Development of Cost-Effective Solutions for Energy Management in Smart Buildings

This project aims at developing control strategies under the paradigm of Demand Response (DR) in the context of the Smart Grid in order to improve energy efficiency and to reduce operational cost in commercial buildings and communities. The emphasis is put on consumer side energy management strategies that able to balance energy demand and supply and to reduce the overall operational cost while providing an enhanced performance. The intern will implement a new control scheme based on framework of discrete-event systems for appliance coordination control and will further incorporate this method with such control techniques as model predictive control in order to enhance the performance. The work will be carried out in collaboration with Fusion Energie and the developed solution will be implemented and tested with their platforms.

Faculty Supervisor:

Guchuan Zhu

Student:

Partner:

Fusion Énergie

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Sustainability & the Environment; Information and Communications Technology

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program: