Newsletter [August 2021]
International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-21 | 15-17 September
Annex 83 is organising a special session (IS13: Positive Energy Districts) in the SEB-21. Here are titles and authors from the Annex papers:
- A systematic approach towards mapping stakeholders in different phases of PED development – Extending the PED toolbox.
Caroline Cheng, Vicky Albert-Seifried, Laura Aelenei, Han Vandevyvere, Oscar Seco, M. Nuria Sánchez, Mari Hukkalainen.
- A preliminary analysis of the characterizations of positive energy districts.
Xingxing Zhang, Santhan Reddy Penaka, Samhita Giriraj, Maria Nuria Sanchez, Paolo Civiero.
- Fundamentals of energy modelling for Positive Energy Districts.
Luigi Bottecchia, Andrea Gabaldón, Tony Castillo, Silvia Soutullo, Saeed Ranjbar, Ursula Eicker.
- Reviewing challenges and limitations of energy modelling software in the assessment of PEDs using case studies.
Alberto Belda, Emanuela Giancola, Karen Williams, Sanam Dabirian, Muhyiddine Jradi, Rosaria Volpe, Soroush Samareh Abolhassani, Alberto Fichera, Ursula Eicker.
- State of the art on sustainability assessment of Positive Energy Districts: methodologies, indicators and future perspectives.
Francesco Guarino, Adriano Bisello, Dorian Frieden, Joana Bastos, Alberto Brunetti, Maurizio Cellura, Marco Ferraro , Alberto Fichera, Emanuela Giancola, Matthias Haase, Julia Kantorovitch, Camilla Neumann, Rose Mankaa, Ivan Luque Segura, Marzia Traverso, Giovanni Tumminia, Rosaria Volpe, Xiaojin Zhang.
- Sustainable Development Goals and performance measurement of Positive Energy Districts: a methodological approach.
Maurizio Cellura, Alberto Fichera, Francesco Guarino, Rosaria Volpe.
Webinar 'Spine modelling tools' | 7-10 September
4 days presentations for introduction and case examples of Spine energy system modelling tools.
Webinar: http://www.spine-model.org/spine_webinar.htm
Newsletter [July 2021]
Upcoming workshop of PED initiatives hosted by EERA JPSC
Annex 83 is participating in the Workshop of PED initiatives on preliminary results: Towards a European PED definition. The workshop will be held on the 17th of September 2021, 10:00 – 12:00 CEST and is hosted by EERA JPSC. The workshop aims to discuss preliminary results of the alignment core group on PED definition and integrated approach and also discuss further PED definition process.
Update from Subtask B
In the bi-monthly meetings of Subtask B, members make presentations on urban data and energy modelling of PED to increase the collaboration between partners. In the last meeting on the 24th of June 2021, Subtask B had presentations on district heating networks from the University of Valladolid with a large monitoring data set available and from the University of Catania on agent based modelling.
In the next meeting on the 25th of August 14:00-16:00 CEST, the two following presentations are planned:
- Xingxing Zhang “Digital Twin for Accelerating Sustainability in Positive Energy District: A Review of Simulation Tools and Applications”,
- Ursula Eicker “Concepts for an automated workflow of district scale building and energy system modeling”.
New Annex 83 publication
"Characterizing Positive Energy District (PED) through a Preliminary Review of 60 Existing Projects in Europe" Xingxing Zhang, Santhan R. Penaka, Samhita Giriraj, Maria N. Sánchez, Paolo Civiero, and Han Vandevyvere. 2021. Buildings 11, no. 8: 318.
https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11080318
Newsletter [June 2021]
Reporting Annex 83 in the IEA EBC ExCo meeting
Dr. Francesco Reda, the operating agent of Annex 83, made a presentation in the IEA EBC ExCo meeting on 17.6.2021 and reported the progress of the following work of the Annex:
- the established Annex website, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts
- the PED invited session to be held in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings seb-21.kesinternational.org/cmsISdisplay.php
- the published articles by Annex 83
- the Annex 2nd Working Meeting held in April 2021
- the Annex 83 created PhD students network
- the main achievements per each SubTask of the Annex.
The Annex progress was very well received by the ExCo supervising member.
Announcement of a workshop organised by Concordia University
Library workshop for Urban Platform: Use of data libraries and catalogue concepts for energy systems, occupancy, green roofs and other urban domains
Time: Monday, July 12, 2021, 9 to 11 AM EST
Workshop presenter: Kai Brassel, Hamburg/Germany
Participation link: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/3850961259
The goal of the workshop is to understand data modelling for urban scale applications and to implement such data models in catalogues. These catalogues could be a basis to share information with country specific performance and/or cost data.
