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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Smart Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 2742

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Interests: data mining; artificial intelligence; machine learning; energy systems
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Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to announce a Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications in Smart Energy Systems." The main goal of this Special Issue is to bring together the latest research and developments in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for smart energy systems.

As the demand for energy continues to increase, smart energy systems are becoming more prevalent in addressing the challenges associated with energy generation, distribution, and consumption. AI and ML have been identified as promising approaches to address these challenges, as they improve the efficiency, reliability, and sustainability of smart energy systems. Thus, this Special Issue aims to present original research articles, review papers, and case studies that demonstrate innovative applications of AI and ML in smart energy systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Machine learning for energy forecasting;
  • Artificial intelligence in demand response;
  • Intelligent control and optimization of energy systems;
  • Big data analytics for smart grids;
  • Reinforcement learning for energy management;
  • Deep learning for energy system modeling and simulation;
  • Cybersecurity and privacy in smart energy systems;
  • Human–machine interactions and decision making in smart energy systems.

We invite researchers and practitioners to submit their original research and review papers on these and other related topics. All submitted manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer-review process to ensure they are high quality and original. We look forward to your valuable contributions to this Special Issue.  

Dr. Marcin Blachnik
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Dudek
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • smart energy systems
  • modeling
  • energy market
  • smart homes
  • renewable energy sources
  • smart modeling
  • machine learning
  • optimization
  • artificial intelligence
  • forecasting
  • load management
  • renewable energy integration
  • energy efficiency optimization
  • demand response
  • power system stability
  • fault detection and diagnosis
  • cybersecurity in energy systems
  • big data analytics
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • distributed energy resources
  • energy storage systems

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Short-Term Energy Generation Forecasts at a Wind Farm—A Multi-Variant Comparison of the Effectiveness and Performance of Various Gradient-Boosted Decision Tree Models
by Marcin Kopyt, Paweł Piotrowski and Dariusz Baczyński
Energies 2024, 17(23), 6194; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17236194 - 9 Dec 2024
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High-quality short-term forecasts of wind farm generation are crucial for the dynamically developing renewable energy generation sector. This article addresses the selection of appropriate gradient-boosted decision tree models (GBDT) for forecasting wind farm energy generation with a 10-min time horizon. In most forecasting [...] Read more.
High-quality short-term forecasts of wind farm generation are crucial for the dynamically developing renewable energy generation sector. This article addresses the selection of appropriate gradient-boosted decision tree models (GBDT) for forecasting wind farm energy generation with a 10-min time horizon. In most forecasting studies, authors utilize a single gradient-boosted decision tree model and compare its performance with other machine learning (ML) techniques and sometimes with a naive baseline model. This paper proposes a comprehensive comparison of all gradient-boosted decision tree models (GBDTs, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Light Gradient-Boosting Machine (LightGBM), and Categorical Boosting (CatBoost)) used for forecasting. The objective is to evaluate each model in terms of forecasting accuracy for wind farm energy generation (forecasting error) and computational time during model training. Computational time is a critical factor due to the necessity of testing numerous models with varying hyperparameters to identify the optimal settings that minimize forecasting error. Forecast quality using default hyperparameters is used here as a reference. The research also seeks to determine the most effective sets of input variables for the predictive models. The article concludes with findings and recommendations regarding the preferred GBDT models. Among the four tested models, the oldest GBDT model demonstrated a significantly longer training time, which should be considered a major drawback of this implementation of gradient-boosted decision trees. In terms of model quality testing, the lowest nRMSE error was achieved by the oldest model—GBDT in its tuned version (with the best hyperparameter values obtained from exploring 40,000 combinations). Full article
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Research on Oil Well Production Prediction Based on GRU-KAN Model Optimized by PSO
by Bo Qiu, Jian Zhang, Yun Yang, Guangyuan Qin, Zhongyi Zhou and Cunrui Ying
Energies 2024, 17(21), 5502; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17215502 - 4 Nov 2024
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Accurately predicting oil well production volume is of great significance in oilfield production. To overcome the shortcomings in the current study of oil well production prediction, we propose a hybrid model (GRU-KAN) with the gated recurrent unit (GRU) and Kolmogorov–Arnold network (KAN). The [...] Read more.
Accurately predicting oil well production volume is of great significance in oilfield production. To overcome the shortcomings in the current study of oil well production prediction, we propose a hybrid model (GRU-KAN) with the gated recurrent unit (GRU) and Kolmogorov–Arnold network (KAN). The GRU-KAN model utilizes GRU to extract temporal features and KAN to capture complex nonlinear relationships. First, the MissForest algorithm is employed to handle anomalous data, improving data quality. The Pearson correlation coefficient is used to select the most significant features. These selected features are used as input to the GRU-KAN model to establish the oil well production prediction model. Then, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm is used to enhance the predictive performance. Finally, the model is evaluated on the test set. The validity of the model was verified on two oil wells and the results on well F14 show that the proposed GRU-KAN model achieves a Root Mean Square Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) and Coefficient of Determination (R2) values of 11.90, 9.18, 6.0% and 0.95, respectively. Compared to popular single and hybrid models, the GRU-KAN model achieves higher production-prediction accuracy and higher computational efficiency. The model can be applied to the formulation of oilfield-development plans, which is of great theoretical and practical significance to the advancement of oilfield technology levels. Full article
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Integrating an Ensemble Reward System into an Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for the Economic Dispatch of Small Modular Reactor-Based Energy Systems
by Athanasios Ioannis Arvanitidis and Miltiadis Alamaniotis
Energies 2024, 17(9), 2056; https://doi.org/10.3390/en17092056 - 26 Apr 2024
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Nuclear Integrated Energy Systems (NIES) have emerged as a comprehensive solution for navigating the changing energy landscape. They combine nuclear power plants with renewable energy sources, storage systems, and smart grid technologies to optimize energy production, distribution, and consumption across sectors, improving efficiency, [...] Read more.
Nuclear Integrated Energy Systems (NIES) have emerged as a comprehensive solution for navigating the changing energy landscape. They combine nuclear power plants with renewable energy sources, storage systems, and smart grid technologies to optimize energy production, distribution, and consumption across sectors, improving efficiency, reliability, and sustainability while addressing challenges associated with variability. The integration of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in NIES offers significant benefits over traditional nuclear facilities, although transferring involves overcoming legal and operational barriers, particularly in economic dispatch. This study proposes a novel off-policy Reinforcement Learning (RL) approach with an ensemble reward system to optimize economic dispatch for nuclear-powered generation companies equipped with an SMR, demonstrating superior accuracy and efficiency when compared to conventional methods and emphasizing RL’s potential to improve NIES profitability and sustainability. Finally, the research attempts to demonstrate the viability of implementing the proposed integrated RL approach in spot energy markets to maximize profits for nuclear-driven generation companies, establishing NIES’ profitability over competitors that rely on fossil fuel-based generation units to meet baseload requirements. Full article
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