FOREFRONT: From conventional towards energy optimized and smart building – framing a new paradigm in utilisation of smart heat data

Project Details

Description

Green Transition calls for lowering energy demand and an increased use of intermittent energy sources, such as wind and solar power. Buildings account for 40% of all energy use and therefore, have a prominent role in this transition. They
will need to use less energy and operate in a smart way, by meeting the needs of building owner and the local energy system. Yet, 73% of Danish houses are conventional buildings equipped with energy meters lacking IoT enabled devices.
However, the dynamic heat data will be obligatory collected by smart meters (SM) for every building connected to district heating grid from 2027. The FOREFRONT project hypothesizes that by developing a novel approach to building performance assessment and optimization based on the real-time data from SM, this new smartness can be beneficial for the building owner in meeting the energy efficiency
goals and for the energy sector in increasing the efficient utilization of buildings' storage capacity for network balancing.
Project is funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark - Green Transition (Danmarks Frie Forskningsråd (DFF), tematisk forskning -Grøn omstilling)
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date01/06/202131/08/2024

Collaborative partners

  • Aalborg Forsyning A/S
  • Uppsala University (Project partner)

Keywords

  • Smart heat meters
  • Digitalisation
  • Data-driven renovation

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