Publications de Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

Energym: A Building Model Library for Controller Benchmarking

Paul Scharnhorst, Yves Stauffer, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Baptiste Schubnel

We introduce the Python-based open-source library Energym, a building model library to test and benchmark building controllers. The incorporated building models are presented with a brief explanation of their function, location and technical equipment. Fur ...

2021

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

Economic study of the participation of multiple energy resources in grid services markets

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

This paper presents a method to analyze the technical and economic potential of combining different types of resources to provide grid services, with a particular focus on battery systems. The paper proposes a modelling paradigm where resources are describ ...

2018

Enhancing the dispatchability of distribution networks through utility-scale batteries and flexible demand

Mario Paolone, Colin Neil Jones, Fabrizio Sossan, Emil Namor, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Luca Fabietti

In this paper, the problem of dispatching the operation of a distribution feeder comprising a set of heterogeneous resources is investigated. The main objective is to track a power trajectory, called the dispatch plan, which is computed the day before the ...

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

Robust Tracking Commitment

Colin Neil Jones, Altug Bitlislioglu, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

Many engineering problems that involve hierarchical control applications, such as demand side ancillary service provision to the power grid, can be posed as a robust tracking commitment problem. In this setting, the lower-level controller commits a set of ...

2017

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

Predictive Control methods for Building Control and Demand Response

Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

This thesis studies advanced control techniques for the control of building heating and cooling systems to provide demand response services to the power network. It is divided in three parts. The first one introduces the MATLAB toolbox OpenBuild which aims ...

EPFL2017

Constrained bundle methods with inexact minimization applied to the energy regulation provision problem

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

We consider a class of large scale robust optimization problems. While the robust optimization literature often relies on structural assumptions to reformulate the problem in a tractable form using duality, this method is not always applicable and can resu ...

2017