Urban energy flow microsimulation in a heating dominated continental climate

Abstract—A new energy management platform has been developed and tested on a 600 building urban zone of the Swiss city of la Chaux-de-Fonds. This simulation framework for energy-efficient systems simulates the buildings ’ energy demand, infers the production of the energy systems connected and simulate the complete supply and demand side energy flow picture. The platform is designed to use measured consumption data if available, and intended to produce correct estimates of the average energy demands of housing and administrative buildings if not available. This article discusses the first results obtained for the buildings ’ heating demands and their comparison with measured values. Two examples of energy efficiency scenarios are also presented. They show that the energy savings associated with building insulation can reach more than 12 % of the total energy consumption in buildings in the zone studied. Keywords- energy flow simulation; simulation and measure-ment comparison; urban simulation; heating demand simulation; energy demand and supply. I