Development of a Soft Actor Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Harnessing Energy Flexibility in a Large Office Building

no code implementations • 25 Apr 2021 • Anjukan Kathirgamanathan, Eleni Mangina, Donal P. Finn

The SAC DRL was found to learn an optimal control policy that was able to minimise energy costs by 9. 7% compared to the default rule-based control (RBC) scheme and was able to improve or maintain thermal comfort limits over a test period of one week.