(Tiper Stock Exchange) – AENEAS has developed a innovative building, equipped with a photovoltaic system with storage, automated windows and dimming systems and advanced IoT systems for controlling energy flows, with benefits in terms of reducing exchanges with the electricity grid and bill costs. The experimental prototype of this smart building, capable of communicating with the electricity grid, is located at the ENEA Casaccia Research Center (Rome) and was created to offer integrated and flexible services to citizens in the context of “Research of the Electric System” program, funded by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security.
The smart building is also equipped with IoT devices which make it possible to acquire large quantities of data in real time which are reprocessed in order to define control strategies, remotely optimize the energy flows of the building-plant system and reduce energy consumption.
Thanks to the interaction with the accumulation systems, the The building’s energy needs are made flexible to adapt dynamically according to the availability of electricity produced by photovoltaics, the requests coming from the electricity grid, for example in the event of peaks or congestion, or the energy price signals provided by the market, generally one day in advance.
A first was developed at the same building proof of concept based on blockchain technology, then also replicated on IBSI (Italian Blockchain Services Infrastructure), an experimental project born from the collaboration of subjects from the public and private world with the aim of promoting the development of public utility services.
The solution envisages that, starting from the monitored energy data, an innovative approach is simulated capable of stimulating the members of an energy community to adopt virtuous behaviour, to encourage the self-consumption of renewable energy and the flexible management of buildings. The system works on the basis of reward/penalty dynamicsfocused on self-consumption and on the PUN (Single National Price), the wholesale price of electricity, and quantified through tokens, to be used to certify and enhance virtual energy transactions between members of the energy community.
“To decarbonise the energy system and achieve climate neutrality objectives, it is necessary to implement a progressive replacement of fossil fuels, making use of the contribution of the electric vector and renewable sources in an energy and economically efficient way – he underlines Claudia Meloni of ENEA’s Smart Energy Division –. In this context – he adds – the electricity vector lends itself, in particular, to the creation of flexible, adaptive, easily measurable, integrable services and consequently predisposed to a new model of interaction with the users of energy-intensive services”.