During the project, DR-BOB delivered 25 reports and achieved 12 milestones. The integration between the existing technologies: DEMS® (Siemens), Local Energy Manager (Teesside University), Consumer Portal (EcoTroks™ by Grid Pocket) was implemented at 4 pilot sites (in Romania, Italy, France and UK). The demonstration buildings allowed control and monitoring of their performance during the demand response (DR) events over a 12 month long demonstration period. The buildings covered 169,276 m2 of gross internal area and involved 28,295 occupants (conservative estimate), implementing between 3 and 5 DR scenarios per site. The scenarios were based on existing DR schemes and opportunities in the 4 countries hosting the project pilots. Evaluation of the achieved results revealed up to 23% reduction in electricity and energy demand and up to 37.5% reduction in the difference between peak and minimum night time demand. Four DR-BoB technology readiness levels (DRTRLs) have been defined to participate in the DR energy management solution at any given site. Furthermore, the DR-BOB solution is not limited to DR, but enables additional revenue channels such as predictive building management and data-driven energy saving. Two business models targeting aggregators and blocks-of-building owners were developed. The cost-benefit analysis showed a positive business case for buildings that meet the minimum technical requirements for supporting the DR-BOB solution. When only automated DR events are used, ROIs between 120% and 400% can be achieved over a 10-year project duration, i.e. the calculated payback time amounted to 2-5 years of operation. The project engaged with over 1900 companies as a result of more than 100 dissemination actions. It had an active website including its public deliverables, and periodically updated news and events sections. Project dissemination activities resulted in 13 conference, 7 journal and 1 book publications. The project was additionally presented at several high profile events, e.g. BULD-UP webinar, IEA workshop on the Role of Energy Efficiency in Europe’s Flexibility Agenda, European Utility Week, EPBD-CA workshop on Smart buildings for a greener Europe: Emerging Policy and Practice, Exploratory Workshop on Smart Metering-based Innovation and the Measurement of Building Performance, by the UK Government, and 2016 Energy Efficiency Information Day, by European Commission.
