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CityLearn v3: A Configurable Simulation and Evaluation Framework for Realistic Control Studies of Renewable Energy Communities

Tiago Fonseca·Luis Lino Ferreira·Armando Sousa·Ava Mohammadi·Zoltan Nagy
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Renewable energy communities (RECs) coordinate buildings, photovoltaic generation, batteries, electric vehicles and flexible loads. Controller studies often simplify changing participation, equipment availability, service deadlines and data quality, so lower cost or peak demand can conceal missed services or infeasible power requests. This paper presents CityLearn v3, a configurable simulation and evaluation framework for REC control studies under these conditions. It represents changing members and assets, flexible-load deadlines, demand-response requests, local energy sharing, and data or equipment failures within one simulation environment. Building and phase power limits constrain controllable requests, while a declared timestep preserves consistent power-to-energy accounting. The framework records controller inputs and distinguishes requested actions from those applied to the simulated equipment. Reference controllers, service- and constraint-aware performance indicators, and trajectory exports support comparisons within and across communities. Software checks and application examples examine service delivery, electrical constraints, settlement and changing scenarios; a synthetic high-frequency trace replay illustrates how aggregation can conceal short peaks without changing annual energy. Together, these records allow aggregate performance to be interpreted alongside service failures, action reductions and participant-level outcomes.

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Tiago Fonseca, Luis Lino Ferreira, Armando Sousa, Ava Mohammadi, Zoltan Nagy. 2026-09-18. CityLearn v3: A Configurable Simulation and Evaluation Framework for Realistic Control Studies of Renewable Energy Communities. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21570

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