Nilson Henao
Research Agent
Institut de recherche sur l’hydrogène (IRH)
Residential energy management and machine learning
Research agent at the Hydrogen Research Institute and affiliated researcher at UQTR. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from UQTR, and his work addresses smart grids, energy optimization, artificial intelligence applied to energy systems and energy data analysis. His research spans distributed energy resource management, microgrids, photovoltaic systems and battery storage.
Publications (73)
- Handling Consumer Uncertainty in Energy Reduction Bid Execution in the Spot Local Flexibility Market — IEEE Access Journal
- A Lightweight Kubernetes Based Architecture for Deploying Transactive Energy Systems — 2025 IEEE 13th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE) Conference
- A market-clearing mechanism based on hierarchical-spectral clustering with multiple similarity measures for flexibility spot markets — Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks Journal
- An Online Algorithm for Linear Optimal Power Flow Computations — 2025 International Conference on Power Engineering and Electrical Technology (PEET) Conference
- Design of an In-Home Energy Consumption Ambient Display for Real-Time Feedback — IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability Conference
- Distributed coordination of electric vehicles charging station and home energy management systems in residential neighborhood — International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Journal
- Impact of distribution locational marginal pricing and cost-sharing pricing mechanisms on fairness, efficiency, and voltage quality in transactive energy systems — Utilities Policy Journal
- Multi-agent reinforcement learning for energy management in microgrids with shared hydrogen storage — International journal of hydrogen energy Journal
- Penalty mechanism in transactive energy: A mechanism design approach for day-ahead markets — Energy Strategy Reviews Journal
- Risk-aware distributed chance constrained energy coordination in energy communities — Energy Journal
- Technical assessment framework for cost-sharing agreements in transactive energy systems — Computers & electrical engineering Journal
- The Advancements in Agricultural Greenhouse Technologies: An Energy Management Perspective — Sustainability Journal
- A Clearing Mechanism with Reduced Computational Complexity for Spot Flexibility Markets — Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy Journal
- A comprehensive cost mapping of digital technologies in greenhouses — Smart Agricultural Technology Journal
- Analysis of the building occupancy estimation and prediction process: A systematic review — Energy and Buildings Journal
- Clustering Alternatives in Market-Clearing for Transactive Energy Flexibility Spot Markets — 2024 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST) Conference
- Cooperative price-based demand response program for multiple aggregators based on multi-agent reinforcement learning and shapley-value — Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks Journal
- Deep reinforcement learning based dynamic pricing for demand response considering market and supply constraints — Smart Energy Journal
- Distributed stochastic energy coordination for residential prosumers: Framework and implementation — Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks Journal
- Energy management set-up to exploit the flexibility potential of a multi-unit residential apartment building in a cold climate region — IFAC-PapersOnLine Journal
- Hierarchical transactive home energy management system groups coordination through multi-level consensus sharing-based distributed ADMM — Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks Journal
- Is it worthwhile to participate in transactive energy? A decision-making model for empowering residential customers — Electricity Journal Journal
- Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Electric Thermal Storage utilizing Residual Components for Residential Consumer — IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability Conference
- Optimal Sizing and Operation of Electric Thermal Storage Systems for the Multi-zone Residential Apartment Building — Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Journal
- Optimal Sizing of a Hydrogen Backup Grid to Support Renewable Generation in Microgrids — 2024 12th International Conference on Smart Grid (icSmartGrid) Conference
- ORFLEX: Open Platform for Rapid Testing and Deploying Local Flexibility Markets — Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Journal
- Risk Analysis of Transactive Energy Retail Markets — IEEE transactions on industry applications Journal
- Shrinked-Space Search Method for LVCTs' Parameters Identification — IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982. Print) Journal
- Synthetic dataset generation of energy consumption for residential apartment building in cold weather considering the building's aging — Data in Brief Journal
- Uncertainty Quantification in Load Forecasting for Smart Grids Using Non-Parametric Statistics — IEEE Access Journal
- A Stochastic Approach to Integrating Electrical Thermal Storage in Distributed Demand Response for Nordic Communities With Wind Power Generation — IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications Journal
- Bi-Level Transactive Coordination of Energy Management Systems in a Community — 2023 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) Conference
- Co-Simulation Framework OpenDSS-Python to Consider Distribution Grid Constraints in a Transactive Energy System — 2023 14th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC) Conference
