Swiss living challenge – Neighborhub

Project completed – Production of 10 kWp and lithium-ion storage of 10.8 kWh

The NeighborHub is a neighborhood house and is also a real stand-alone building demonstrator. It has low energy consumption thanks to a passive strategy and 10 kWp of solar panels installed on the facade on fixed and mobile elements. For their excellent integration into the architecture, it also has some Grätzel cells.

Philippe Couty and Antoine Maltey were involved in the team which worked on the optimization of the sizing and behavior of the energy storage system. The software infrastructure of SmarSys and SmarSOLAR has been deployed to establish a precise producible and to compare consumption charges with production periods in order to optimize the whole. The solar power generation forecasting system also operates in real time to detect an abnormal drop in generation and to control loads.

Related publications

Conference papers

“SmarSOLAR : PV production forecast used by the Swiss team, winner of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition 2017 Denver, Colorado”, Philippe Couty, Christophe Arn, 2019 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1343 012091

“Positive energy building with PV facade production and electrical storage designed by the Swiss team for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition 2017 Denver Colorado”, P. Couty , M.J. Lalou, P. Cuony, S. Cotture, V. Saade, Conf CISBAT 2017, Energy Procedia, vol. 122 (2017), pp. 919–924, article Arodes hes-so

Local newspapers

“La maison du future est Suisse”   https://www.bulletin.ch/fr/news-detail/avec-le-soleil-pour-seule-source-denergie.html, Efficience21_N26_Maison_solaire

“Avec le soleil comme seule source d’énergie” bulletin.ch, article Arodes hes-so

“Nuove strategie e innovazione tecnologica, Fotovoltaico e NZEB”, Giuseppe La Franca April 2018, ED 18 04 neighborhub

External links

https://www.smartlivinglab.ch/fr/infrastructures/neighborhub/