Advanced Modeling and Optimization Technologies for Building Energy Efficiency

Dear Colleagues,

With the increase in distributed building photovoltaic, intelligent power consumption and power storage devices (such as charging piles), buildings are not only users of electric energy but also play a role in electric energy production, peak shaving, and storage. Determining how to reasonably dispatch and absorb the energy supply and demand between buildings and reduce power abandonment has posed new challenges to research on building energy systems. For example, two-way interaction between buildings and power grid requires information about instantaneous building energy consumption with high accuracy; to ensure the balance of energy supply and demand within the grid, it is necessary to establish multiscale building community energy demand models. Such problems are supported by a profound information science and engineering background and have important significance in practical applications.

This Special Issue aims to collect scientific contributions presenting results dealing with advanced modeling and optimization technologies for building energy systems, including but not limited to energy management, demand-side modeling, design and optimization of new energy systems within building energy efficiency, or related areas.

Dr. Kangji Li
Dr. Xu Chen
Guest Editors

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