The ERANet-RegSys project EPC4SES - EPC based Digital Building Twins for Smart Energy Systems​, aims at exploiting data previously acquired as input data for calculating energy performance of buildings for optimizing design and operation of smart network/grids.

The project investigates all usage scenarios for data resulting from the EPC process, either for policy support, planning or operation of smart energy systems. The digital twin is a virtual representation of the building, mainly consisting of an electrical analogion of the thermal behavior of the building, allowing simulation and model predictive control MPC of the buildings and the connected energy network (district heating, power grid). 

By improving planning tools – pushing their quality – fundamental transformation of the energy system shall be eased. For this first set of applications based on EPC building and GIS data, stakeholders for regional energy plans shall be addressed and one 1D simulation tool shall be defined, allowing improved regional energy plans profiting from digital representations of buildings.

Specific objectives of the tool are:

• Help to reduce CO2 impacts of increasing market penetration of air conditioning and heat pumps when developing electric mobility. 
• Support decarbonizing local energy supply to buildings, planning incentives for (deep) renovation and shift towards renewable based waste heat-based district heating and district cooling.

Start date: November 2019 - End date: December 2022

Partners

• Western Norway research Institute
• Wellness Techgroup
• SEnerCon GmbH
• Effiziente.st Energie- und Umweltconsulting
• Cleopa GmbH
• Salzburg University of Applied Sciences

More information here.