Energy flexibility harvesting from data analytics – integration of building energy resources into energy markets

Abstract

The study seeks to explore how building automation resources could integrate into energy markets and also to give insights into how flexibility resources could be harvested from large building complexes. This study describes four data-driven building automation use cases for the campus building in the Nordic climate environment. The focus is on the use case defining the integration of the building automation resources into energy markets. In addition to the first use case, the paper also describes three other use cases as follows: first, the data platform enabling easy access to data, second, the integration of real-time data analysis on the data platform, and third, the data platform providing real-time carbon emission balance reading for public. As the main result, the paper seeks to define the use case describing the integration of building automation resources into energy markets in detail to enable implementation in later phases of the project. In addition, the paper gives insights on how flexibility resources could be harvested from large building complexes and what are the requirements for such a resource to enter flexibility markets.