BAEDA Lab joins the Annex 96 community

About Annex 96

This Annex builds on the work of IEA EBC Annexes 67, 81 and 82.  It will provide building owners and energy market participants with a framework of concepts, procedures, tools and evidence - that can enable trustworthy, automated, cost-effective trading of flexibility resources from buildings; at scale. The Annex will consider the technologies available for delivering flexibility from heating and cooling systems in individual buildings – with a focus on supporting adoption of simple, repeatability scalable solutions. The focus of the proposed Annex is on unlocking flexibility from heating and cooling systems in both residential and commercial buildings.

The Annex will conduct research on a number of the identified EBC strategic topics, including:

• Design and utilisation of data platforms (for orchestrating clusters of flexible demand assets, and providing information to markets and industry decision makers).
• Use of smart controls to ensure robust provision of flexibility services, while simplifying participation in markets for building owners.
• Linking the operational performance of individual buildings to community systems and related infrastructure.
• Use of living labs to examine robustness, occupant comfort and satisfaction with flexibility products and services.
• Use of AI to (i) reduce the cost of deploying data management systems and (ii) improve the aggregate load profiles of fleets of flexible demand assets.   

The Annex objectives are to

• Advance the TRL/CRL of flexible load technologies available in buildings, 
• Develop the digital framework(s) for exposing flexible load resources to energy markets/schemes,
• Demonstrate the potential for automating flexibility aggregation and orchestration processes through modern digitalisation technologies,
• Assess the potential to use flexible loads to reduce emissions in building, by better matching demand with grid time-of-use emissions, and
• Drive adoption of Annex results through case studies, business model innovation and results dissemination.

For more details please visit the official web site of Annex 96