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Future Demand Response Services for Blocks of Buildings

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Research surrounding demand response (DR) is beginning to consider how blocks of buildings can operate collectively within energy networks. DR at the level of a block of buildings involves near real-time optimisation of energy demand, storage and supply (including self-production) using intelligent energy management systems with the objective of reducing the difference between peak-power demand and minimum night-time demand, thus reducing costs and greenhouse gas emissions. To enable this it will be necessary to integrate and augment the telemetry and control technologies embedded in current building management systems and identify potential revenue sources: both of which vary according to local and national contexts. This paper discusses how DR in blocks of buildings might be achieved. The ideas proposed are based on a current EU funded collaborative research project called “Demand Response in Blocks of Buildings” (DR-BOB), and are envisaged to act as a starting-point for future research and innovation.

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    DR aggregation service providers are beginning to emerge in some EU energy markets. In Explicit Demand Response schemes (sometimes called “incentive-based”) the aggregated demand side resources are traded in the wholesale, balancing, and capacity markets by energy aggregation service providers [6].

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    The DR-BOB project’s aims and objectives are detailed in the DR-BOB Grant Agreement (No 696114) and as such they are also listed on the European Commission’s Community Research and Developments Information Service (CORDIS).

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    This figure while ambitious is based on the DR-BOB project partners experience of what is achievable during projects of this type.

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    IDEAS Collaborative Project (Grant Agreement No. 600071) which was co-funded by the European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Cooperation theme three, “Information and Communication Technologies’’, http://www.ideasproject.eu.

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The work presented was carried out as part of the DR-BOB project (01/03/16 - 28/02/19) which is co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation under grant agreement No 696114. The authors wish to acknowledge the European Commission for their support. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the contribution of the DR-BOB project partners to the work presented from: Siemens, Teesside University, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment; R2M Solutions; Nobatek, Gridpocket; Duneworks; Fondazione Poliambulanza; Servelect and the Universitatea Tehnica Cluj-Napoca.

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Crosbie, T., Vukovic, V., Short, M., Dawood, N., Charlesworth, R., Brodrick, P. (2017). Future Demand Response Services for Blocks of Buildings. In: Hu, J., Leung, V., Yang, K., Zhang, Y., Gao, J., Yang, S. (eds) Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 175. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47729-9_13

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