Demand response on blocks of buildings — Romanian pilot site innovation project

Even though the concept of Demand Response (DR) is not really widespread across Romania yet, the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN) is currently implementing a pilot project in its own buildings within the Horizon 2020 Project named DR-BoB (project no. 696114/2016). The main purpose of this pilot project is to develop an energy monitoring and targeting system, along with a DR program in load curve control. The system will include several hardware components that, together with a software interface, will be able to test the load curve control effectiveness at the pilot site. This paper emphasises the preliminary assessments that were necessary to be made prior to project implementation, the hypothesis used in the DR algorithm, the estimated results and also some important facts and figures regarding DR at European and Global level.