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A Call to Action for Building Energy System Modeling in the Age of Decarbonization
Time:
Wednesday, 22/May/2024:
11:30am - 12:30pm
Session Chair: Michael Wetter Session Chair: Kate Bren
Location:Denver 4
The Denver Suites are located on the second lower level of the Hilton Denver City Center at 1701 California Street, Denver, Colorado 80202.
Session Topics:
Efficiencies and Load Management, Grid Interactions and Distributed Energy Resources, Active, Passive, and Zero-carbon buildings, Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning, Commissioning, Diagnostics, and Control, Building Information Modeling and Interoperability, Performance-Driven Design, Design Automation, and Optimization, Life-Cycle Modeling, Urban and Community Scale Modeling, Education and Training
AIA CES approved for 1 LU.
Presentations
A Call to Action for Building Energy System Modeling in the Age of Decarbonization
Michael Wetter1, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli2, Johan Akesson3, Stephen Holicky4, Clas Jacobson3
1Berkeley Lab, USA; 2University of California at Berkeley, USA; 3Carrier, Sweden; 4Honeywell, USA
As urban energy systems become decarbonized and digitalized, buildings are increasingly interconnected with one another and with the industrial and transportation sector. Transformation strategies to cost-effectively integrate distributed energy sources, and to increase load flexibility and efficiency, generally increase complexity. This complexity causes challenges that the industry is unprepared to deal with. Today's simulation programs, and the processes in which they are used, have not been developed to meet the challenges of decarbonization. Nor have they been designed for, or do they keep pace with, the energy system digitalization. Modeling, simulation and optimization tools, and the processes in which they are used, need to undergo an innovation jump.
We showed in https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2023.2285824 a path to more holistic tools and workflows that address the new requirements brought forward by the increased complexity. We believe such concerted actions is needed to support rapid decarbonization, and propose that IBPSA takes action by forming an expert group.
This session introduces these emerging needs to IBPSA-USA, seeks feedback from the community, and discusses plans to address these needs.
