EiT was a speaker at EeB PPP Impact workshop. Brussels, 18-19 April, 2016

STAM, one of the EiT’s members, presented the work undertaken by the project regarding energy performance monitoring and management of energy efficient buildings at EeB PPP Impact workshop in Brussels on April, 18th and 19th.

STAM clarified the objectives of the Energy in Time project stressing a strong commitment of all the members to develop a Smart Energy Simulation Based Control method to reduce the energy consumption in the operational stage of existing non-residential buildings. New techniques will be developed based on the prediction of indoor comfort conditions and user behaviour performance to improve the Lifetime and Efficiency of Energy Equipment and Installations through continuous commissioning and predictive maintenance, while centralizing the remote control of different buildings in a single automated process.

He also described the EiT’s methology highlighting the main blocks such as Medium-long term decisions support tool (data mining techniques), Advanced Simulation models (virtual representation of the building behavior), Simulation Based Control (self-adaptable to the building-user’s current conditions) and Continuous Commissioning (a new method combining advanced monitoring, fault detection, diagnosis and adaptive tools to detect and implement corrective measures and predictive maintenance strategies).

The goal to present the EiT at this workshop was to state (1) the project’s uniqueness, (2) technical maturity of the global solution covering the phases of data acquisition, simulation, decision and support tools and (3) the expected outcomes for the market.

The frame of EeB PPP Impact workshop provided us with a unique opportunity to discuss the content and the format and share knowledge & experience in order to come up with a great and valuable output by the next meeting.

Fifth Energy in Time Steering Committee

On April 19th and 20th, the fifth Energy in Time project Steering Committee will take place within the incomparable framework that the hotel Levi Panorama, located in the Finish Laponia, allows to contemplate.

It is a moment to share the main results of each work team, display the achieved goals during these months of hard work, solve any inconvenience that may have occurred and prepare the project’s master lines of action in order to face its final phase.

With the operating results already defined, it is now the time to give the different products and technologies the shape that will be part of the integral solution that Energy in Time will represent when it is finished.

The Levi Panorama hotel is one of the demo sites developed by the project where the technical developments of the EiT initiative are being implemented and tested. In this way, the different project partners may verify the evolution of these advances in situ and how they begin to change the hotel’s energy efficiency.

H2020

Event for the H2020 project initiatives

The Enterprise Europe Network, the National Contact Points for NMP and the Knowledge Transfer Network have extended an open invitation to participate in an event that will be the launching point for H2020.

You can submit proposals until May 31st, 2016, that may be included in the 2017 call for proposals for projects of the European Union within the H2020 framework in the NMBP field  (Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology And Production).

This is a free-of-cost event for participants that will serve as a platform for presenting the 2017 calls for proposals, and will reveal the expectations and the main lines of action from the European Commission for this period.

The schedule includes presentations by the EC and its project evaluators and will allow participants to expose their proposals before them and the international experts on the subject.

The event will be centered on the calls for the following fields:

  • Advanced Manufacturing and Processing (AMP)
  • Nanotechnologies and Advanced Materials
  • Factories of the Future (FoF) and Robotics
  • Energy Efficient Buildings (EEB)
  • Sustainable Industrial Processes (SPIRE)
  • Bottom-UP Topics

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energy-efficiency

Energy efficiency is cheaper than the construction of power stations.

Energy efficiency is even cheaper than the construction of a new power plant. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has reached this conclusion, and will launch the results that it obtained through 14 energy-saving programs.

This report has found evidence that the average cost of energy efficiency programs is around 3.5 cents per kWh saved, which is a more favorable data and significantly lower than the 7.5 cents/kWh initially calculated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

This difference is due to the fact that the APA wanted to show that even with high energy efficiency costs, it is still worthwhile from an economic point of view. But the truth is that the costs are, as has already been mentioned, much lower.

This report serves as an evidence to administrators and legislators that they must be less reluctant to dedicate financial and technical resources to achieve energy efficiency programs in buildings.

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