3Smart Smart Building – Smart Grid – Smart City
Current tendencies in the Danube Region to integration of energy-efficiency measures and renewable energy are not followed by their adequate interactions to enable optimal operation of the building as a whole. Distribution system operators are reluctant in allowing renewable energy in the grid as it engages investments into the grid and increases costs for its correct and secure operation.
Distribution system operators are interested in introducing coordinated energy exchange with buildings through dynamically changing conditions, e.g. via optimized hourly price profiles.. Currently neither of the countries in the Danube Region has regulatory/technology framework developed for inception of building-grid cross-spanning energy management schemes.
The main objective of the 3Smart project is to provide a technological and legislative setup for cross-spanning energy management of buildings, grids and major city infrastructures in the Danube Region. It will provide optimal economical value to energy-efficiency and renewable energy investment in the building and at the same time it will result in optimized costs on the grid side whereas grid and buildings will also interact through exchanging energy and prices data. This is expected to motivate installation of distributed storages in both buildings and grids for improving energy security in the Danube Region.
The project outputs are:
(i) Modular software tool for energy management on building and distribution grid side,
(ii) Five pilot actions in different Danube Region countries including buildings and grids with intersected technology/regulatory setups and
(iii) Strategy to enable city-wide energy management and related regulatory barriers removal in the Danube Region.
Main target groups are regulatory energy agencies/ministries (related to updating regulatory set-up), distribution system operators and suppliers (related to improving grid effectiveness), local authorities and regional energy agencies (related to reducing return-on-investment for investments in energy-efficiency and renewable energy); R&D institutions (related to possibly new modular extensions to the developed energy management, for specific configurations of buildings and grids).
Major innovative moment is in vertical two-way synchronization through all the modules of the energy management tool via simple interfaces to attain optimal operation of the buildings and the grid, and easy modules add-on to the existing already deployed automation equipment.
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 31-12-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 3791343,41
- ERDF Contribution: 2684885,78
- IPA Contribution: 537756,07
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Better connected and energy responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Improve energy security and energy efficiency
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| 3Smart_Output_T1.1_Strategy_to_influence_regulatory_framework | 16-11-2020 08:30:41 | |
| 3Smart_Ouptut_T1.2_Strategy_of_EMS_take-up_on_city_scale | 16-11-2020 08:30:11 | |
| 3Smart_Output_T2.1_Modular_cross-spanning_energy_management_tool | 16-11-2020 08:29:29 | |
| 3Smart_Output_T4.1_Transnational training activities_1_1 | 16-11-2020 08:26:36 | |
| 3Smart_Output_T4.1_Transnational training activities_1_2 | 16-11-2020 08:26:14 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing | Lead partner | mario.vasak@fer.hr | CROATIA |
| E 3, ENERGETIKA, EKOLOGIJA, EKONOMIJA, d.o.o. | ERDF partner | alan.krizaj@e3.si | SLOVENIA |
| Municipality Idrija | ERDF partner | miran.podobnik@idrija.si | SLOVENIA |
| Elektro Primorska d.d. | ERDF partner | jurij.jurse@elektro-primorska.si | SLOVENIA |
| European Centre for Renewable Energy Güssing Ltd. | ERDF partner | j.hacker@eee-info.net | AUSTRIA |
Project News
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3Smart - Follow-up research results based on the 3Smart project published in Applied Energy
- 22-11-2022
Researchers from UNIZGFER have published recently an article in Applied Energy scientific journal. The article is titled Predictive control based assessment of building demand flexibility in fixed time windows and it elaborates a follow-up...
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3Smart - MANAGEMENT OF SMART BUILDINGS IN THE DANUBE REGION
- 10-06-2022
Current tendencies in the Danube Region to integrate energy-efficiency measures and renewable energy are not followed by their adequate interactions to enable optimal operation of the building as a whole. Because of that, the 3SMART project aims...
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3Smart - 3Smart outputs
- 16-11-2020
The 3Smart project team is happy to inform you that all outputs are realized successfully and you can find them in the Library section. Due to file upload size limitations, we have divided some outputs into several smaller parts that should...
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3Smart - Public presentation event in Austria
- 02-01-2020
The 3Smart project team has held a public presentation of the Austrian pilot to the interested stakeholders from Austria on 20th of December 2019 in Strem. The developed 3Smart tool was presented, and then its application to the electricity...
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3Smart - Public presentation event in Slovenia
- 30-12-2019
The 3Smart project team has held a public presentation of the Slovenian pilot to the interested stakeholders from Slovenia on 14th of November 2019 in Idrija. The developed 3Smart tool was presented, and then its application to the electricity...
