Active buildings in smart grids—Exploring the views of the Swedish energy and buildings sectors

Bulut, Mehmet Börühan; Odlare, Monica; Stigson, Peter; Wallin, Fredrik; Vassileva, Iana

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.02.017

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“…In [30], [31] the relationship between buildings and energy sectors has been investigated based on a web survey and interviews in Sweden. Also, cooperation barriers of these two sectors have been identified and some suggestions to strengthen this cooperation has been presented.…”

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Active Building as an Energy System: Concept, Challenges, and Outlook

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Over the last decades, environmental concerns and the global tendency to reduce the use of fossil fuels and replacing them with renewable energy sources (RESs) to face the increasing rate of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have increased. Buildings consume a significant amount of energy and therefore, they are responsible for a noticeable part of the total GHG emission. Thus, when we talk about decarbonization of the energy systems, buildings are an important sector of the energy system that needs to be considered. Using RESs, smart technologies, and information and communication technologies along with the improvement in energy efficiency, are a number of endeavors to increase the role of building on the way toward decarbonization. In the new environment, the buildings are not passive players of the energy systems and they are able to take an active role and participate in the energy-efficient operation. While they are able to manage their resources and serve the local energy requirements of the residents in the best possible manner, they can participate in the energy and balancing markets and support the network operators as a service provider. In this paper, we present a comprehensive review of active buildings' concept, challenges and outlook to pave the way for the researchers from academia and industry who want to start working in this area.

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“…Existing studies on commercial firms and the public sector tend to focus on technical and regulatory aspects of DSR participation, such as the development of control systems to manage buildings' flexibility [65,66]; the flexibility potential of different appliances such as elevators and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) [17,67,68]; and, the way in which the regulatory framework constraints the provision of DSR [69][70][71]. Whilst this literature is useful to understand the fundamental barriers to the uptake of DSR in the sector, it tends to focus on barriers in buildings or individual sites, and thus overlooks that energy related decisions are often taken at the level of the firm and affected by factors pertaining to the firm rather than the sites.…”

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Making demand side response happen: A review of barriers in commercial and public organisations

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2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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The decarbonisation of electricity systems and the associated increase in variable generation sources requires an increase in power system flexibility. Demand side response (DSR) is widely viewed as a cost-effective source of flexibility, with considerable market potential. To date, the main DSR providers have been energy intensive firms. However, the expectation is that non-energy intensive consumers such as commercial firms and public sector organisations, will also help to provide system flexibility. Despite its DSR potential, the commercial and public sector has received little attention in the literature. This paper helps address this gap by identifying and exploring barriers to the participation of large commercial firms and public sector organisations in DSR through a review of the academic and grey literature on DSR. Drawing on the literature on barriers to energy efficiency, we use concepts from orthodox and behavioural economics, organisational studies and social practice theory to frame our analysis. The article argues that barriers to participation in DSR exist at the level of the organisation and not only the site. For large commercial firms and public sector organisations, the combination of having small individual electricity loads and complex internal decision-making processes can hinder their uptake of DSR. The hidden costs of participation, issues of bounded rationality and what the energy is used for within different organisations also limit the firms' ability to participate in DSR. literature is the 'energy-efficiency gap', which examines the reasons for organisations' underinvestment in apparently profitable EE initiatives [22][23][24].The literature on the EE gap can be useful to examine barriers to DSR participation for three reasons. First, studies on the EE gap tend to use a multi-disciplinary approach in their analysis, which can enable the identification of a more comprehensive set of barriers as the problems under examination are considered from different perspectives. For example, while some theories will focus on the barriers that originate at the level of the individual others will emphasise the role of organisational factors in restricting the uptake of EE projects. Second, from the perspective of firms and public sector organisations, there are several similarities between EE and DSR. Both DSR and EE are energy management innovations [21]. Both are relatively optional. The benefits of increased energy efficiency and more demand side flexibility in the system are generally agreed, and both measures are often advocated as being cost-effective for businesses. However, a gap remains between estimates of EE and DSR potentials and businesses' uptake of these initiatives. Within firms, both DSR and EE are the responsibility of energy departments but require support from other parties of the organisation and are both likely to be evaluated by the same criteria [15,21,25]. Third, the EE literature includes barriers that focus on the features of the organisation [26,27] rather than solely o...

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“…Specifically, the shift in thinking in building operations and management should be with respect to two main issues. First, it is no longer only sufficient to be energy efficient in operations but also important to dynamically synchronize operations between buildings (including occupants and installed systems) and power system domains to cooperatively gain optimal energy and comfort performance (Lund et al, 2015;Palensky, Dietrich, & Senior Member, 2011;Bulut et al, 2016). Second, participation of buildings in grid support activities might at some point conflict with dedicated primary role towards their occupants thus requiring innovative tradeoffs in control actions (Shaikh et al, 2014;Shaikh, Mohd Nor, Nallagownden, & Elamvazuthi, 2016).…”

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