Embedding Temporal Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Models for Energy System Control

Amirhossein Heydarian Ardakani; Johann Hurink; Ian Gibson; Elham Shirazi

doi:10.1145/3679240.3734686

Embedding Temporal Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Models for Energy System Control

Amirhossein Heydarian Ardakani^*
, Johann Hurink
, Ian Gibson
, Elham Shirazi

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A reinforcement learning (RL) agent can capture energy system dynamics from historical data to improve its decision-making. However, the RL agent struggles to fully understand temporal patterns in scenarios with high fluctuations. This study addresses this gap by embedding temporal awareness into RL agents for energy system control. The proposed approach integrates generation and load time series into the state representation using a temporal embedding module based on long short-term memory (LSTM). The method is evaluated on highly variable patterns from the Netherlands to demonstrate the performance of temporal RL decision-making in different conditions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	E-ENERGY 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1002-1004
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400711251
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3679240.3734686
Publication status	Published - 16 Jun 2025
Event	16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems, E-Energy 2025 - Rotterdam, Netherlands Duration: 17 Jun 2025 → 20 Jun 2025 Conference number: 16

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Conference	16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems, E-Energy 2025
Abbreviated title	E-Energy
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Rotterdam
Period	17/06/25 → 20/06/25

Keywords

Energy System Control
Long Short-Term Memory
Reinforcement Learning
Sequential Decision-making
Temporal Awareness

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Ardakani, AH, Hurink, J, Gibson, I & Shirazi, E 2025, Embedding Temporal Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Models for Energy System Control. in E-ENERGY 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1002-1004, 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems, E-Energy 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 17/06/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3679240.3734686

Embedding Temporal Awareness in Reinforcement Learning Models for Energy System Control. / Ardakani, Amirhossein Heydarian; Hurink, Johann; Gibson, Ian et al.
E-ENERGY 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2025. p. 1002-1004.

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