Madrid

frESCO aims at testing and demonstrating the performance of the innovative energy services packages and business models and the overall ICT solution through a demonstration campaign in real environment in four representative pilot sites.

Madrid – Spain

The Spanish pilot is located in the city of Madrid. In particular, the apartments involved will be members of the energy cooperative La Corriente, partner of frESCO.

The buildings are located in the centre of the city and were built in the 60s. Of the 26 million homes in Spain, 15 were built before 1980 with very poor insulation. This directly affects the precariousness of energy and increased pollution.

The climate in the city is Mediterranean-Continental, with very hot summers and cold winters.

Location

Energy Profile

Installed Equipment

The apartments heating system is based on gas boilers (decentral heating), whereas heat pumps are also installed individually for cooling in summer.

Activities conducted in the pilot

The main goals of the project in Madrid’s pilot are to maximize PV production, reduce consumption and test the flexibility of energy demand, coupled with the rehabilitation of the building envelope, is a great challenge that will show costs, savings and potential of the frESCO tools.

More specifically, the interest is focused in exploring an integrated service package including the installation of collectively owned PV panels (in the building rooftop) and batteries – taking advantage of recent Spanish legislation that finally opened the possibility of shared owned distributed energy assets – with automation and non-energy services.

Flexibility through demand response, although not yet possible in Spain, will be studied through simulation.