On-Grid Energy Plus Building Concept Integrated with Photovoltaic Solar Panels, Wind Turbine and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems

The role of integration concepts, performance monitoring and analysis methodologies and sophisticated control strategies through the seamless integration of people, ICT devices and computational resources gain significant importance for reducing the energy consumption and the operational costs. Design and deployment of different types of off-the-grid energy generation systems for buildings and integration of these systems with the ICT-based sub-systems becomes a necessity. The agenda in this research is built on the need of integration structures, holistic monitoring and analysis methodologies, life-cycle oriented management and decision support of both facilities and service teams with considering two key research areas; (1) Building energy supply-side (micro grid) management which addresses optimal integration and control of (PV) photo-voltaic solar panels, wind turbines, methanol based hydrogen fuel cell systems and (2) Building energy demand-side management which comprises a scalable, robust wireless sensing/actuation network platform for optimizing building energy demand. The research focuses on an innovative model-driven development approach that integrates systems in building supply-side and building demand-side to balance efficient energy production from off-the-grid systems and optimised consumption. The system integration is based on advanced control algorithms capable of learning from previous operations in real time. The research findings are demonstrated in a single family detached building in Hannover, Germany, integrating different energy efficient production/consumption systems addressing the renewable energy technologies coupled with energy storage systems and building energy management systems comprising scalable and robust sensing network platforms, energy performance monitoring and data warehouse technologies.