Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management

Building Energy Flexibility and Demand Management looks at the high penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and the need for increased flexibility. Ensuring electrical power systems adapt to dynamic energy demand and supply conditions, the book supports the transition to a renewable energy future with current fluctuating power generation. By facilitating the penetration of renewable energy sources into the building sector and balancing electricity supply with demand in real-time, this book will provide fundamental concepts, theories, and methods to understand, quantify, design and optimize building energy flexibility.

In addition, the book also provides case studies with emerging technologies to enhance building energy flexibility and demonstrate how demand management strategies can utilize energy flexibility for demand reduction and load shifting. It will be useful for all those researchers and engineers working in flexible energy systems and advanced demand side management strategies.

• Focuses on how renewable energy and storage technologies can be appropriately designed and optimized to increase building energy flexibility
• Discusses how building energy flexibility can contribute to reduced operating costs and grid optimization
• Details how to effectively implement building energy flexibility for demand response, peak demand reduction and peak load shifting

Dr Zhenjun Ma is the Director of Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heating (AIRAH). Dr Ma has served as an editor and editorial board member for numerous journals on sustainable energy technologies. His research is focused on sustainable building energy technologies, building energy flexibility, thermal energy storage, and renewable energy in buildings. He has also contributed to numerous works from publishers of international repute and received several awards for his work with sustainable buildings.

Müslüm Arıcı is a faculty member in Thermodynamics and Heat Technique Division of Mechanical Engineering Department of Kocaeli University, Turkey. He completed Diploma Course at von Karman Institute, Belgium in 2007. He received his PhD degree from Kocaeli University in 2010. He worked in Fluid Mechanics Research Group, University of Zaragoza, Spain in 2014 and 2016-2017 as a visiting professor. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in refereed journal papers and presented numerous research papers in international conferences. He has been invited as an invited speaker in several international conferences. He has served as a guest editor in several journals and has been in the editorial board of several international journals.

Dr Amin Shahsavar was born in Urmia - Iran. He studied in Iran at the University of Urmia and Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman where he successfully completed a B.E. and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, respectively. As a scholar he continued for another degree, in graduate studies at Isfahan University of Technology pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering which was achieved with honors in 2015. His Dissertation was successfully defended in October 29 2015. Dr. Shahsavar is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at present, teaching heat transfer, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in both undergraduate and graduate levels at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kermanshah University of Technology, Kermanshah, Iran. He has published two books and more than 120 papers in the high-rank ISI journals. His main interests are the renewable energy systems, latent heat storage systems and nanofluids.