Scholars in the University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC) won the Best Paper Award of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Sustainable Power and Energy (iSPEC). The authors are UM postdoctoral researcher Hui Hongxun, PhD student Yu Peipei, Assistant Professor Zhang Hongcai, Associate Professor Dai Ningyi, and Chair Professor Yonghua Song. The topic is about the regulation capacity evaluation of large-scale heterogeneous residential air conditioning loads for improving the power system flexibility.
The IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference (iSPEC) was held in December 23-24 in Nanjing, with the theme of “Energy Transition for Carbon Neutrality.” It was co-sponsored by the CSEE (Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering) and IEEE PES (IEEE Power & Energy Society). The iSPEC2021 is a hybrid event, offering worldwide perspective and participation to network with a wide range of delegates from the utility, product, consultancy, service and business sectors of the power and energy industry.
The SKL-IOTSC Smart Energy Group is dedicated to studying opportunities and challenges brought by clean energy, controllable loads, energy coupling, and cyber-physical systems. Members of the group carry out cutting-edge research based on the internet of things, with the aim of promoting the development of clean, low-carbon, efficient, and safe smart energy systems. The research is supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund, Macao SAR (file number: 0137/2019/A3, SKL-IOTSC(UM)-2021-2023).
