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Ontario’s Changing Electricity System and the Role of Data

Doug Thomas (Vice-President of Information and Technology Services, and Chief Information Officer, IESO)

Abstract: Ontario’s electricity system continues to undergo rapid and fundamental change. These changes which are occurring at all levels of the electricity system from the largest generators, through the transmission and distribution systems, right through to businesses and individual home owners are altering how we generate, transmit, and consume electricity. Over the past few years, Ontario has seen the phase out of coal-fired generation, tremendous growth in renewable generation sources at both the transmission and distribution level, and a strong focus on conservation and demand management initiatives. All of this is leading to a significant and dramatic growth in both the quantity and quality of data that is required to manage the electricity system. At the individual homeowner level, new technologies and ways of managing electricity demand and consumption such as “power walls” and “micro grids” will profoundly affect how Ontarians consume electricity in the future. The installation of smart meters for over 4 million Ontario households not only allows individual homeowners to manage their consumption but represents a vast repository of information that we are beginning to take advantage of.
The presentation will discuss past, present, and future changes in the supply mix, the growing role of market mechanisms in the efficient management of the electricity system, the impact of smart meters, and how growing importance and value of data impacts each of those areas.

Keynote

Online Microgrid Energy Generation Scheduling Revisited: The Benefits of Randomization and Interval Prediction

Mohammad Hajiesmaili (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Longbo Huang (Tsinghua University)

Paper

Supply Scheduling and Usage-Based Pricing for Shared Storage in Adaptive Dynamic Islanding

Anamitra R Choudhury (IBM Research), Ramachandra Kota (IBM Research), Sampath Dechu (IBM Research), Sambaran Bandyopadhyay (IBM Research)

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A Network Calculus Foundation for Smart-Grids where Demand and Supply Vary in Space and Time

Pratyush Kumar (IBM Research Lab)

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Leveraging Energy Storage to Optimize Data Center Electricity Cost in Emerging Power Markets

Yuanyuan Shi (University of Washington), Bolun Xu (University of Washington), Baosen Zhang (University of Washington), Di Wang (Microsoft Research)

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How to Cool Internet-Scale Distributed Networks on the Cheap

Vani Gupta (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Stephen Lee (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Akamai Technologies), Rahul Urgaonkar (Amazon)

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Joint Capacity Planning and Operational Management for Sustainable Data Centers and Demand Response

Tan N. Le (Stony Brook University), Zhenhua Liu (Stony Brook University), Yuan Chen (Hewlett Packard Labs), Cullen Bash (Hewlett Packard Labs)

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An Online Incentive Mechanism for Emergency Demand Response in Geo-Distributed Colocation Data Centers

Qihang Sun (The University of Hong Kong), Shaolei Ren (University of California, Riverside), Chuan Wu (The University of Hong Kong), Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary)

Paper

Dependency-based FlexOffers: Scalable Management of Flexible Loads with Dependencies

Laurynas Šikšnys (Aalborg University), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University)

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Thermally-fair Demand Response for District Heating and Cooling (DHC) Networks

Saptarshi Bhattacharya (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Vikas Chandan (IBM Research India), Vijay Arya (IBM Research India), Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

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Li-Ion Storage Models for Energy System Optimization: The Accuracy-Tractability Tradeoff

Fiodar Kazhamiaka (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Karl-Heinz Pettinger (Hochshule Landshut)

Paper

Resting Weak Cells to Improve Battery Pack’s Capacity Delivery via Reconfiguration

Liang He (University of Michigan), Eugene Kim (University of Michigan), Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)

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Understanding Solar PV and Battery Adoption in Ontario: An Agent-Based Approach

Adedamola Adepetu (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo)

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In-situ Sensor Network for Microclimate and Urban Energy Modeling and Validation

Mukesh Jha (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Alexandros Tsoupos (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Prashanth Reddy Marpu (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Peter Armstrong (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)

Poster

A Framework for Occupancy-aided Energy Disaggregation

Guoming Tang (University of Victoria), Kui Wu (University of Victoria)

Poster

Decentralized Optimization of Energy Exchanges in an Electricity Microgrid

Benoît Vinot (G2ELab/Schneider-Electric/Inria), Florent Cadoux (G2ELab), Rodolphe Héliot (Schneider-Electric)

