Demand-Response Capacity Management in Commercial Buildings
A new project will demonstrate how smart grid technology will enable commercial buildings to provide flexibility services to existing flexibility markets and to DSOs.
Center for Energy Informatics has gained a fund for a new project: "Demand-Response Capacity Management in Commercial Buildings". The project will start on 1st of February 2015.
Objective
Pervasive application of smart grid technology is expected to enable the DSOs to automatically adjust the electricity consumption of end-customers to the actual load situation in the grid, and thereby maintain the necessary production/consumption balance, grid capacity and voltage limits.
The project’s objective is to demonstrate how smart grid technology will enable commercial buildings to provide flexibility services to existing flexibility markets and to DSOs.
Project Description
The project will demonstrate how smart grid technology will enable commercial buildings to provide flexibility services to existing flexibility markets and to DSOs. Demand-Response services are implemented in the project, and will be demonstrated using the main office Building, a newly established office building of 4000 m2, at the Green Tech Center in Vejle, and the 15 years old Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Building of 3000 m2, at the Southern Danish University.
The demonstration includes both technical investigations of the building’s demand-response capacity with respect to ventilation and cooling, and participatory user studies of how tenants experience the impact of demand-response events on building comfort. The aim of the user studies is to gain new insights, to increase the usability and acceptance of the demonstrated demand-response services.
Project Period
The project runs from 1st of February 2015 until 31st of January 2018.