Zhang, BD Leibowicz… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we consider the problem of operating a battery storage unit in a home with a
rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system so as to minimize expected long-run electricity costs …