1. Efficacity
R&D institute for urban energy transition
May 2017

2. 7 Engineering companies 15 Public research organisations
Introduction
One of the 9 Institutes for Energetic Transition created in 2014 by the French General Investment Commission (CGI)
A Public/Private partnership (49% public - 51% private)
13 private partners and 15 public universities and research institutes
6 Industrial companies
7 Engineering companies
15 Public research organisations
Our members

3. An innovative approach
From Housing scale to Distric and City level
A systemic approach
Energetic vectors (heat, cool, electricity, gas), local energetic sources (renewable, reuse), and technologies (production, storage, control)
End-use housing energy, embodied energy, mobility linked energy
Behavior awareness
Real energetic consumption assessment
Means of locomotion assessment
Develop scientifically robust decision helping tools, accessible to in the field’s actors

4. A multidisciplinary team
130 researchers from engineering field to human, social and economic sciences
Covering the whole complexity of an urban system
Behaviors, uses and society
Energy Simulation & optimization
Data Science
Urban design & planning
Economy, contracts & governance
Mobility
Environment & Life Cycle Analysis

5. Prospective R&D TurnKey Innovation Efficacity as a service
An operational research center
Prospective
R&D
Influence & secure new markets
(creation of « demonstrators »,
TurnKey
Innovation
Efficacity as a service
Accelerate Innovation
Develop new assets and bring them to the market
(software tools, methodologies, knowledge base…)
Provide access to Efficacity R&D ecosystem and R&D assets
(Advising, Expertise, Training Services for City actors)

6. Positive energy district Urban assessment Internet of Things
Our fields of expertise
Positive energy district
New solutions for local multi-energy systems
New solutions for neighborhoods design and requalification
Urban assessment
Enhanced multicriteria analysis of urban projects
Internet of
Things
Urban sensors, Urban data for sustainability

7. Knowledge communities
Our method for « research-action »
Prototypes
Field experiment
New Concepts
Asset
to market
R&D Platforms
Methods
Tools
Data
Knowledge communities
Behaviors, uses and society
Energy Simulation & optimization
Data Science
Urban design & planning
Economy, contracts & governance
Mobility
Environment & Life Cycle Analysis

8. How we do it : open IT architecture
Urban Numeric Model
Energy systems models
Diagnostic tools
Impact assessment tool
Cloud
Urban data model
Territorial data and energy offer/demand profiles
Efficacity simulation tools
(POWERDIS, etc.)
External tools
(Trafic simulation tools, etc.)
Life cycle Impact models

9. Powerdis : Dynamic multi-energy simulation software
How we do it : example of Powerdis
Field experiment :
Real scale test on an urban development project in Est Ensemble agglomeration
Prototype :
Powerdis : Dynamic multi-energy simulation software
Concept :
Promote local multi-energy smartnetworks through enhanced dynamic simulation

10. + How we do it : example of Powerdis Asset to market
Build a new offer out of Efficacity assets
Urban Energy +
Expose new services in IBM lines of products to IBM customers
*Fees to Efficacity
Develop or enhance existing IBM assets
Using IOeT usecases and shared knkow-how to develop new IBM assets.
Use pilote project as major showcases of IBM services for energy and urban utilities
Urban IOT
* No extra fees
Direct utilisation of Efficacity Assets
Using Powerdis to provide expertise
* No extra fees

11. A new R&D program for Efficacity in 2017
Focus : Internet of Energy Things
A new R&D program for Efficacity in 2017

12. Focus : Internet of Energy Things
Urban Energy IOT Lab & International Showcase
Enhanced systems performance analysis :
Sensors + Global City Information Model (BIM) + Efficacity simulations tools
Stakeholders -
Public Planning autority
Operators
citizens
Investors
Researchers
Industrials
Cloud
Urban Data Platform
Usecases -
Urban planning & design
Enrgy systems design, operation & maintenance
Influence on regulations
New contracting models
New business models
New Collaboration tools and services to the citizen
IoT
Living lab

13. Focus : Internet of Energy Things
> 40 existing valuable assets identified and secured to be integrated in IOeT project
Internet Of Energy Things
Energy planning
Society
& Citizens
Urban IoT Dynamic Supervisor
IOT chain architecture
Public space Microgrid