Future intelligent systems for energy-efficiency in public buildings- EnRIMa an EU funded project

The project involves scientists and of experts in a wide range of fields, including engineering, renewable energy sources, building construction, electro technology, modeling complex systems, and model-based decision-support, who join forces to develop a new advanced DSS, which will enable operators to improve energy efficiency in public buildings in a most cost-effective way, based on their tolerances for comfort and risk. This will be achieved by providing integrated management of conflicting goals such as cost minimization, energy efficiency, and emission-reduction requirements as well as risk management. The resulting DSS will be customized for the target stakeholders to enable its commercialization, thereby leading to great improvements in European competitiveness in the form of greater energy efficiency opportunities for European companies to market the ICT product worldwide.

The EnRiMa consortium is composed of ten institutions from seven European countries. The Department of Computer and Systems Science of the University of Stockholm leads the team that includes the Department of Statistical Science at the College University London; the Integrated Modeling Project of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Center for Energy and Innovative Technologies, both in Austria; the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Rey Juan Carlos University in Spain; the Technology and Society division of SINTEF from Norway, a research organization in the fields of ICT, energy engineering and building; LABEIN Tecnalia, a private research and innovation centre; Hidrocantábrico Energía, an electricity output company, both set in Spain; and Minerva Consulting and Communication, to support the communication side of the project. The project was launched on the 1st of October 2010 and will run until April 2014.