arXiv (Cornell University)
MuFlex: A Scalable, Physics-based Platform for Multi-Building Flexibility Analysis and Coordination
August 2025 • Ziyan Wu, Ivan Korolija, Rui Tang
With the increasing penetration of renewable generation on the power grid, maintaining system balance requires coordinated demand flexibility from aggregations of buildings. Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely explored for building controls because of its model-free nature. Open-source simulation testbeds are essential not only for training RL agents but also for fairly benchmarking control strategies. However, most building-sector testbeds target single buildings; multi-building platforms are relatively l…