The paper presents a reinforcement learning framework for designing solar PV adoption policies under uncertainty, integrating RL with a stochastic agent‑based model to simulate yearly adoption over a 16‑year horizon. Policymakers can choose annual incentives such as grants, subsidised loans, and feed‑in tariffs, and the study evaluates three RL algorithms—PPO, SAC, and TD3—within a scalarised reward framework that balances adoption gains against costs. Results show clear trade‑off patterns, with TD3 yielding the highest adoption at higher cost, PPO achieving the lowest cost with fewer adopters, and a balanced PPO policy offering a middle ground, all outperforming static baseline policies.
By Iias Faiud, Jonaid Shianifar, Michael Schukat, Karl Mason
arXiv:2606. 00811v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data centers now account for 4.
By Dana Golden, Aruna Balasubramanian, Niranjan Balasubramanian
arXiv:2607. 03176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how households consume electricity in response to socioeconomic and climatic drivers is important for decision-makers designing energy policies in a changing climate and under geopolitical tensions.
By Enrico Cofler, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti, Massimo Tavoni
The paper introduces a hybrid framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to assist in designing behavioural and scenario specifications for an agent‑based model of solar photovoltaic adoption by Irish dairy farms. It integrates bounded behavioural rubrics—conservative, balanced, and optimistic—with structured scenario specifications into a calibrated ABM, preserving the original techno‑economic adoption mechanism while adding controlled behavioural modulation and scenario‑driven uncertainty analysis. Experiments across various policy settings and Monte Carlo simulations show stable, economically plausible outcomes, with up to a 13% increase in behavioural adoption compared to a logistic baseline, without causing unrealistic saturation dynamics.
By Iias Faiud, Hossein Khaleghy, Michael Schukat, Karl Mason
arXiv:2411. 12193v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid growth of distributed energy resources (DERs) presents both opportunities and operational challenges for electric grid management.
By Wenbin Zhou, Shixiang Zhu
arXiv:2607. 18272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prosumers equipped with distributed generation and flexible loads form autonomous cyber-physical energy systems that control local resources and participate in local energy markets with minimal human intervention.
By Lukas Peter Wagner, Raoul Bisson, Felix Gehlhoff
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
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
LoaDiff is a diffusion-based generative model that produces year-long, sub-hourly smart‑meter electricity consumption time series. It can be conditioned on static household attributes like appliance ownership and dynamic factors such as calendar dates and outdoor temperature. Evaluations on three residential datasets show that LoaDiff generates realistic, diverse load profiles, limits memorization, retains useful information for downstream tasks, and responds coherently to conditioning changes.
By Mariia Baranova, Adrien Petralia, Etienne Le Naour, Nathan Etourneau, Guillaume Hofmann, Themis Palpanas
arXiv:2606. 02049v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The increasing integration of renewable energy sources into power systems, particularly in buildings equipped with photovoltaic (PV) panels and energy storage systems, introduces significant complexity in energy systems.
By Hallah Shahid Butt, Qiong Huang, G\"okhan Demirel, Kevin F\"orderer, Erfan Tajalli-Ardekani, Simnon Waczowicz, Luigi Spatafora, Veit Hagenmeyer, Benjamin Sch\"afer
arXiv:2607. 24341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent studies use Large language models (LLMs) to simulate human opinions and decisions by prompting models with demographic, attitudinal, or persona-based descriptions.
By Weijie Xia, Stefanie Horian, Hanyue Huang, Queena K. Qian, Jie Yang, Pedro P. Vergara Barrios
The paper introduces DR‑Gym, an open‑source, Gymnasium‑compatible environment that simulates electric utility demand‑response programs at the market level. It uses a regime‑switching wholesale price model calibrated to real extreme events and physics‑based building demand profiles, providing a rich observational space and a configurable multi‑objective reward function for reinforcement learning. Baseline strategies and data snapshots demonstrate the simulator’s realism and learnability.
By Jose E. Aguilar Escamilla, Lingdong Zhou, Xiangqi Zhu, Huazheng Wang