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The CONCERTO monitoring database as a tool for benchmarking among sustainable communities and their energy performance assessment

Panel: Panel 3. Monitoring & evaluation: understanding change and how to deliver energy efficiency

Author:
Olivier Pol, Arsenal research, Sustainable Building Technologies, Austria

Abstract

The European CONCERTO initiative aims at supporting communities for the implementation of combined actions towards energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources. Currently 45 European communities are involved in the programme and the 26 communities which were the first ones to start implementing these actions in 2005 are being analysed in detail. To support the impact assessment of the CONCERTO initiative and the implemented local energy strategies, a monitoring database has been developed and is being used by all involved communities.

The CONCERTO monitoring database has been designed to be as flexible as possible and suitable for different types of communities: it is used for new urban development areas, urban regeneration projects and rural areas. To allow for an assessment of the overall community energy performance, the database consists of two main parts: the “consumption” part gathers all data related to energy use (mainly buildings) and the “generation” part focuses on the description of the energy supply infrastructure (district energy systems and distributed energy plants).

Both expected and metered energy performance data is stored into the database, allowing for a comparison between expected and actual community energy performance (ex-ante and ex-post evaluation). At the time being only the ex-ante evaluation is possible, since the demonstration projects are currently being implemented and the first monitoring data available still need to be analysed and verified before being officially published. However, the paper presents the first findings on energy efficiency aspects in buildings. The focus is put on the evaluation of the energy savings in the building renovation activities and the energy performance of new eco-buildings. A first benchmarking among the different climate zones and building types is presented.

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