Title
Reinforcement learning in sustainable energy and electric systems: a survey
Abstract
The dynamic nature of sustainable energy and electric systems can vary significantly along with the environment and load change, and they represent the features of multivariate, high complexity and uncertainty of the nonlinear system. Moreover, the integration of intermittent renewable energy sources and energy consumption behaviours of households introduce more uncertainty into sustainable energy and electric systems. The operation, control and decision-making in such an environment definitely require increasing intelligence and flexibility in the control and optimization to ensure the quality of service of sustainable energy and electric systems. Reinforcement learning is a wide class of optimal control strategies that uses estimating value functions from experience, simulation, or search to learn in highly dynamic, stochastic environment. The interactive context enables reinforcement learning to develop strong learning ability and high adaptability. Reinforcement learning does not require the use of the model of system dynamics, which makes it suitable for sustainable energy and electric systems with complex nonlinearity and uncertainty. The use of reinforcement learning in sustainable energy and electric systems will certainly change the traditional energy utilization mode and bring more intelligence into the system. In this survey, an overview of reinforcement learning, the demand for reinforcement learning in sustainable energy and electric systems, reinforcement learning applications in sustainable energy and electric systems, and future challenges and opportunities will be explicitly addressed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.arcontrol.2020.03.001
Annual Reviews in Control
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Reinforcement learning,Sustainable energy and electric systems,Deep reinforcement learning,Power system,Integrated energy system
Journal
49
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1367-5788
2
0.36
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ting Yang16413.99
Liyuan Zhao220.36
Wei Li322725.46
Albert Y. Zomaya45709454.84