Position Paper: Towards a Quantification of the Demand-side Flexibility of Buildings

smartEn brought out this paper with the aim to set out its position on the need to quantify the Demand Side Flexibility of a building as a component of the local energy system’s carbon footprint. In this paper, smartEn outlines the benefits of a building energy performance quantification metric that incorporates DSF and recommends an ideal format of expressing the Actual Performance Metric.
smartEn believes that the quantification of a building’s energy performance is an important enabling step on the road to climate neutrality, and in supporting the Renovation Wave initiative.