Poster

Inferring Non-Outage Events Using Meter Voltage Data

Ramachandra Kota (IBM Research), Vijay Arya (IBM Research), Daniel Bowden (DTE Energy)

Poster

Optimizing Energy Costs of Commercial Buildings in Developing Countries

Kumar Saurav (IBM Research), Heena Bansal (IBM Research), Megha Nawhal (IBM Research), Ashok P Kumar (IBM Research), Vikas Chandan (IBM Research), Vijay Arya (IBM Research), Sridhar R (IBM RESO), Babitha Ramesh (IBM RESO)

Poster

Towards Constraint-based Aggregation of Energy Flexibilities

Emmanouil Valsomatzis (Aalborg University), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University), Alberto Abelló (Polytechnic University of Catalonia), Katja Hose (Aalborg University), Laurynas Šikšnys (Aalborg University)

Poster

Combining Data with Physics to Monitor Solar Panels

Nikhil Hooda (IBM Research Lab), Pratyush Kumar (IBM Research Lab), Amar Azad (IBM Research Lab), Vijay Arya (IBM Research Lab), Mohammad I. Petra (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)

Poster

SunShade: Software-defined Solar Power

Akansha Singh (UMASS), Stephen Lee (UMASS), David Irwin (UMASS), Prashant Shenoy (UMASS)

Poster

Observability: Replacing Sensors with Inference Engines

Vitobha Munigala (IIT Bombay), Anshul Ajay Agarwal (IIT Bombay), Krithi Ramamritham (IIT Bombay), Vitobha Munigala (IIT Bombay)

Poster

Harmoney: Saving Energy Costs in Buildings through Harmonic Current Mitigation

Leena Markose (Tata Consultancy Services), Venkatesh Sarangan (Tata Consultancy Services), Arunchandar Vasan (Tata Consultancy Services), Ramasubramania Suriyanarayanan (Tata Consultancy Services), Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State University)

Poster

Multiple Time-scale Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Buildings

Rachel Kalaimani (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Catherine Rosenberg (University of Waterloo)

Poster

Collect, Compare, and Score: A Generic Data-driven Anomaly Detection Method for Buildings

Haroon Rashid (IIIT-Delhi), Pandarasamy Arjunan (IIIT-Delhi), Pushpendra Singh (IIIT-Delhi), Amarjeet Singh (IIIT-Delhi)

Poster

Speed Planning for Solar-Powered Electric Vehicles

Mingsong Lv (Northeastern University, China), Nan Guan (Northeastern University, China), Ye Ma (Northeastern University, China), Dong Ji (BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd), Erwin Knippel (BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd), Xue Liu (McGill University), Wang Yi (Uppsala University)

Paper

Range Prediction for Electric Bicycles

Lukas Gebhard (Universitat Passau), Lukasz Golab (University of Waterloo), Srinivasan Keshav (University of Waterloo), Hermann de Meer (Universitat Passau)

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Fuel Minimization of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles by Optimizing Drive Mode Selection

Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Khaled Elbassioni (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology), Chien-Ming Tseng (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)

Paper

Energy-Efficient Timely Transportation of Long-Haul Heavy-Duty Trucks

Lei Deng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Mohammad Hassan Hajiesmaili (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Minghua Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Haibo Zeng (Virginia Tech)

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Modelling Performance and Power Consumption of Utilisation-based DVFS Using M/M/1 Queues

Robert Basmadjian (University of Passau), Florian Niedermeier (University of Passau), Hermann de Meer (University of Passau)

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Energy-Efficient Disk Caching for Content Delivery

Aditya Sundarrajan (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Mangesh Kasbekar (Akamai Technologies), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Akamai Technologies)

Paper

Enabling Reliable Data Center Demand Response via Aggregation

Luyao Niu (Oklahoma State University), Yuanxiong Guo (Oklahoma State University)

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Shepherd: Sharing Energy for Privacy Preserving in Hybrid AC-DC Microgrids

Zhichuan Huang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Ting Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Yu Gu (IBM Research), Yanhua Li (WPI)

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Towards Provable Privacy Guarantees Using Rechargeable Energy-Storage Devices

Fabian Laforet (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Erik Buchmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Klemens Bohm (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

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Non-Intrusive Model Detection: Automated Modeling of Residential Electrical Loads

Srinivasan Iyengar (University of Massachusetts Amherst), David Irwin (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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