Ancillary services to Smart Grid through multi-zone demand controlled ventilation systems in residential buildings

In this project, the aim is to explore market potentials for integrating Smart Grid functionality in residential Demand Controlled Ventilation and Heating (DCVH) systems. This will reduce technical and business uncertainty in providing ancillary services using the flexibility of such systems. The outcome of the project translates into two specific, matching business opportunities: (1) to develop a controller with smart grid functionality for a novel demand controlled ventilation and heating system and (2) to develop an aggregator system that can exploit such ventilation and heating systems in order to capitalize in current and future energy markets. The project involves a hierarchical control design intended to enable groups of residential buildings to make bids on the
flexibility market. The combined aggregator and DCVH control system will be demonstrated in a laboratory environment and an actual building.

The work plan is divided into four technical work packages and two administration and information sharing work packages:

WP1: Project management
WP2: Building-level control
WP3: Aggregator-level control
WP4: Integration and verification of the whole setup
WP5: Full size verification in a building
WP6: Information sharing and dissemination