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Fall 2023
With the emergence of renewable energy resources, such as solar panels, wind turbines and plugin electric vehicles, there is an increasing need for peer-to-peer energy trading (P2P-ET) among small-scale energy producers, known as prosumers. Many recent studies have suggested blockchain for P2P-ET...
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Determining and Managing Contingency Reserve throughout the Lifecycle of Construction Projects
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Managing risk events and uncertainties plays a key role in the successful delivery of construction projects. To cover the implementation cost of risk response actions as well as the effects of risks on project goals, contingency reserve must be calculated and considered in the project budget....
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Reinforcement Learning-Driven Local Transactive Energy Market for Distributed Energy Resources
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Technological breakthroughs in renewable power generation, battery storage, electric mobility, and advanced data logistics are changing the electric grid. The huge influx of distributed energy resources (DERs), while important to curb carbon emissions, is not without consequences. The highly...
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Sizing, Operation, and Evaluation of Battery Energy Storage with Dynamic Line Rating and Deep Learning
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Integration of renewables has the potential to reduce society’s reliance on carbon-based fuels. Sizing renewable-energy installations is key to making a successful business case for the construction of new assets. Dynamic thermal line rating is the amount of current in real-time that a...
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{Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Energy Coordination in Demand Response Methods for Residential Distribution Networks
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In the field of collaborative learning and decision-making, this thesis aims to explore the effects of individual and joint rewards on the performance and coordination of agents in complex environments. The research objectives encompass two main aspects: firstly, to determine the objective...