# Adaptive Robust Energy Management Strategy for Campus-Based Commercial Buildings Considering Comprehensive Comfort Levels

## TL;DR

This paper introduces an adaptive robust energy management strategy for campus commercial buildings that balances cost minimization with comprehensive comfort levels, effectively handling uncertainties like demand response signals and renewable energy variability.

## Contribution

It develops a novel comprehensive comfort level model and applies adaptive robust optimization with Benders decomposition to optimize energy management under uncertainty.

## Key findings

- Effective cost reduction demonstrated in simulations
- Enhanced comfort levels across various appliances
- Robust handling of uncertainties in demand and renewable sources

## Abstract

Neglecting consumers' comfort always leads to failure or slow-response to demand response request. In this paper, we propose several comprehensive comfort level models for various appliances in campus-based commercial buildings (CBs). The objective of the proposed system is to minimize O\&M costs of campus-based CBs and maximize various comfort levels simultaneously under the worst-case scenarios. Adaptive robust optimization (ARO) is leveraged to handle various uncertainties within the proposed system: (i) demand response signals sending from the distribution system operator (DSO); (ii) arrival state-of-charge (SoC) conditions of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs); (iii) power outputs of renewable energy sources (RESs); and (iv) load demand of other appliances. Benders decomposition, such as column-and-constraint generation (C\&CG) algorithm, is used to solve the reformulated NP-hard min-max problem. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed optimal energy management strategy for campus-based CBs in both minimizing O\&M costs and maximizing comprehensive comfort levels.