Short Summary

My PhD project aims to solve the problem of making communities, i.e. collections of buildings, more flexible consumers of energy by creating new control strategies for heating and ventilation systems. Energy flexibility in buildings means capability to shift energy consumption from one time period to another. The developed strategies are implemented in real buildings to test their capability to enable flexibility and implications on indoor comfort and heating systems. This is important since we need energy systems producing less carbon emissions while efficiently meeting requirements of the modern society.

The project is done under the LoLo Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand and supervised by Dr. Bianca Howard and Dr. David Allinson.

Where am I now?

The project started in October 2018 and I am currently working towards completing my first objective by reviewing requirements set by electricity markets for flexibility and how energy asset managers control their portfolios consisting of power plants and other resources when operating in electricity markets. I am also developing the control strategy and planning the experimental phase starting in October 2019.

You can find more information below. If you have any questions or ideas feel free to contact!

Test houses are used to develop and test control strategies enabling flexibility

The Long Version

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Publications

El Geneidy, R., Otto, K., Ahtila, P., Kujala, P., Sillanpää, K., & Mäki-Jouppila, T. (2017). Increasing energy efficiency in passenger ships by novel energy conservation measures. Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology, 4177(October), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/20464177.2017.1317430

El Geneidy, R. S., & Howard, B. (2018). Review of techniques to enable community-scale demand response strategy design. USim2018 - Urban Energy Simulation. Retrieved from https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/36259

Acknowledgements

This research is made possible by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) support for the London-Loughborough (LoLo) Centre for Doctoral Research in Energy Demand (grant EP/H009612/1).