Abdullah Jamal

Research

Building energy flexibility, demand response, and smart meter analytics.

My doctoral research focuses on how public buildings can be analyzed as flexible energy resources, especially where smart meter data, electric heating, weather sensitivity, and demand response are important.

01

Load Disaggregation & Smart Meter Analytics

Research on hourly smart meter data, separating space-heating and non-space-heating electricity demand, and interpreting energy demand patterns in public buildings.

hourly smart meter dataspace heating loadnon-space-heating loadpublic buildings
02

Weather-Augmented Heating Demand Estimation

Work on weather-normalized analysis, multivariate weather features, heating demand estimation, outdoor temperature sensitivity, and robust building energy analysis methods.

weather-normalized energy analysisheating demand estimationweather-augmented energy analysisbuilding energy analysis
03

Electric Heating Flexibility & Demand Response

Analysis of flexible electricity demand from electric heating loads in public buildings, with attention to temporal flexibility, demand response potential, and practical limits in observed data.

electric heating flexibilitydemand responseflexible electricity demandtemporal flexibility
04

Buildings as Flexible Energy Resources

Research interests include buildings as virtual power plants, flexibility exchange between buildings, energy communities, renewable energy integration, and coordinated energy management.

buildings as virtual power plantsenergy communitiesrenewable energy integrationenergy management

Research directions

Current and developing work

These directions describe active doctoral work, method development, and related research interests.

Doctoral research

Building Energy Load Disaggregation

Data-driven analysis of hourly smart meter data to separate space-heating and non-space-heating electricity demand in buildings, with emphasis on public buildings and interpretable energy-use patterns.

smart meter dataload disaggregationspace heating loadpublic buildings

Research direction

Weather-Augmented Heating Demand Estimation

Development of weather-augmented approaches for estimating heating-related electricity demand using outdoor temperature and additional weather variables to improve building energy analysis.

heating demand estimationweather-normalized analysisweather-augmented energy analysisbuilding energy analysis

Ongoing research

Electric Heating Flexibility in Public Buildings

Quantification of electric heating flexibility and demand response potential in public buildings, with attention to temporal flexibility, grid-aware operation, and practical limitations in observed data.

electric heating flexibilitydemand responseflexible electricity demandpublic buildings

Future research direction

Buildings as Flexible Energy Resources

Research interest in buildings as flexible energy resources within energy communities, virtual power plants, renewable energy integration, and coordinated energy management.

buildings as virtual power plantsenergy communitiesrenewable energy integrationenergy management

Method development

Open Tools for Building Energy Analytics

Interest in reproducible Python and R workflows for smart meter analytics, building energy analysis, energy demand estimation, and transparent research communication.

PythonRreproducible researchbuilding energy analytics

Topics

Research keywords

building energy flexibilitydemand responseenergy flexibility in buildingsbuilding energy analysisdata-driven building energy analysissmart meter analyticssmart meter dataload disaggregationspace heating loadnon-space-heating loadheating demand estimationweather-augmented energy analysisweather-normalized energy analysiselectric heating flexibilityenergy auditenergy management in buildingspublic buildingssmart buildingsrenewable energy integrationbuildings as virtual power plantsenergy communitiesflexible electricity demandNorwayØstfold University of Applied SciencesPython for building energy analysisR for building energy analysisreproducible energy analytics