With the merger of multiple energy networks and the advancement of energy utilization technology

demand-side energy management has attracted extensive attention. Residential energy consumption plays an important role in demand-side energy management. Given this background

a mathematical model of a home energy hub is presented first

with the micro combined cooling

heat and power(mCCHP)generation as the energy conversion device. Then

electrical loads are classified into temperature-controlling loads

inflexible loads and flexible loads

and their mathematical models developed with their characteristics considered. Then

thermal loads are classified into hot water demand

air heating/cooling demand and convertible loads between electricity and gas

and multiple types of thermal load models developed. The concepts of thermal comfort and electric comfort are next introduced and employed to control the temperature in the home energy hub. On this basis

the home energy hub with thermal comfort and electric comfort take into account is modeled as a mixed integer linear programming problem with the objective of minimizing the total energy cost. Finally

a typical winter day and a typical summer day of a household are employed to demonstrate the essential characteristics of the method developed. This work is supported by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(No. 2013CB228202)and National Natural Science Foundation of China(No. 51477151).