The paper compares rule‑based and reinforcement‑learning (RL) pricing mechanisms for peer‑to‑peer electricity trading in residential photovoltaic communities. Rule‑based benchmarks—bill‑sharing, mid‑market rate, and supply‑demand‑ratio pricing—outperform the best RL policy in a PV‑only setup, while RL policies achieve higher community savings when battery storage is added. Across both configurations, SDR‑shaped pricing outperforms multiplier‑based parameterization, but benefit distribution remains heterogeneous among households.
By Pablo Benalcazar, Maciej Kalka, Wilian Guam\'an, Jacek Kami\'nski
arXiv:2608. 16238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing share of renewable energy in power systems creates a need for fast-response and flexible resources to maintain system stability.
By Chunyang Zhao, Stoyan Trenchev, Shi You, Chresten Tr{\ae}holt
arXiv:2606. 26400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems are changing how complex operational tasks are coordinated, introducing a new paradigm for connecting heterogeneous data sources and automating processes.
By J\^onatas Augusto Manzolli, Ali Eslami, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Jiangbo Yu
The paper introduces EqGrid, a closed‑loop simulation that uses a low‑frequency, open‑weight LLM policy agent to set price, carbon limits, and subsidies for a community of empirically‑grounded household personas, while high‑frequency multi‑agent RL traders clear a continuous double auction on a physically constrained IEEE‑33‑bus grid. It demonstrates that the LLM can reduce energy‑poverty inequality—lowering the Gini of energy burden from 0.351 to 0.305 and mean burden by 28%—without increasing net grid cost, and that a compressed sub‑1B model retains 92–95% of this benefit at dramatically lower inference energy. The study also establishes a compute‑efficiency frontier and a decoupled‑safety design that eliminates grid violations.
whyItMatters":"By showing that a lightweight LLM can effectively manage energy markets to reduce poverty and inequality while staying energy‑efficient, the work offers a practical, low‑carbon AI solution for humanitarian energy‑poverty interventions."
By Kunal Jadhav, Siddhesh More
The increasing share of renewable energy in power systems creates a need for fast-response and flexible resources to maintain system stability. With the expansion of electricity markets and ancillary...
CityLearn v3 is a configurable simulation and evaluation framework designed for realistic control studies of renewable energy communities (RECs). It models dynamic participation, equipment availability, service deadlines, and data quality, allowing for flexible-load deadlines, demand-response requests, local energy sharing, and failure scenarios within a single environment. The framework records controller inputs, distinguishes requested actions from applied ones, and provides reference controllers, performance indicators, and trajectory exports for comprehensive comparisons across communities.
By Tiago Fonseca, Luis Lino Ferreira, Armando Sousa, Ava Mohammadi, Zoltan Nagy
arXiv:2609.23590v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Battery energy storage system (BESS) dispatch must preserve operational feasibility while declining price spreads reduce the margin available to pay fo...
By Kuanlin Chen, Chen-Wei Kuo, Cheng-En Ou
arXiv:2606. 00811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data centers now account for 4.
By Dana Golden, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian
arXiv:2608. 08691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Residential virtual power plants (VPPs) can provide grid flexibility by shifting household demand, but physical flexibility becomes dependable capacity only when residents authorize a plan and the promised response is delivered.
By Xudong Wu, Zeqing Wu, Jiarui Zhang, Xuhao Fan, Ziang Ding, Yuming Zhuang, Mingqi Yuan, Yilun Du, Hongjie Jia, Yunfei Mu, Jiayu Chen
arXiv:2606. 16051v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Residential battery energy storage systems (BESS) are increasingly deployed alongside photovoltaic (PV) generation to reduce household energy costs under volatile time-of-use (TOU) tariffs.
By Dawood Butt, Nandor Verba
arXiv:2608. 12363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European countries are debating policies to mitigate the increased energy costs caused by renewed geopolitical tensions, while pursuing decarbonization and electrification.
By Javier Gonzalez-Ruiz, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Alice Di Bella, Paolo Mastropietro, Jose Pablo Chavez-Avila, Massimo Tavoni
arXiv:2603. 26678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI and renewable energy are increasingly framed as a "power couple," on the premise that surging AI demand will accelerate clean-energy investment, yet concerns persist that AI will entrench fossil-fuel carbon lock-in.
By Luyi Gui, Tinglong Dai