The research project Virtual Power Plant for Smart Grid Ready Buildings and Customers uses a dormitory in Aarhus as a full-scale energy lab. Until 2015, the researchers will carry out the world’s most radical energy monitoring programme.
Twenty-four hours a day, the researchers log the energy use, humidity level, CO2 emission and flow of water, heat and electricity with a few seconds interval for each one of the 132 apartments. Furthermore, the building will receive weather prognoses about temperature, wind conditions and the direction of the sun.
The goal is that this information automatically regulates the building’s total heat and ventilation need with the lowest possible energy use and the most optimal comfort level for the residents.
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