Energy IN TIME (EIT) project was submitted by a 13 partner’s consortium from different countries: Spain, Portugal, Ireland, France, Romania, UK, Italy and Finland, and is led by ACCIONA from Spain. The proposal relates to the topic: EeB.NMP.2013-4-Integrated Control System and Methodology to Monitor and Improve Building energy performance. The project is very complex with proven experience and expertise in different areas of the project that are needed, from all the partners. This powerful and representative European consortium, partner organizations having beside technical expertise also capabilities to develop dissemination and results exploitation activities.
Buildings Operational stage represents 80% of building’s life-cycle cost of which 50% is consequence of the energy use. Moreover, up to 90% of the buildings’ life cycle carbon emissions occur during their operational phase, mainly as consequence of the HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning), lighting and appliances’ energy use. Therefore, energy and cost saving strategies addressing this building operation phase will have a major impact in the building lifecycle cost.
Energy IN TIME project goes beyond existing building control techniques, mainly demand-response based, developing an integrated control & operation approach that will combine the state of the art modelling techniques and simulation software; and new control techniques to obtain automatic generation of optimal operational plans for buildings tailored to the actual requirements. This approach will allow reducing system inefficiencies and therefore contributing to significantly improve building energy efficiency and comfort.
The target for Energy IN TIME solution will be existing non-residential buildings, which present the building typologies that guaranties higher impact and room for improvement due to the variety and quantity of facilities and equipment covered and the operational management model used in them. A control tool will be implemented in the building energy management systems to be automatically and remotely operated. The methodology for the enhancing solution implementation will be defined for existing buildings and for its implementation in new buildings since its initial commissioning.