The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources (RES) in power systems intensifies
the need of enhancing the flexibility in grid operations in order to accommodate the …

This paper surveys the opportunities and challenges in an emerging area of research that
has the potential to significantly ease the incorporation of renewable energy into the grid as …

Demand response is a crucial aspect of the future smart grid. It has the potential to provide
significant peak demand reduction and to ease the incorporation of renewable energy into …

Demand response is crucial for the incorporation of renewable energy into the grid. In this
paper, we focus on a particularly promising industry for demand response: data centers. We …

Megawatt-scale datacenters have emerged to meet the increasing demand for IT
applications and services. The hunger for power brings large electricity bills to datacenter …

Data centers are the backbone of a growing number of activities in modern economies.
However, the large increase of digital content, big data, e-commerce, and Internet traffic is …

Balancing a data center's reliability, cost, and carbon emissions is challenging. For instance,
data centers designed for high availability require a continuous flow of power to keep …

Datacenters, being major consumers of power, can play an important role in the efficient
operation of electrical grids. This paper develops an optimization framework to allow …

This paper presents a load control method for small data centers, which are rarely studied
although they account for more than 50% of all data centers. The method utilizes the data …

Serverless computing has rapidly emerged as a popular deployment model. However, its
energy and carbon implications are unclear and require exploration. This paper takes a look …