Background reading: Kai Brassel shared a tutorial that he wrote especially for domain experts: Kai (Guest): How to Create Parameter Catalogs for Simulations (posted in CERC NextGenCities Platform / Parameter Catalogs at 20. April 2021 19:30:35 MESZ).
NOTE: if you don’t have access to Concordia Teams, you can find it here as well: https://transfer.hft-stuttgart.de/pages/neqmodplus/parameter-catalogs-for-simulation/.
The document gives some „historic“ context - IT and project wise - in chapter one. Second chapter, then, explains step-by-step how to practically start with data-modelling. Again, not all technicalities may be important for the first read, but at least you should digest, and ideally exercise, the chapter „How to Implement Parameter Catalogs with Eclipse“. In there you find further references on data modelling, and especially you should carefully look at the 18 slides about Object Oriented Modelling and Domain Models by Steve Easterbrook (University of Toronto, http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/CSC340F/slides/11-objects.pdf).
Newsletter [May 2021]
Paper submissions for SEB21 Conference
The deadline for papers submission for the PED session of the SEB21 conference has been extended to the 16th of June! This will give us the chance to increase the Annex participation to the conference. However, do not wait until the last day and try to submit your paper according to the original schedule by the 4th of June.
Webinar on LowCarbon, Positive Energy Resilient Communities
There will be a webinar that will be held on October 12, 2021, 11:00 am 2:30 pm EST. This Webinar is related to the project: CAE Roadmap to Resilient Ultra-Low Energy Built Environment with Deep Integration of Renewables in 2050. More information at https://annex83.iea-ebc.org/event?EventID=7673.
Newsletter [April 2021]
Annex 83 new publication
“A techno-economic analysis of an optimal self-sufficient district” Ari Laitinen, Oscar Lindholm, Ala Hasan, Francesco Reda, Åsa Hedman.
Energy Conversion and Management. Volume 236, 15 May 2021, 114041.
Open access publication https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2021.114041
Note: if you make a publication related to your contribution in Annex 83, please indicate the Annex in the Acknowledgment so that it can shown in the Annex publications news and on the webpage https://annex83.iea-ebc.org/.
Note: If you have a new publication and want it to be listed on Annex 83 website (https://annex83.iea-ebc.org/publications), please send it by email to Anna Kozlowska (anna.kozlowska@ait.ac.at).
Twitter @Annex83_IEA
rom now on Annex 83 has Twitter account @Annex83_IEA which we strongly suggest to follow.
2nd Working Meeting [April 2021]
THE EBC Annex 83 held its second Working Meeting on 21st and 22nd of April 2021. Around 100 participants from 23 countries took part in several sessions held online. The subtask leaders shared the current status of their groups work and presented the next planned steps.
Since last Working Meeting, Subtask A worked on first version of ST-A data collection table. Subtask B organised two workshops, developed a first version of the PED cases technology review and created a repository for open-source database for PEDs. Subtask C presented the current status of the creation of the repository and informed about upcoming workshop on PED KPIs which will be held on 19-22 of October. Subtask D shared an update on demo case template creation and ongoing collection of PED guidelines. Additionally, all subtasks are working on publications.
The next Working Meeting is planned for 23-24 of September 2021.
Newsletter [March 2021]
Next Working Meeting
The Working Meeting of the Annex will be on 21–22 April 2021. Please find the tentative agenda of the meeting from the following Teams link.
Annex 83 PhD students network
In order to create connection between PhD students who are participating in the Annex for collaboration in their research and publications, a survey has been initiated. PhD students are kindly asked to fill out their data from this Teams link indicating their name, email address, affiliation, country, tentative thesis title or main research filed, brief description about the PhD research, and in which subtask they are participating. Please note that there will be a special session (PhD Talk) on the 2nd day of the next Annex Working Meeting (22 April 2021), where some students can present the progress of their PhD research and can discuss with other students.
Session in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings
Annex 83 is arranging a special session (IS13: Positive Energy Districts) in the International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB-21, 15-17 September 2021 http://seb-21.kesinternational.org/index.php. Two papers from each subtask of the Annex are planned in this session. Deadline for submission is 4th June.
Annex 83 publications
The first publication of the Annex has been published in Buildings Journal.
Title “IEA EBC Annex83 Positive Energy Districts”. Authors: Åsa Hedman, Hassam Ur Rehman, Andrea Gabaldón, Adriano Bisello, Vicky Albert-Seifried, Xingxing Zhang, Francesco Guarino, Steinar Grynning, Ursula Eicker, Hans-Martin Neumann, Pekka Tuominen and Francesco Reda. Buildings 2021, 11(3), 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11030130