Prof Vahid Vahidinasab's Outputs (16)

Rural and residential microgrids: concepts, status quo, model, and application (2022)
Book Chapter

Present-day electricity systems are moving toward decentralization, decarbonization, and democratization, which are known as the three 3Ds. Deregulation and digitalization are other important characteristics, which have arisen because of the active r... Read More about Rural and residential microgrids: concepts, status quo, model, and application.

Recognition of Electric Vehicles Charging Patterns with Machine Learning Techniques (2022)
Book Chapter

In recent years, the utilization of electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources (RESs) are highly interested in supplying some parts of the required energy and paving the way for reaching other goals, such as emission reduction. However, unc... Read More about Recognition of Electric Vehicles Charging Patterns with Machine Learning Techniques.

Active Buildings Demand Response: Provision and Aggregation (2022)
Book Chapter

Nowadays, the world is facing energy crisis and environmental issues. This is why the energy demand is increasing in different energy sections. The buildings as a large energy consumer are critical to face with these issues. To overcome these challen... Read More about Active Buildings Demand Response: Provision and Aggregation.

Active Buildings: Concept, Definition, Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Literature Review (2022)
Book Chapter

Due to the energy crisis and air pollution issues, energy-saving and demand flexibility in buildings have received significant attention in recent years since buildings are a large energy consumer sector in the today’s world. For this aim, the conven... Read More about Active Buildings: Concept, Definition, Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Literature Review.

The Role of Distributed Multi-vector Energy Assets in Economic Decarbonisation: Early Findings of a UK Demonstrator (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines the initial findings of a smart local energy system (SLES) demonstrator that at inception contained 1.96 MWp of renewable generation, 24 MWhp of electrical storage, 3.87 MWp of EV charging, 3.49 MWth of heat pump outputs and 36... Read More about The Role of Distributed Multi-vector Energy Assets in Economic Decarbonisation: Early Findings of a UK Demonstrator.

Concept, Definition, Enabling Technologies, and Challenges of Energy Integration in Whole Energy Systems To Create Integrated Energy Systems (2022)
Book Chapter

In recent years, the vector coupling of energy systems is in progress by integrating different energy vectors such as power, heat, and gas and also integration of different sectors such as residential, transportation, commercial, and industry parts f... Read More about Concept, Definition, Enabling Technologies, and Challenges of Energy Integration in Whole Energy Systems To Create Integrated Energy Systems.

Electric energy storage systems integration in energy markets and balancing services (2021)
Book Chapter

There is a global endeavor for decarbonization where the energy sector has a critical role toward this goal. Decarbonization strategy in energy systems asks for a rapid increase in uptaking the low carbon renewable resources that will cause some oper... Read More about Electric energy storage systems integration in energy markets and balancing services.

Cyber-Physical Smart Homes/Buildings (2021)
Book Chapter

Smart Charging and Operation of Electric Fleet Vehicles in a Smart City (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses a number of important areas relating to the electric vehicles (EVs), EV smart charging, and interaction of smart charging with the smart grid. It explores the technologies currently available for charging EVs and the rules and... Read More about Smart Charging and Operation of Electric Fleet Vehicles in a Smart City.

Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Markets: A Low-Cost Flexible Solution for Energizing Sustainable Smart Cities (2021)
Book Chapter

The proliferation of the distributed energy resources (DERs) into the demand side of the grid has led to the creation of a new agent, called prosumer at the distribution level. Prosumers are active agents that are able to produce, consume, and store... Read More about Peer-to-Peer Local Energy Markets: A Low-Cost Flexible Solution for Energizing Sustainable Smart Cities.

Participation of Active Buildings in Peer-to-Peer and Local Transactive Energy Markets (2021)
Book Chapter

In recent years, great environmental concerns have led to the transition of the energy sector by integrating distributed energy resources (DER) into the power system. Hence, the former passive buildings of the network are turning into active building... Read More about Participation of Active Buildings in Peer-to-Peer and Local Transactive Energy Markets.

Control and Management of Active Buildings (2021)
Book Chapter

The power network is becoming increasingly intermittent as the contribution from renewable energy generation rises. To maintain stability and functionality of the power network, storage of renewable energies and demand-side control techniques are req... Read More about Control and Management of Active Buildings.

Operation and Control of a Population of Active Buildings at Network Level (2021)
Book Chapter

Smart grid control and management is a growing research area that affects the global goals of net-zero emissions, increased renewable energy generation, and efficient energy management. Active buildings are the building blocks of the smart grid of th... Read More about Operation and Control of a Population of Active Buildings at Network Level.

A System-of-Systems Planning Platform for Enabling Flexibility Provision at Distribution Level (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter aims to study the distribution expansion planning (DEP) problem considering flexibility providers. In this study, demand response providers (DRPs) are introduced as the flexibility service providers, which will play an important role bes... Read More about A System-of-Systems Planning Platform for Enabling Flexibility Provision at Distribution Level.

Energy Management Systems for Microgrids (2021)
Book Chapter

Energy management system (EMS) has a vital role in the operation of a microgrid (MG) in the hourly or minute-by-minute time-scales. EMS coordinates with the other systems such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), maintenance scheduling, outage... Read More about Energy Management Systems for Microgrids.

Game Theory Application for Finding Optimal Operating Point of Multi-production System Under Fluctuations of Renewable and Various Load Levels (2020)
Book Chapter

In order to implement sustainable and efficient energy supply, precise mathematical tools are needed to determine an appropriate strategy at different levels of planning and operation. To this end, oligopoly equilibrium models, such as Cournot models... Read More about Game Theory Application for Finding Optimal Operating Point of Multi-production System Under Fluctuations of Renewable and Various Load Levels.