Systems and methods for controlling and predicting heat load disturbances

A method for operating heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment and lighting equipment of a building space, the method comprising:

• predicting a heat load disturbance based on one or more potential operating states of the lighting equipment over a time period, the heat load disturbance affecting a temperature of the building space, wherein the lighting equipment operates to control a luminosity of the building space and affect the heat load disturbance;
• generating, in a coordinated manner, control decisions for the HVAC equipment and the lighting equipment based on the predicted heat load disturbance and subject to constraints on the temperature of the building space and the luminosity of the building space over the time period by adjusting the control decisions for the HVAC equipment and the lighting equipment based on a predicted effect of the control decisions for the lighting equipment on the predicted heat load disturbance, wherein the HVAC equipment operates to control the temperature of the building space by adding heat to the building space or removing heat from the building space;
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• operating the HVAC equipment and the lighting equipment based on the control decisions.

An environmental controller for a building space, the controller comprising:

• one or more processors;
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• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• predicting a heat load disturbance affecting a temperature of the building space based on an operational state of lighting equipment;
• generating control decisions for both the lighting equipment and heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) equipment by performing a coordinated control process comprising coordinating control of the HVAC equipment and the lighting equipment by adjusting the control decisions for the lighting equipment to affect the heat load disturbance and adjusting the control decisions for the HVAC equipment based on a predicted effect of the control decisions for the lighting equipment on the predicted heat load disturbance;
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• operating the lighting equipment and the HVAC equipment based on the control decisions for the lighting equipment and the control decisions for the HVAC equipment.