Special Section on New Trends in Residential Energy Management

Abstract

The eleven papers in this special section focus on new trends in residential and home energy management. As an important branch of power demand side management, residential energy management plays an important role in reducing the emission and enhancing the energy efficiency in the energy delivery side. Recent technical advances bring significant transformations to energy end-users. First, increasing penetrations of residential renewable energy source, electric vehicle, and residential energy storage system have been transforming residential energy consumers to be “Energy Prosumers (Producer and Consumer. Second, the two-way communication infrastructure enables residential energy entities interact and exchange information flows with the external environment. Third, recent advances in ubiquitous sensing and metering technologies, such as Internet of Things, nonintrusive load monitoring, and advanced metering infrastructure, enable the deep understanding on behaviors of energy end-users and related environments. These technical advances consequently drive residential energy entities to become complex cyber-physical-social systems, which require newsolutions for coordinating, managing, and optimizing residential energy resources with the active participations of end users.