This paper presents TESLA, an agent-based application for optimizing the energy use in commercial buildings. TESLA’s key insight is that adding flexibility to event/meeting schedules can lead to significant energy savings. TESLA provides two key contributions: (i) three online scheduling algorithms that consider flexibility of people’s preferences for energy-efficient scheduling of incrementall...

In spite of having been first introduced in the last half of the ninetieth century, the debate about the possible rebound effects from energy efficiency improvements is still an open question in the economic literature. This paper contributes to the existing research on this issue proposing an unbiased measure for economy-wide rebound effects. The novelty of this economy-wide rebound measure st...

The profits of the ESCO (Energy Services Company) and EU (Energy Using Organization) in the EPCP (energy performance contracting project) rely on the signing of the shared savings contract and the successful operation of the project, and the probability of the project’s success is decided by the complementary efforts of the ESCO and EU. However, the effort selection of the two sides face the bi...

Birds frequently use the energy present in atmospheric currents to conserve their energy while flying. Although energy in the form of thermal updrafts is routinely used by pilots of fullscale and model sailplanes, the energy in atmospheric turbulence has not been utilized to its full potential. This paper deals with the design of simple control laws to extract energy from atmospheric turbulence...

Dynamic Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is the main standard used in online video streaming services, given that more than 1.2 billion pay subscribers around world use this standard. This fact entails billions of connections between servers and client displays. These devices involved connection an Ethernet Interface Card consumes energy. In order to reduce energy consumption, IEEE proposed 802.3az E...

This paper suggests a method how to predict electric lighting energy savings for photocell controls in daylit spaces taking manual blind control into account. The method predicts lower but supposedly more “realistic” lighting energy savings than conventional simulation approaches. On the other hand, predicted savings are larger than those predicted by ASHRAE 90.1 power adjustment factors. The m...