This pilot will use HVAC systems in buildings to provide flexible demand and reduce operator costs while maintaining occupant comfort. The current buildings are:
- 83 Pirie Street Adelaide, a 22–level 6-star commercial building in the Adelaide CBD which has 50% more fresh air than the building code require which is provided by Seeley’s Climate Wizard indirect evaporative air conditioning system
- the State Basketball Centre, Adelaide Showground, Wayville, which is cooled by Seeley’s Climate Wizard
- the University of South Australia (UniSA) Mawson Lakes campus buildings, which are cooled by refrigerative cooling systems.
The pilot will:
- Monitor/collect data from the building HVAC systems
- Evaluate the energy efficiency and cost-benefit of various types of air conditioning systems to understand the actual onsite performance of the systems
- Calculate the magnitude of available flexible demand and potential effects of HVAC systems on both minimum and peak demand
- Evaluate how customer-based demand flexibility can reduce customer energy bills
- Evaluate how to facilitate and respond to the growth in adoption of solar PV generation
- Identify specific barriers to, and practical solutions for, flexible demand options for HVAC in buildings.
Researchers: UniSA
Additional pilots which could contribute more new knowledge would be welcome and these could include:
- Additional building archetypes/classes eg shopping centres, storage, factories, public buildings, hospitals ie Classes 5 – 10 in the National Construction Code
- Additional geographic locations with different climate zones and electricity network issues.
This pilot will investigate minimum flexible demand opportunities with AGL customers, which may include:
- a supermarket
- an airport
- a cold storage facility
This pilot will potentially:
- use AGLs expertise and significant background IP in the form of a demand forecasting algorithm
- cover the hardware and BMS/SCADA reprogramming costs
- help AGL better understand measurement and verification methodologies that can be used to demonstrate the benefits of flexing minimum demand for C&I customers
- Calculate the magnitude of available flexible demand and potential effects of control systems on both minimum and peak demand
- Evaluate how customer-based demand flexibility can reduce customer energy bills
- Identify specific barriers to, and practical solutions for, flexible demand options for AGL customers.
Additional pilots which could contribute more new knowledge would be welcome and these could include:
- Additional building archetypes/classes eg shopping centres, storage, factories, public buildings, hospitals ie Classes 5 – 10 in the National Construction Code
- Additional geographic locations with different climate zones and electricity network issues.
This pilot will investigate minimum flexible demand opportunities within Sydney Waters operations, which may include:
- Water and wastewater pumping
- EV charging
This pilot will potentially allow Sydney Water to:
- Calculate the magnitude of available flexible demand and potential effects of systems which Sydney Water controls on both minimum and peak demand
- Evaluate how demand flexibility can reduce Sydney Water energy bills
- Identify specific barriers to, and practical solutions for, flexible demand options for Sydney Waters operations.
Additional pilots which could contribute more new knowledge would be welcome and these could include:
- Additional sectors which use water pumping or other large scale liquid pumping
- Additional geographic locations with different site operations, climate zones and electricity network issues.
To add to the existing body of knowledge relating to flexible electricity demand in business, the project team have identified additional potential pilots that they would love to investigate, which include:
- Irrigation pumping, in agriculture, local councils etc.
- Cold chain including cold storage
- HVAC and refrigeration with small and medium sized businesses, including shopping malls
- Integration with energy storage, such as batteries, thermal storage etc.
- Other building types, such as public buildings, warehouses
- Additional building archetypes/classes eg shopping centres, storage, factories, public buildings, hospitals ie Classes 5 – 10 in the National Construction Code
- Additional geographic locations with different climate zones and electricity network issues
- Industry, including technologies such as electric boilers, automation, cogeneration/CHP flexing, load shedding, embedded generation in sectors such as food, beverage, pulp and paper, gas extraction, aluminium, building materials, plastics, aquatic centres.
For any enquiries, please contact Tracey Colley: tracey.colley@racefor2030.com.au