Horizon 2020 (2014 - 2020)

Upgrading smartness of existing buildings through innovations for legacy equipment

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Location:EU 27, Switzerland
EU 27, Switzerland
Contracting authority type:Development Institution
Status:Awarded
Budget: EUR 8,000,000
Award ceiling: EUR 4,000,000
Award floor: EUR 3,000,000
Sector:Energy, Information & Communication Technology, Science & Innovation
Eligible applicants:Unrestricted / Unspecified
Eligible citizenships:Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, A ...
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Date posted: Aug 6, 2019

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Call Updates

Jan 22, 2021 1:24:17 PM

Please note that the latest information on results (Flash Call Info) for topic LC-SC3-B4E-3-2020 that closed on 10 September 2020 can be found in the "Additional Documents" section of the relevant topics.

Sep 11, 2020 6:27:53 PM

On 10 September 2020, a total of 352 proposals were submitted in response to the following topics:
         
LC-SC3-B4E-3-2020 (IA): 63 proposals

Mar 5, 2020 12:31:27 AM

The submission session is now available for: LC-SC3-B4E-3-2020(IA)


Upgrading smartness of existing buildings through innovations for legacy equipment

ID: LC-SC3-B4E-3-2020

Focus area: Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future (LC)

Type of action: IA Innovation action

Deadline Model : single-stage

Planned opening date: 05 March 2020

Deadline: 10 September 2020 17:00:00 Brussels time 

Horizon 2020

Work programme: Secure, clean and efficient energy
Work programme year: H2020-2018-2020
Call name: BUILDING A LOW-CARBON, CLIMATE RESILIENT FUTURE: SECURE, CLEAN AND EFFICIENT ENERGY
Call ID: H2020-LC-SC3-2018-2019-2020

Specific Challenge:
An essential part of Europe's clean energy transition is the changing role of buildings from consuming energy to actively controlling and optimising indoor environment while contributing to energy system flexibility by ensuring distributed energy generation from renewable energy sources, energy storage, facilitate smart charging of EVs, smart metering, load reduction through energy efficiency and load shifting through demand response. Innovative technologies will enable smart buildings to interact with their occupants and the grid in real time and to manage themselves efficiently, so as to become an active element of the energy system. Intelligent and connected devices, smart sensors and controllers, supported by the development of new business models for new energy services, will create new opportunities for energy consumers.

Today, the existing building stock represents the main challenge for a more efficient energy use, in buildings as well as across the whole energy system. The smart readiness of buildings may evolve faster for devices and systems easily replaced and installed, than for other parts of the building's equipment such as HVAC and DHW systems due to higher costs of replacement, longer lifecycles and difficulties related to integration in buildings. This installed equipment remains highly relevant for buildings interactions with the energy system, making its upgrade to higher levels of smartness an essential step. The revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive introduces a Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) to reflect the level of services offered by a smart building. Once established, this indicator will give a framework to assess the smart readiness of buildings and building units to adapt operation to the needs of the occupant and the grid and to improve energy efficiency and overall performance.

Scope:
Proposals should develop and demonstrate cost-effective low-carbon technological solutions to manage energy within existing buildings and interact with the grid providing energy efficiency, flexibility, generation and storage, based on user preferences and requests. These solutions should be aimed to upgrade existing buildings, either residential or tertiary, using automation and IT to offer new services and control to the building users, thereby improving their comfort and increasing their satisfaction. This upgrade should translate into improvements in the areas put forward by the revised EPBD, in relation to the smart readiness indicator.

Proposals should demonstrate how the smart systems, smart controls, smart metering and smart appliances can be integrated seamlessly in existing buildings to interface and/or to control the major energy consuming domestic appliances that are already installed. These pilots should involve several types of domestic appliances and technical building systems with longer lifecycles (boilers, radiators, DHW preparation, motors for ventilation, windows opening and shading; lighting etc.) and with shorter lifecycles (dryers, washing machines, fridges, etc.), testing several types of control modes (ON/OFF, power modulation, etc.) possible for a given type of appliance. Recharging points for electric vehicles, vehicle-to-grid and other forms of energy storage should also be incorporated in the pilots. The proposed solutions should not adversely affect the original functionalities, product quality, lifetime, as well as warranties of the appliances.

Besides the pilot demonstrations, proposals are expected to include clear business model development and a clear path to finance and deployment. Key partners should have the capability and interest in making the developed solution a core part of their business/service model to their clients.

These business models and exploitation strategies should target the broad uptake of the proposed smart systems into specific building typologies in Europe and their integration with evolving electricity markets, e.g. dynamic pricing or other services and information offered by energy suppliers and/or aggregators. Integrations with other energy networks, e.g. DHC, or other services or IT solutions not related to energy can also be considered.

The solutions should focus on cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness: easy installation and maintenance, maximising consumer comfort (e.g. self-learning) and information on own consumption (e.g. recommendations to the user in order to maximise savings) as well as on gains from its contribution to grid operation.

These solutions should build on innovative technologies, initiatives and approaches contributing to building smartness: semantics, data models, data layers, protocols, software building blocks, APIs, middleware, solutions for smart services, standards, relevant industrial consortia or technology initiatives, etc. Interoperability is essential to ensure the required smart readiness, in particular integration with legacy equipment, user-friendliness and broad market uptake.

Projects are required to follow the H2020 guidance on ethics and data protection[1], taking into account digital security, privacy and data protection requirements including the compliance with relevant directives/regulations (e.g. NIS[2], eIDAS[3], GDPR[4]) and relevant National Legislation.

A realistic estimate should be provided on the total energy savings/year and on the impact of the innovations demonstrated in the project on the total power available for cost effective demand response actions. The projects should involve technology providers (e.g. manufacturers of appliances, movable envelope components, smart control/ home systems providers), energy services providers (aggregators and/or suppliers and/or ESCO's), user representatives, electricity system operators and other actors as relevant.

The activities are expected to be implemented at TRL 6-8 (please see part G of the General Annexes).

The Commission considers the proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between 3 to 4 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

This topic contributes to the roadmap of the Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) cPPP.

Expected Impact:Proposals are expected to demonstrate the impacts listed below using quantified indicators and targets wherever possible:

Primary Energy savings triggered by the project (in GWh/year);
Investments in sustainable energy triggered by the project (in million Euro);
Upgrade of existing buildings to higher smartness levels, including a significantly enlarged base of existing building equipment and appliances monitored by energy management systems and activated through demand response actions;
Reduction in energy consumption and costs, exceeding the additional consumption from IT and its cost.
Additional positive effects can be quantified and reported when relevant and wherever possible:

Reduction of the greenhouse gas emissions (in tCO2-eq/year) and/or air pollutants (in kg/year) triggered by the project.
Cross-cutting Priorities:Clean Energy
Contractual Public-Private Partnerships (cPPPs)
EeB

[1]http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/grants_manual/hi/ethics/h2020_hi_ethics-data-protection_en.pdf

[2]Directive (EU) 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 concerning measures for a high common level of security of network and information systems across the Union.

[3]Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC.

[4]Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation).
 

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