Developing Energy Communities with Intelligent and Sustainable Technologies

IHS joins forces with the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (ESSB) and the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (TU Delft) as one of the key partners in the energy transition project DE-CIST (Developing Energy Communities with Intelligent and Sustainable Technologies). The project's primary focus is to develop an innovative algorithm capable of mapping the energy efficiency of each building in Rotterdam. 

About the project

IHS is one of the three project partners in the energy transition project DE-CIST (Developing Energy Communities with Intelligent and Sustainable Technologies). DE-CIST focuses on developing an algorithm to map the energy efficiency of each building in the city of Rotterdam. With this identification, it will become possible to establish which energy sustainability measures work best for which building. This will enable users to prioritise measures and allow the community to determine which areas or neighbourhoods to focus on. DE-CIST also wants to link this to community participation, creating economies of scale and enabling citizens to actively participate, together with other societal partners, in energy sustainability efforts.

The role of IHS

During the coming 24 months, an IHS team led by Alexander Los will work together with scientists from ESSB (Erasmus University) and the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment (University of Technology, Delft) in this multidisciplinary research project funded by a consortium composed of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and Google.org. The IHS team will also work in a multidisciplinary. Among others, it will assess GHG emission reduction and air quality improvement of building operations under optimized energy performance, tackle energy poverty, and how the proposed measures can diminish or prevent it.