The VERYSchool Project: Valuable EneRgY for a Smart School - Intelligent ISO 50001 Energy Management Decision Making in School Buildings

This paper describes an innovative energy management methodology to support intelligent decision-making that ensures both energy efficiency and savings. At the core is the EC VERYSchool project, a result-oriented and industry led and market driven project co-funded by the European Commission under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP-ICT-PSP 2011). VERYSchool demonstrated how an effective energy action management based on the ISO 50001 standard and the successfully integration of cutting-edge ICTs, such as smart meters, smart control functions for HVAC and lighting, energy simulation modeling, with the Enerit ISO 50001 software suite has realized a complete Energy Action Navigator system (a web based platform called VSNavigator). The result is a high degree of innovation with significant energy, environmental, socio and economic challenges and impacts, while contributing to the NearZero Energy Buildings concept. Along with school buildings, the high degree of repeatability of the VERYSchool methodology, extends to all building sectors and large energy infrastructures.