Research on Key Technologies for Operational Optimization of Integrated Energy Systems in Smart Parks
15/09/2025
15/09/2025
Smart city development focuses on optimizing intelligent energy systems and aiming to achieve modernization targets for energy consumption and carbon emissions in cities.
Associate Professor Zhang Hongcai of the University of Macau, with the support of FDCT, is leading a research team to study the operation and control of integrated energy systems in smart parks, aiming to facilitate positive interactions among different energy models. The research seeks to improve energy utilization efficiency and promote the integration of clean energy, focusing on key technologies for modeling and operational optimization of integrated energy systems covering electricity, gas, cooling, heating, and transportation. The team is conducting interdisciplinary and innovative research in areas such as integrated energy supply and demand modeling and forecasting, coordinated operational optimization of multi-energy coupled systems, and adaptive control of distributed flexible resources, in order to enable integrated energy systems in smart parks to achieve energy saving, reduced consumption, and lower carbon emissions.
The project has developed data-driven modeling and operational optimization technologies for low-carbon integrated energy systems in parks. It enables digital modeling of complex energy networks, such as AC/DC distribution networks and district cooling systems, and further supports the coordinated and optimized operation of multi-energy coupled systems involving electricity, gas, cooling, heating, and transportation. This enables optimal energy efficiency in the park’s energy system while maintaining user comfort, such as building temperature. This technology has already been demonstrated and validated through the University of Macau’s district cooling system and the district cooling system of the State Power Investment Corporation in Hengqin.
The research team has applied their findings to the China Southern Power Grid and the State Power Investment Corporation, achieving significant energy and cost savings, as well as reduced carbon emissions. The research outcomes will also be applied to the newly planned “Electric Power Technology Industrial Park” of the Guizhou Power Grid, providing the park’s energy management system with core capabilities for energy supply and demand forecasting and operational optimization. This will support the park in achieving low-carbon and even carbon-neutral operation.
Associate Professor Zhang Hongcai of the University of Macau, with the support of FDCT, is leading a research team to study the operation and control of integrated energy systems in smart parks, aiming to facilitate positive interactions among different energy models. The research seeks to improve energy utilization efficiency and promote the integration of clean energy, focusing on key technologies for modeling and operational optimization of integrated energy systems covering electricity, gas, cooling, heating, and transportation. The team is conducting interdisciplinary and innovative research in areas such as integrated energy supply and demand modeling and forecasting, coordinated operational optimization of multi-energy coupled systems, and adaptive control of distributed flexible resources, in order to enable integrated energy systems in smart parks to achieve energy saving, reduced consumption, and lower carbon emissions.
The project has developed data-driven modeling and operational optimization technologies for low-carbon integrated energy systems in parks. It enables digital modeling of complex energy networks, such as AC/DC distribution networks and district cooling systems, and further supports the coordinated and optimized operation of multi-energy coupled systems involving electricity, gas, cooling, heating, and transportation. This enables optimal energy efficiency in the park’s energy system while maintaining user comfort, such as building temperature. This technology has already been demonstrated and validated through the University of Macau’s district cooling system and the district cooling system of the State Power Investment Corporation in Hengqin.
The research team has applied their findings to the China Southern Power Grid and the State Power Investment Corporation, achieving significant energy and cost savings, as well as reduced carbon emissions. The research outcomes will also be applied to the newly planned “Electric Power Technology Industrial Park” of the Guizhou Power Grid, providing the park’s energy management system with core capabilities for energy supply and demand forecasting and operational optimization. This will support the park in achieving low-carbon and even carbon-neutral operation.
High-precision energy demand forecasting using multi-source, multi-dimensional big data
Schematic diagram of a low-carbon park AC/DC hybrid distribution network
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Office hours: Monday to Thursday: 9:00-13:00, 14:30-17:45；Friday: 9:00-13:00, 14:30-17:30；Tel.: 28788777
Copyright(C) 2021 ALL right reserved.