After 10 years of track record, the current Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) schemes across the EU face several challenges which have led to not fully accomplish their initial objectives: lack of accuracy, a gap between theoretical and real consumption patterns, absence of proper protocols for inclusion of smart and novel technologies, little convergence across EU schemes, lack of trust in the market and very little user awareness related to energy efficiency.

The objective of the ePANACEA project is to develop a holistic methodology for energy performance assessment and certification of buildings that can overcome the above mentioned challenges. The vision is ePANACEA becoming a relevant instrument in the European energy transition through the building sector.

ePANACEA comprises the creation of a prototype (the Smart Energy Performance Assessment Platform) making use of the most advanced techniques in dynamic and automated simulation modelling, big data analysis and machine learning, inverse modelling or the estimation of potential energy savings and economic viability check.  ePANACEA will demonstrate and validate reliability, accuracy, user-friendliness and cost-effectiveness of the methodology through 15 case studies in 5 European countries.

Start: 01.06.2020

Duration: 36 months

Funding programme: Horizon 2020

Webpage: www.epanacea.eu

Partner: National Renewable Centre of Spain CENER (Koordinator), Energy Economics Group from the Vienna University of Technology -(AT), Technical Research Centre of Finland (FI), Center for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving (GR), Efinovatic (ES), Instituto para la Diversificacion y Ahorro de la Energia (ES), Energy Agency of Styria (AT), Institute for Future Energy Systems (DE) and SYMPRAXIS Team (GR)