Connecting District Energy and Power Systems for Future Singaporean New Towns (CONCEPT): Final Report

Abstract

Project CONCEPT (Connecting District Energy Systems in Future Singaporean New Towns) was undertaken as a joint project between the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) as well as TUMCREATE and has been successfully completed as of May 2019. The project has led to the development of a methodology for the integrated optimal planning of electric grids and operation of thermal building systems which has been implemented as a software framework and as such was included as an extension into the City Energy Analyst (CEA)1. Further, the project contributed to the development of a software framework for thermal building modelling, i.e., the Control-oriented Building Model (CoBMo)2. The work on the project has concluded with the submission of two journal papers (appendices C and D). The project outcomes have been discussed with the National Energy Transformation Office (NETO) of the Energy Market Authority (EMA) and were presented to the CREATE research community as part of the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Lunch Talk series (slides in appendix E).