Integration of Air Conditioning and Heating into Modern Power Systems

Air Conditioning and Heating as Demand Response in Modern Power Systems.- Aggregated Air Conditioners for Providing Operating Reserve.- Heterogeneous Air Conditioner Aggregation for Providing Operating Reserve considering Price Signals.- Air Conditioner Aggregation for Providing Operating Reserve considering Lead-Lag Rebound Effect.- Inverter Air Conditioner Aggregation for Providing Frequency Regulation Service.- Integration of Flexible Heating Demand into the Integrated Energy System.- Incorporating Demand Response of Heat and Electricity in the Integrated Energy System.- Economical Evaluation of the Flexible Resources for Providing the Operational Flexibility in the Power System.

Yi Ding is a Professor in the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU), also a scholar of Thousand Talent Program for Young Outstanding Scientists of China. Before he joined in ZJU, he was an Associate Professor (permeant position) in Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He also held academic positions in University of Alberta, Canada and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was also a Consultant as Energy Economist for Asian Development Bank in 2010. He is the executive director of the Applied Energy UNiLAB (Smart Grid Market Mechanism, SGM2). He is an editorial member of 5 international journals including Applied Energy, Electric Power System Research, Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean  Energy, Intelligent Industrial Systems, Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems. He is also a guest editor for the special sections of IEEE Trans. on Power Systems and IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics. Dr. Ding is a member of IECworking groups for micro-grid standards. His research areas include power system planning and reliability evaluation, smart grid and complex system risk assessment.
Yonghua Song received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Chengdu University of Science and Technology, Chengdu, China, and the China Electric Power Research Institute, Beijing, China, in 1984 and 1989, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 1989 to 1991, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He then held various positions at Bristol University, Bristol, U.K.; Bath University, Bath, U.K.; and John Moores University, Liverpool, U.K., from 1991 to 1996. In 1997, he was a Professor of Power Systems at Brunel University, where he was a Pro-Vice Chancellor for Graduate Studies since 2004. In 2007, he took up a Pro-Vice Chancellorship and Professorship of Electrical Engineering at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool. He was a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua