RESILIENT

"coupling REnewable, Storage and ICTs, for Low carbon Intelligent Energy maNagemenT at district level"

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Growing investments in distributed energy resources (DER) – renewable distributed energy generation combined with demand response, energy storage, plug-in electric vehicles and active management of distribution networks – will require new business and technology platforms to manage the increased level of diversity and complexity of global energy management. The increasing variability of both generation and loads will also require more sophisticated and decentralized decision making. The RESILIENT project aims to design, develop, install and assess the energy and environmental benefits of a new integrated concept of interconnectivity between buildings, DER, grids and other networks at a district level. The RESILIENT approach will combine different innovative technologies including smart ICT components, optimized energy generation and storage technologies, also for RES, integrated to provide real time accounts of energy demand and supply at a district level and assist in decision-making process. The project strategy relies on a comprehensive R&D and demonstration approach. The proposed integrated concept will be first modelled and simulated for different typologies of buildings and different climates and then installed, monitored and evaluated in three pilot projects (including residential and non residential buildings) in the UK, Belgium and Italy. These demonstrators will be used to assess the energy and environmental benefits of the new integrated concept and also to validate models and technologies in order for the concept to be easily replicable throughout different climatic areas. The major impact from RESILIENT will be the development of a complete value chain where the annual primary energy demand of buildings collated at a district level is decreased by at least 20% compared to their expected energy performance summed on an individual building basis, this energy gain being associated with a decrease of more than 20% of the CO2 emission reference level.'

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EU-funded scientists are seeking effective methods to manage all the phases related to energy production, transformation and distribution.

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Currently, remarkable efforts are being devoted to integrate fossil with renewable energy (RE) sources in a bid to achieve higher RE shares and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. However, growing investments in distributed energy resources (mainly RE sources) call for new ways to handle the increased diversity and complexity of energy management. Along with these, more sophisticated and decentralised decision making is also needed to cope with variable energy generation and load profiles.

Against this backdrop, scientists initiated the EU-funded project 'Coupling renewable, storage and ICTs, for low carbon intelligent energy management at district level' (http://www.resilient-project.eu/ (RESILIENT)). The project's innovative concept is based on interconnecting buildings, distributed energy resources, grids and other networks to ultimately assess the associated energy and environmental benefits.

Scientists aim to efficiently manage and correlate different energy sources and energy storage technologies. In particular, RESILIENT leverages combined heat and power units and RE technologies such as wind turbines, photovoltaic panels and solar thermal collectors. It also combines heating networks for energy distribution, thermal or electrical storage technologies, and an energy management system for providing real-time accounts of energy demand and supply. Based on these, RESILIENT greatly assists in decision making. Specifically, it controls the time to operate each energy resource, the power levels, the time to store energy and the priority loads.

Scientists have hitherto developed tools for simulating thermal and electrical grids, and developed thermal, electrical and heat models for buildings. A combined statistic and stochastic approach has been used to calculate the generated loads for each building. Activities related to further increasing the modelling capabilities of the present library functions are still ongoing. These will be used to simulate the RESILIENT pilot projects and adapt models to the specific characteristics of the demonstration sites.

The integrated concept will be installed and validated in three pilot projects in Belgium, Italy and the United Kingdom. These demonstrators will be used to assess the energy and environmental benefits and to validate models and technologies to apply them afterwards throughout Europe.