Individual Heat Metering in Smart Buildings for Improving Energy Efficiency in the Residential Sector
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "G: Energy and Buildings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 14435
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermal and mechanical measurements; legal metrology; flow measurements; building energy performance; energy metering and accounting; environmental pollution measurements; transmission and distribution energy networks
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Interests: HVAC systems analysis, optimization and control; energy efficiency in buildings; radiant heating/cooling; heat cost allocation in buildings; renewable energy use/integration in buildings
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Individual metering is considered an effective tool to improve savings of energy consumption worldwide in the civil sector. As a matter of fact, in 2012, the EU Energy Efficiency Directive set the obligation for buildings supplied by central heating sources, or by district heating/cooling networks, to install individual metering systems for sharing cost of space heating/cooling and domestic hot water. As a consequence, EU Member States adopted different approaches mainly due to differences in building stocks and climatic conditions concerning, for example, the necessary cost–benefit analysis, the allocation rules, and the compensation factors.
Furthermore, the 2018 revision of the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) aims at further promoting smart building technologies, and a Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) for buildings has been established and for which individual metering is a key factor for the heating, cooling, and hot water domains. On the other hand, some technical issues are still present and prevent the spread of individual metering systems, such as the availability of metering systems for cooling applications and reliable methods to effectively account for domestic hot water consumptions.
This Special Issue invites scholars to contribute original research and review articles on individual heat metering applications in smart buildings which can enhance energy efficiency and the related limits/opportunities as well as the spread of building automation systems and IoT platforms to improve user awareness and interaction.
Manuscripts related to the below specific topics are also warmly welcome in this Special Issue:
1) New, universal, accurate, widely accepted, and easy to use methods of heat cost allocation;
2) Field tests and/or simulations of HVAC systems and their components used by individual heat metering;
3) Long-term field tests of new proven practice in individual heat metering in existing residential buildings.
Prof. Giorgio Ficco
Prof. Tomasz Cholewa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Individual metering
- Heat metering
- Cooling metering
- Heat allocation
- Heat cost allocator
- Energy savings
- Energy efficiency
- Space heating and cooling
- Domestic hot water
- User awareness
- Smart readiness indicator
- Building automation and control systems
- Multifamily buildings
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