Retraction of: Scientific Reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10958-7, published online 02 May 2022


The Authors have retracted this Article.


Following the publication of the Article, the authors have identified a number of errors which invalidate the results reports in this paper. First, in “Case studies”, subheading “Basic data”, for the simulation the output data shown in Figure 2 were used as input. Since these are not real data, the results of the simulation are incorrect. Second, in “Methods: solving an integrated demand response IES optimization dispatch model for electricity and heat”, in the description of the application of the IGWO to the IES scheduling optimisation, in Step 4 the Authors incorrectly used the FCM clustering algorithm, which is not an appropriate solution. This makes the whole process incorrect. Finally, in “Integrated demand response model for electric and thermal multiple loads” the Authors did not consider the real-time capacity variation which makes the mathematical model incorrect.


All Authors agree with the retraction and its wording.