Horizon Energy: E-DYCE - Dynamic Perspective of the Energy Performance Certification

EDYCE aims to investigate, develop and demonstrate a more systematic approach for the dynamic energy assessment (labelling) of the European building stock aiming at achieving better real energy class by detecting near real time potentials for the improvement of the building operation, operational faults (system and/or user) and recommendations for energy renovation.

The methodology proposed by the project focuses on the performance gap detection by utilising reliable modeling and building monitoring. The assessment consists of the collection of necessary static data, the development of dynamic models and detection of indoor environment and measurement of actual energy consumption. 

The E-DYCE approach is to combine established and widely available tools to create a methodology capable of implementing scalable, adaptable and accurate dynamic energy performance assessment.

Results:

The E-DYCE project managed to develop methods enabling to harvest operational data to illustrate actual energy and indoor environment performance. Moreover, EDYCE project managed to illustrate possibilities to shift from static steady-state calculations to dynamic while keeping the focus on energy and indoor environment. The final impact is the method that can provide nearly real-time assessment of the buildings based on operational and modelled data and communicate these based on the DEPC protocol composed of fine selected KPIs. This progress and work are envisioned to be fundamental to become better at:

• understanding buildings performance (DEPC protocol, EDYCE platform);
• reducing performance gaps (systematic KPIs targeting energy and indoor environment, use of monitored data);
• identifying successful energy renovation measures (operational data at single and multiple building level/canton level in Switzerland);
• becoming more credible for the end users - tenants, building owners (validated models, hourly based calculations, support from monitoring);
• reacting to energy misuse, faults, building drifting away from intended operation (weekly aggregated hourly data both from validated models and meters/sensors);
• communicating results and becoming user-friendly (results visualizations, EDYCE web platform, EDYCE mobile application);
• being the prime mover and inspiration for regulation bodies and policy makers (canton of Geneva and its subsidy program requiring real energy saving realization).  

MORE INFORMATION

CORDIS project factsheet: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/893945

Website: https://edyce.eu/

Twitter account: https://twitter.com/E_DYCE_EU

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/e-dyce/