Prof Liz Varga
University College London (UCL), UKSustainability of building energy via digital intervention in distributed systems
Abstract:
Digital technologies are unlocking new data streams for renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) creating the potential to provide not only capacity or wholesale products, but also new flexibility and demand side response services. Due to the small scale of individual buildings, aggregation is needed whereby a digital system can mediate the availability, and rewards, for acting together in the energy market. Such opportunities are especially important in constrained areas of the distribution network. This work examines the considerations of such an integrated solution and presents results from a simulated network based on real DER data.
Biography:
LIZ VARGA is Professor of Complex Systems at University College London (UCL), London, U.K. and section head for Infrastructure and Cities in the Civil, Environmental, and Geomatics Engineering Department. She leads the Infrastructure Systems Institute, UCL, which is spearheading innovative research, including automation and digital twins, into infrastructure resilience, sustainability, and effectiveness using complexity appropriate methods for evaluation and assessment, particularly agent based modeling. She has published more than 60 journal articles on infrastructure systems: energy, transport, water, waste, and telecommunications. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
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