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Sim4Blocks Webinar

Testing innovative demand response systems
An introduction and discussion of energy flexibility initiatives at the
blocks-of-buildings-scale developed by the Sim4Blocks project

29 March 2019 – Watch Live and on demand. Register today!

With ambitious targets set by the EU to significantly reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases, workable strategies for flexible energy use are fast becoming essential. Sim4Blocks […]

Sunny Southern Europe will become increasingly connected to its Central and Northern European neighbours with the ongoing development of cross border interconnectors. This is one of the crucial factors behind Spain’s decision to include an additional 5 GW capacity from STE/CSP plants in its Integrated National Energy and Climate plan (NECP). Complete with inherent storage capabilities, STE can provide flexible, dispatchable power […]

Centrica hopes to tap domestic flexibility by targeting households with solar power, selling them battery storage and heat pumps and tying it all together through energy management systems.

According to latest government data, there are some 976,000 solar PV installations in Great Britain. By volume, the vast majority (93 per cent) are sub-4kW, suggesting around 900,000 households […]

Buildings need to become more energy efficient but also need to have greater energy flexibility to allow them to use more energy when it is cheap and clean. The NOVICE project has been examining how we can combine energy efficiency with demand response flexibility in non-domestic buildings by testing a new business model in which […]

It aims to increase customers’ renewable energy use and enable them to buy and sell electricity to neighbours

Residents in Brixton in London will soon be able to trade solar energy with one another as part of new a pilot programme.

Dubbed ‘CommUNITY’, it is being run by EDF Energy with Repowering London and UCL’s Energy Institute, which aims to increase […]

Sim4Blocks is producing a series of informative and fun factsheets to highlight some of the research and results in the project so far. A third factsheet has been published looking at the role of the aggregator.

The factsheet explains the significant role aggregators play in balancing the grid and providing customers with competitive tariffs that help […]

Scientists at the Austrian Institute of Technology have published two papers on recent research on end-user programming in smart homes, investigating the complexities and challenges facing form-filling and data-flow visual programming.

Sim4Blocks’ partner, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) has published two papers based on research collated on the project and from wider investigations, on the evaluations […]

Poster submissions and the call for participation are still open for the unique one-off workshop, Everyday Automation Experience, which is being led by a multitude of researchers and scientists in the field of automated systems in smart homes and the subsequent human reactions, to investigate the requirements and design criteria for non-expert users encountering ubiquitous […]

At the end of 2018, Jordi Cipriano, director of the Building Energy and Environment Group at CIMNE, attended a training course on almost zero energy consumption buildings (nZEB) hosted by the Catalan Energy Institute in Spain.

The introduction course on trends and business opportunities was the sixth session of six on nZEB. The construction of […]