Imagine your home's heating and cooling acting like a smart battery that knows exactly when electricity is cheapest and cleanest to use. Instead of just turning on and off, these systems talk to the power grid and local solar panels to save money and energy. It's like giving an old building a brain and a high-efficiency heart to stop wasting heat.
Building electrification is often too expensive and complex because every building is unique. This makes it hard to scale heat pump deployment and integrate renewable energy without destabilizing the power grid.
A set of modular heat pump configurations, an IoT control platform for energy flexibility, and a decision-support tool for building renovation.
If you are a heat pump producer dealing with low adoption due to high installation costs — this project developed modular and replicable design methodologies that make systems easier to deploy across different climate zones. This allows for faster roll-out and lower custom engineering costs per building.
If you are an ESCO dealing with unstable energy prices and grid constraints — this project developed an IoT platform for energy flexibility. This enables you to offer demand response services to grid operators while reducing the building's carbon footprint.
If you are a property manager dealing with expensive energy bills in older buildings — this project developed integrated renovation and smartification tools. These tools help you size heating systems correctly to ensure maximum energy efficiency and lower life cycle costs.
The project focuses on cost-effective, replicable solutions using modular configurations and scalable design methodologies to avoid expensive custom engineering for every building.
The project aims for TRL 6-8 and includes 6 pilot sites, including 1 replication site, to prove the solutions work in real-world European construction markets.
Based on available project data, the project is developing exploitation and replication plans to remove barriers for mass roll-out, though specific licensing terms are not listed.
It uses an IoT platform to deploy energy flexibility, allowing buildings to adjust their thermal demand to help stabilize the power grid and increase the use of local renewable energy.
The project runs from 2024-01-01 to 2027-12-31, with real-life demonstrations occurring across 6 pilot sites during this period.
The consortium is heavily industry-driven with a 62% industry ratio, comprising 16 industrial partners, including 10 SMEs. This strong commercial presence, combined with 4 universities and 4 research organizations across 8 countries, suggests the project is focused on market viability and practical deployment rather than pure academic research.
Contact Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) regarding the SEEDS project coordination.
Contact us to connect with the 16 industrial partners specializing in smart HVAC and energy flexibility.
