Energy management system and method for energy management

Abstract

An energy management system including at least one sensor and a controller is provided. The sensors provide environmental data. The controller is coupled to energy sources and appliances, and is configured to: receive user setting parameters and a device list file; determine appliance categories and assign decision variables based on the appliance categories; compute an electricity cost, a comfort penalty, and a health index; generate constraints based on the device list file, the user setting parameters, and the environmental data; formulate a mixed-integer programming equation based on the constraints; solve the mixed-integer programming equation to determine optimum operating states; and execute the operating state parameters and energy outputs based on the optimum operating states and the output power of the energy sources.

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