Publications by Faran Ahmed Qureshi

Ancillary Services Provision Utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu

Fast-charging stations that supply energy to electrical vehicles at high power rates may incorporate energy storage to avoid high currents to the grid and reduce peak-demand costs. We demonstrate the potential for utilizing such infrastructure for the prov ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

System and method for operating a combination of heterogeneous energy resources for fast grid services

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

The present invention concerns a method of controlling a set of electrical power resources in an electrical power grid managed by a power grid operator. The set comprises a first electrical power resource with a first electrical power response frequency an ...

2019

Multi-time scale coordination of complementary resources for the provision of ancillary services

Colin Neil Jones, Luca Fabietti, Christophe Salzmann, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This paper presents a predictive control scheme for coordinating a set of heterogeneous and complementary resources at different time scales for the provision of ancillary services. In particular, we combine building thermodynamics (slow), and energy stora ...

2018

Hierarchical control of building HVAC system for ancillary services provision

Colin Neil Jones, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

2018

Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Service Using Commercial Buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti, Altug Bitlislioglu

Frequency control reserves are a fundamental mechanism in the current electric power system to preserve the balance between demand and generation of active power at all times. The traditional approach is to exploit conventional power plants for frequency r ...

2018

Economic Advantages of Office Buildings Providing Ancillary Services with Intraday Participation

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Ali Ahmadi Khatir

Controlling the consumption profile of office buildings can be used to provide balancing services to the power grid at a financial benefit without violating its thermal comfort constraints. The economic advantage of such a service is a reduction in the tot ...

2018

Provision of Ancillary Services utilizing a Network of Fast-Charging Stations for Electrical Buses

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Altug Bitlislioglu

We demonstrate how charging infrastructure for electrical vehicles can be utilized for the provision of Ancillary Services to the Power Grid. Fast- charging stations that supply energy to vehicles at high power rates in- corporate energy storage to prevent ...

2018

Experimental Demonstration of Buildings Providing Frequency Regulation Services in the Swiss Market

Colin Neil Jones, Luca Fabietti, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This paper investigates the potential of commercial buildings to offer ancillary services to the grid. We consider a tracking procurement inspired by secondary frequency control, where the resource needs to commit to a nominal consumption profile ahead of ...

2017

Experimental Implementation of Frequency Regulation Services Using Commercial Buildings

Colin Neil Jones, Ioannis Lymperopoulos, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti, Altug Bitlislioglu

IEEE2017

Predictive Control of Buildings for Demand Response and Ancillary Services Provision

Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This thesis develops optimization based techniques for the control of building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for the provision of demand response and ancillary services to the electric grid. The first part of the thesis focuses ...

EPFL2017