Model Predictive Control of Coupled Electrical and Thermal Networks: A Real-Time Co-Simulation Study

This presnetation briefly introduces a real-time model predictive control (MPC) framework that coordinates heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) flexibility, pumped thermal energy storage (PTES) and distributed generation while enforcing unbalanced three-phase AC network constraints. A convexified power-flow model enables tractable integration of detailed network physics within the MPC. The framework is validated through a high-fidelity MATLAB-RTDS co-simulation using low-latency UDP communication.