...Zhong Guo; Aditya Chaudhari; Austin R. Coffman; Prabir Barooah We consider the problem of optimal control of district cooling energy plants (DCEPs) consisting of multiple chillers, a cooling tower, and a thermal energy storage (TES), in the presence of time-varying electricity prices...

... thermal states, in terms of zone temperatures, evolve with HVAC input under various disturbances, such as internal heat gains. These dynamics should be included in the formulation of the optimization problem so that the occupant thermal comfort constraint is respected when searching the optimal control...