- Consensus and sharing based distributed coordination of home energy management systems with demand response enabled baseboard heaters — Applied Energy Journal
- Consensus-based time-series clustering approach to short-term load forecasting for residential electricity demand — Energy and Buildings Journal
- Greenhouse modelling and validation for optimizing the energy consumption in Québec context — Progress in Canadian Mechanical Engineering. Volume 6 Other
- OpenATE: A Distributed Co-simulation Engine for Transactive Energy Systems — 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE) Conference
- Towards Feasible Solutions for Load Monitoring in Quebec Residences — Italian National Conference on Sensors Journal
- A Bid Selection Model for Computational Cost Reduction of Transactive Energy Aggregator in Smart Grids — North American Power Symposium Conference
- A case study on obstacles to feasible NILM solutions for energy disaggregation in quebec residences — International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments Journal
- A Computationally Efficient Method for Energy Allocation in Spot Markets With Application to Transactive Energy Systems — IEEE Access Journal
- A Discount-Based Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing Strategy for Demand Response with Minimum Information Using Reinforcement Learning — IEEE Access Journal
- A Recommender System for Predictive Control of Heating Systems in Economic Demand Response Programs — IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications Journal
- A Stochastic Approach to Designing Plug-In Electric Vehicle Charging Controller for Residential Applications — IEEE Access Journal
- Distributed Co-simulation for Smart Homes Energy Management in the Presence of Electrical Thermal Storage — Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Journal
- Distributed Residential Demand Response Using Building Mass and Electric Thermal Storage System — 2022 IEEE 10th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE) Conference
- Energy Efficient Order Picking Routing for a Pick Support Automated Guided Vehicle (Ps-AGV) — IEEE Access Journal
- Risk Assessment of Local Forward Markets in a Transactive Energy System — 2022 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST) Conference
- A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Methods for Short-Term Load Forecasting Systems — IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications Journal
- A Compositional Kernel Based Gaussian Process Approach to Day-ahead Residential Load Forecasting — Energy and Buildings Other
- A Probabilistic Model to Predict Household Occupancy Profiles for Home Energy Management Applications — IEEE Access Journal
- Coordination of Smart Home Energy Management Systems in Neighborhood Areas: A Systematic Review — IEEE Access Journal
- Market-Clearing Mechanism for Demand Aggregation at the distribution level through Transactive Energy — 2021 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC) Conference
- Online Unsupervised Occupancy Anticipation System Applied to Residential Heat Load Management — IEEE Access Journal
- Prevision and planning for residential agents in a transactive energy environment — Smart Energy Journal
- A comprehensive review of approaches to building occupancy detection — Building and Environment Journal
- A Practical Approach to Residential Appliances on-Line Anomaly Detection: A Case Study of Standard and Smart Refrigerators — IEEE Access Journal
- Adaptive Machine Learning for Automated Modeling of Residential Prosumer Agents — Energies Journal
- Optimal Charging Scheduling of Electric Vehicles based on Principal Component Analysis and Convex Optimization — International Symposium on Industrial Electronics Journal
- Peak-to-Average Ratio Analysis of A Load Aggregator for Incentive-based Demand Response — International Symposium on Industrial Electronics Journal
- Software Architecture for Residential Prosumer Agents in a Transactive Energy System — 2020 IEEE PES Transactive Energy Systems Conference (TESC) Conference
- A Study on Markovian and Deep Learning Based Architectures for Household Appliance-level Load Modeling and Recognition — International Symposium on Industrial Electronics Journal
- Adaptive on-line unsupervised appliance modeling for autonomous household database construction — International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems Journal
- Power Estimation of Multiple Two-State Loads Using A Probabilistic Non-Intrusive Approach — Energies Journal
- A semi-synthetic dataset development tool for household energy consumption analysis — International Conference on Industrial Technology Journal
- Approach in Nonintrusive Type I Load Monitoring Using Subtractive Clustering — IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Journal
- Active power load modeling based on uncertainties for Non Intrusive Load Monitoring — International Symposium on Industrial Electronics Journal
- Development of Power Interface With FPGA-Based Adaptive Control for PEM-FC System — IEEE transactions on energy conversion Journal
- Long-Trip Optimal Energy Planning With Online Mass Estimation for Battery Electric Vehicles — IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Journal
- Tracking maximum efficiency of hydrogen genset used as electric vehicle range extender — International Journal of Hydrogen Energy Journal
- PEMFC low temperature startup for electric vehicle — Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Journal
- Proton exchange membrane fuel cells cold startup global strategy for fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicle — Journal of Power Sources Journal
- Two-Layer Energy-Management Architecture for a Fuel Cell HEV Using Road Trip Information — IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology Journal