Simulation and control of renewable energy technology integrated within building energy management

This paper presents the objectives and current activities in the course of an FP7 project, entitled EnergyWarden (www.energywarden.net). The project broadly aims at an integrated view of energy management and renewable technology, as deployed in the building domain. EnergyWarden will deliver an integrated toolset including three distinct modules: A Simulator (EW-S), to run long and short time simulations of the renewable energy production at the hourly, daily and yearly level, a controller (EW-C) to control energy flows locally at the building or at a district level and a user information module (EW-U) to deliver a detailed profile of the building energy production and use, to provide a real time calculation of CO₂ savings and to assess energy module performance, based on real time data and according to existing standards.