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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DR-BOB (Demand Response in Block of Buildings)

Teaser

Summary

The aim of the DR-BOB project is to demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits of demand response in blocks of buildings for the different key actors required to bring it to market. Demand response is becoming increasing important for our society as the electricity demand continues to rise due to increasing number of electrical appliances and electric vehicles. Furthermore, such demand is experiencing ever higher levels of peak consumption, with the expected increase in differences between peak and off-peak demand in the following years. DR-BOB offers a solution to this problem aiming to achieve the following objectives:
- Integrate existing technologies to form the DR-BOB Demand Response Energy Management solution for blocks-of-buildings with a potential ROI of 5 years or less.
- Demonstrate the DR-BOB integrated solution at 4 sites operating under different energy market and climatic conditions in the UK, France, Italy and Romania with blocks-of-buildings covering a total of 274,665 m2, a total of 47,600 occupants over a period of at least 12 months.
- Realise up to 11% saving in energy demand, up to 35% saving in electricity demand and a 30% reduction in the difference between peak power demand and minimum night time demand for building owners and facilities managers at the demonstration.
- Provide and validate a method of assessing at least 3 levels of technology readiness (1-no capability, 2-some capability, 3-full capability) related to the technologies required for consumersâ€™ facilities managers, buildings and the local energy infrastructure to participate in the Demand Response Energy Management solution at any given site.
- Identify revenue sources with at least a 5% profit margin to underpin business models for each of the different types of stakeholders required to bring demand response in the blocks-of-buildings to market in different local and national contexts.
- Engage with at least 2,000 companies involved in the supply chain for demand response in blocks of buildings across the EU to disseminate the projects goals and findings.

Work performed

During the first 18 months, DR-BOB delivered as planned and on time 15 (60%) of its deliverables and achieved 5 (40%) of its milestones. The work mostly focused on definition of technical and business requirements, including demonstration scenarios at 4 pilot sites, integration of technologies, development of implementation, monitoring and evaluation strategies. Finalising the integration work, DR-BOB solution is ready for implementation at the pilot sites, and the implementation activities are currently underway. The project has an active webpage including its public deliverables, and periodically updated news and events section. Project dissemination activities resulted in 5 conference, 4 journal and 1 book publication. The project was additionally presented at several high profile events, e.g. EPBD-CA workshop on Smart buildings for a greener Europe: Emerging Policy and Practice, Exploratory Workshop on Smart Metering-based Innovation and the Measurement of Building Performance, organised by the UK Government Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and 2016 Energy Efficiency Information Day, per invitation from European Commission.

Final results

DR-BOB integrated solution represents a clear progress beyond the state of the art as it provides unique local demand response energy management capabilities including optimised use of local renewable energy sources and storage based on actual vs. predicted demand, and signals from (implicit or explicit) demand response markets. It includes a local energy manager, market emulator platform and consumer portal which all communicate to the cloud based virtual energy plant. Potential impacts of the project are:

- Demand response implemented at the level of blocks of buildings with intelligent energy management systems and without unreasonable effort and complexity.
The solution is currently being implemented in the 4 pilot sites: Teesside University campus in Middlesbrough (UK), Fondazione Poliambulanza hospital complex in Brescia (Italy), Montaury business/technology park in Anglet (France) and Technical University of Cluj-Napoca buildings in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). In total, the implementation includes 17 assets/buildings, of which 5 in the UK and Italy, 4 in Romania and 3 in France. Implementation activities also include the installation of additional monitoring equipment to improve the DR technology readiness level of each building. Costs of efforts to implement the solution in the 4 pilots are being tracked and will be recorded within a dedicated cost-template (already developed and shared among the partners). Tracked items of cost include purchase of equipment, resources required for installation and development and will also include all running costs once the solution is operational.

- Added value of installing demand response facilities for building blocks and on the willingness of consumers to participate in demand response.
To demonstrate the added value of blocks of buildings, the scenarios defined as part of the project (D2.2) include several DR programs involving assets belonging to more buildings within the same block. Five generic scenarios were defined and tailored to specific technical and market conditions for different pilot sites. The results of demonstration activities are expected to show whether blocks of buildings are globally able to provide more DR flexibility than individual buildings.
Each pilot site includes at least one scenario in which building occupants are engaged in DR activities. Between November 2017 and June 2018, around 2,000 occupants are expected to actively participate in realisation of DR scenarios, of which 1150 in the UK, 100 in France, 500 in Romania and 250 in Italy. The implementation and running of these scenarios will be followed by a qualitative assessment (due for completion by Nov 2018) that indicate the willingness of consumers to participate in DR on a regular basis.

- Measured energy and cost savings.
Energy and cost savings resulting from the DR-BOB solution will be measured in each pilot site using the defined KPIs (D5.1). This will allow us to capture the economic and environmental benefits of the DR-BOB solution in 4 representative blocks of buildings. The results will support achievement of the project objectives.

- Willingness and capability of consumers to participate in demand response solutions.
DR-BOB introduced and demonstrated application of 3 levels of of technology readiness (1-no capability, 2-some capability, 3- full capability) for consumersâ€™ buildings and local energy infrastructure to participate in demand response (Crosbie et al. 2017).

- Environmental and social impacts.
DR-BOB is expected to contribute to EU targets of 40% emission reduction and 27% share of renewable energy sources by 2030. During this time we expect to capture up to 600MW DR market, estimated to create up to 1.2 million jobs. Such estimates are based on documented EU DR potential for commercial buildings estimated at 38 GW till 2030 (COWI, 2016).