Optimization-Tool for local renewable energy usage in the connected system: "Building-eMobility"

Abstract

Renewable energy production and decentralized energy storage as well as optimized usage of existing energy resources are matters of rapidly growing importance. Even today in building architecture as well as modern mobility concepts these technologies are major cost drivers. Staying abreast to these changes, EA EnergieArchi-tektur GmbH together with IAD TU Dresden are developing a simulation tool to identify and optimize the potentials for building specific energy storage and production as well as optimized usage strategies on the consumer side. Furthermore the simulation tool allows analyzing the smart integration of new eMobility concepts. In this it works as a test bench for system wide energy management with priority on charging strategies for such vehicles from the decentralized power supply. 1 Why a holistic energy simulation for car and building Today, there are various technologies available to provide local renewable energy, for example: micro-wind-turbines, photovoltaics, solar heat, heat pumps and combined heat and power units (CHP). These energy systems use direct natural energy resources like wind and sun or renewable fuels like wood, bio-gas or even vegetable oil. The availability and efficiency of these resources differ greatly depending on the specific location. Furthermore these energy systems are expensive in money and production resources. Therefore it is important to find an optimized configuration before installing an energy system in a specific building. A second thought on optimizing renewable energy includes the time of availability. There is no sunshine at night. Is it better to store the daylight energy using batteries, charge a heat storage or to install the photovoltaics facing westwards thus providing more energy when demand is high-in the evening? In the course of the increasing demand on electric mobility, the need for charging concepts has risen. Both power and energy have to be provided. Synchronization of the demand on energy and storage as well as on availability in a building is an important fact for future energy-management systems. Electric Mobility as mobile storage with constraints to availability (docked, undocked) and requirements from lifestyle (e.g. 100% charge in the morning) adds further complexity to the system. The energy system layout for a specific combination Building-eMobility as well as the research and development of optimized energy-management algorithms are two engineering tasks which demand for a