Report
Teaser, summary, work performed and final results
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - TABEDE (TowArds Building rEady for Demand rEsponse)
Teaser
The comprehensive Europe 2020 Strategy is aimed at smart, sustainable and inclusive growth—calls for 20% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increasing share of renewable energy to 20%, and a 20% increase in energy efficiency. Demand response provides consumers with...
Summary
The comprehensive Europe 2020 Strategy is aimed at smart, sustainable and inclusive growth—calls for 20% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, increasing share of renewable energy to 20%, and a 20% increase in energy efficiency. Demand response provides consumers with control signals and/or financial incentives to adjust their consumption at strategic times, which is essential to achieve the 20-20-20 vision—by increasing energy system’s adequacy; reducing the need for investment in local network upgrade and peaking generation through peak shifting of consumption; and balancing distributed renewable energy generation in a cost-effective manner. A significant share of demand response potential across Europe (93 GW of load reduction and 247 GW of load advancing) comes from heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), washing and hot water storage in residential and commercial buildings.
To fully realize the European Demand Response potential, buildings must enter Demand Response schemes and expose all available flexibilities, including HVAC and thermal inertia, to the aggregator. However, several existing limitations need to be overcome:
• Interoperability and communication: A variety of communication technologies, protocols and data models are used in building automation and energy management systems and numerous smart grid standards exist.
• Cost: It is often cheaper to install a new BMS than to spend time and money to adapt an existing Building Management Systems (BMS).
• Functionality: Current BMSs do not support demand response applications out of the box. Moreover, market-ready interoperable solutions do not exist that considers DR potential of thermal inertia and comfort-related systems in buildings.
TABEDE aims to allowing all buildings to integrate energy grid demand response schemes through a low cost extender for BMS systems or as standalone system, which is independent of communication standards and integrate innovative flexibility algorithms.
Work performed
The activities carried out during the first period of the TABEDE project (M1-M18) can be summarized as followed:
• Based on state of the art review, definition and validation of the requirements and specifications that have to be met by the TABEDE platform;
• Development of the architectural design and the development of the BMS Extender and its integration into real environment;
• Development of the smart energy management components relative to the optimization components of the TABEDE solution;
• Development of the TABEDE simulation environment;
• Three Test site preparation for UK, IT & FR ;
• Launch of the stakeholder community.
The main results achieved can be summarized as follows:
• TABEDE detailed specifications validated;
• Web database available;
• BMS extender available;
• Demand response software cockpit available;
• Demand response emulator available;
• Integrated TABEDE system available;
• TABEDE analytics ready for implementation;
• TABEDE interfaces available;
• TABEDE stakeholder community reaches 100 relevant members across Europe.
Final results
\"TABEDE project will focus in particular on the achievement of five key impacts related to: (1) building energy savings; (2) share of distributed renewable energy sources; (3) grid investments; (4) 5-years post-project horizon commercialization of TABEDE key technological results and (5) openness of energy markets.
These are detailed below.
1. Key impact #1: TABEDE will enable the achievement of at least 30% energy savings in buildings that will be directly translated in end-user bill reduction and CO2 savings.
2. Key impact #2: Increase by 25% the penetration of renewable energy sources in the generation of electricity.
3. Key impact #3: Reduce/defer DSOs required investments in grid reinforcements and grid balancing by improving assets and network utilization.
4. Key impact #4: TABEDE solution will be ready to integrate the market at low cost within 5 years before the project.
5. Key impact #5: TABEDE will open the energy markets to new participants.
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Website & more info
More info: http://www.tabede.eu/.