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DoF - District of Future KEYWORDS: renewables, energy efficiency, modelling, energy monitoring, energy optimization, consumption, energy prosumers, zero bill homes, solar energy, biomass plant, consortium, Zero Carbon. ABSTRACT

DoF (Figure 1) is a project funded by the European Commission through the FP7 programme. It proposes the creation and validation of an open environment to facilitate the optimization of energy management, defining the necessary framework to enable the integration of the entire set of elements involved at various levels in the context of a neighbourhood, and sharpening its focus primarily on energy consumption and efficiency.

One of the challenges of the project is to integrate the management of various sources of energy generation and consumption. For this purpose, advanced ICT solutions to integrate and model the monitoring and control will be used as well as explore the energy efficiency of buildings and city infrastructure using renewable energy and HVAC systems (Figure 2).

The most ambitious objective is to achieve an improvement in energy efficiency around 30-40%. Furthermore, it is expected to be able to impel more dynamism to the ecosystem, attracting the interest of potential new customers of these solutions (Figure 3).

The working group consists of 11 partners working together, from different countries from both public and private sectors. The demonstrators of the results of the project are the cities of Corby, Orleans and Sabadell (Figure 4).

Corby (Figure 5), Northamptonshire is in the centre of the UK and in the fastest growing part of the UK outside London. Its population of over 61,000 will double to over 100,000 by 2030. It will be monitored energy-consumption and generation at a district level with a specific focus on new energy efficient homes, schools and industrial premises:

8 Zero Energy Bill Homes (ZEB)

2 standard control homes without the ZEB energy efficiency features to provide a baseline for monitoring

2 types of ZEB homes to test their ability to achieve a “zero cost energy bill”. 4 homes have traditional gas boilers and 4 are all electric. They both have:

1. Water to water air source 2. Solar PV and PVT panels 3. Home energy automation control 4. Building fabric upgrades

Business Building – 7,800 m2 warehouse with roof solar PV

2 Schools, one with biomass boiler heating and both with solar PV

Corby Football Club solar PV

The city of Orleans (Figure 6) is located in the region Centre. Orleans is a regional capital, in the centre of the Agglomeration Orleans Val de Loire with an urban area including more than 400,000 people.

Orleans use case focuses on full energy-consumption monitoring at a district level, including social housing and municipal buildings. The project will focus on 3 sources of energy generation as:

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25 MW full service cogeneration biomass plant

Public school, with 200 m² solar PV

Public library, with 2 heat pumps (heating and cooling)

And 3 sources of energy consumption:

A 35 years old building renovated in 2012 day nursery, connected to the biomass plant

Public Library. It will also be monitored as a source of energy production

Social housing: 1500 housing have been renewed. 1 of them, located in a building connected to the heating network. In the same district a passive house will also be studied. Its expected energy consumption is 15 kWh/m²/year (HVAC)

Sabadell is a City located in Catalonia (Spain) of 207.773 inhabitants, co-capital of the Vallès Occidental Region.

Sabadell (Figure 7) use case will tackle three facilities, where energy consumption and production will be monitored. Also the existing historical data will be available to allow a better modelling and project results. The pilot includes a social housing building were 31 dwellings will be monitored and whose building is supported with geothermal system and two municipal facilities: “Can Marcet”, an offices building which also headquarters the Local Police and the Pneumatic Waste Collection Central of “Can Llong”. “Can Marcet” includes different sources of energy such as geothermal and in “Can Llong” different photovoltaic plaques can be found in the façade. The three buildings combined will show different renewable energy sources and different consumption intensities and uses.

Figure 1. DoF - District of Future logo

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Figure 2. DoF Ecosystem - One city scheme

Figure 3. DoF Objectives - Using Innovative ICT technologies, giving guidelines and support on the making

decision process and raising public awareness we are optimizing the energy systems and improving its efficiency. Our main objective is to achieve 30 – 40% energy reduction and CO2

emissions and improving the life

quality of citizenship.

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Figure 4. DoF Partners - DoF is a Consortium of 11 partners from diferent public and private sectors. 4 LE's, 3

SME's, 1 RC and 3 cities

Figure 5. Corby – Is building 8 ZEB Homes

Figure 6. Orleans – Is providing renewable energy from a biomass plant to a whole district

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Figure 7. Sabadell – 31 supported with geothermal system dwellings will be monitored