Model Predictive Control of Regulation Services from Commercial Buildings to the Smart Grid
Mehdi Maasoumy, Borhan Sanandaji, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

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Mehdi Maasoumy, Borhan Sanandaji, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "Model Predictive Control of Regulation Services from Commercial Buildings to the Smart Grid". IEEE American Control Conference, 4, June, 2014.

Abstract
We first demonstrate that the demand-side flexibility of the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system of a typical commercial building can be exploited for providing frequency regulation service to the power grid using at-scale experiments. We then show how this flexibility in power consumption of building HVAC system can be leveraged for providing regulation service. To this end, we consider a simplified model of the power grid with uncertain demand and generation. We present a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme to direct the ancillary service power flow from buildings to improve upon the classical Automatic Generation Control (AGC) practice. We show how constraints such as slow and fast ramping rates for various ancillary service providers, and short-term load forecast information can be integrated into the proposed MPC framework. Finally, we provide extensive simulation results to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methodology for enhancing grid frequency regulation.

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    Mehdi Maasoumy, Borhan Sanandaji, Alberto
    Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "Model Predictive Control of
    Regulation Services from Commercial Buildings to the Smart
    Grid". IEEE American Control Conference, 4, June, 2014.
  • BibTeX
    @inproceedings{MaasoumySanandajiSangiovanniVincentelli14_ModelPredictiveControlOfRegulationServicesFromCommercial,
        author = {Mehdi Maasoumy and Borhan Sanandaji and Alberto
                  Sangiovanni-Vincentelli},
        title = {Model Predictive Control of Regulation Services
                  from Commercial Buildings to the Smart Grid},
        booktitle = {IEEE American Control Conference},
        day = {4},
        month = {June},
        year = {2014},
        abstract = {We first demonstrate that the demand-side
                  flexibility of the Heating Ventilation and Air
                  Conditioning (HVAC) system of a typical commercial
                  building can be exploited for providing frequency
                  regulation service to the power grid using
                  at-scale experiments. We then show how this
                  flexibility in power consumption of building HVAC
                  system can be leveraged for providing regulation
                  service. To this end, we consider a simplified
                  model of the power grid with uncertain demand and
                  generation. We present a Model Predictive Control
                  (MPC) scheme to direct the ancillary service power
                  flow from buildings to improve upon the classical
                  Automatic Generation Control (AGC) practice. We
                  show how constraints such as slow and fast ramping
                  rates for various ancillary service providers, and
                  short-term load forecast information can be
                  integrated into the proposed MPC framework.
                  Finally, we provide extensive simulation results
                  to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed
                  methodology for enhancing grid frequency
                  regulation.},
        URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/256.html}
    }
    

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