Energy Flexible Buildings with Energy Conversion and Management Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Energy flexible buildings are important for achieving carbon neutrality of the building sector as the largest contributor of global final energy use and global carbon emissions. The energy flexibility of a building is the ability to manage its energy demand and energy supply according to local climate conditions, user needs, and grid requirements. The energy flexibility of buildings will thus allow for demand-side management and load control, and thereby demand response based on the requirements of the energy grids. Robust energy planning, advanced energy conversion and management strategies are essential for energy-flexible buildings with eco-economics feasibility. In response to the increasing deployment of renewable energy systems, technical challenges are proposed, including a resilient and smart building system design, performance degradation of energy storages, energy congestion between renewable energy and utility grids, flexible microgrids to energy supply fluctuations in multienergy systems, and so on.

Novel energy management strategies advance the traditional power flow strategy in terms of off-peak grid electricity shifting, the enhancement of renewable energy penetration, and the performance degradation on energy storages. Furthermore, the energy paradigm transition from negative to positive energy systems can provide multidimensional effective approaches in energy planning, management, and interactive energy sharing for a transformation toward a carbon-neural district energy community.

Considering the interest in this topic, we are organizing a Special Issue entitled “Energy Flexible Buildings with Energy Conversion and Management Technologies”, aimed at reporting the most recent new findings by researchers and sector professionals, in the scope of the following themes.

Original manuscripts covering the following broad themes are invited from researchers and agencies, namely:

• Model predictive control;
• Energy-flexible buildings;
• Demand response;
• Battery and hydrogen energy storage;
• Energy management strategy;
• Grid-responsive buildings.

Dr. Yuekuan Zhou
Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Zhang
Dr. Zhengxuan Liu
Dr. Jia Liu
Guest Editors

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