• Energy Research

Regional and local decision-makers still require relevant information and training in order to establish long-term strategies and to contribute to national and supranational energy and climate targets. As an example, a widespread participation of local authorities to comply with the Italian long-term building renovation strategy has not occurred so far. Thus, the overall target, annual 1% floor area of new or deeply renovated buildings to the nearly zero-energy building (nZEB) standard by 2020 (PanZEB 2015), proves to have been disregarded to date. Evidence-based, data-enabled assessment of the building stock and of its relationship with the energy system as a whole at a capillary level is crucial to this extent. In Italy, various building databases are already being used with the ultimate purpose of EPBD implementation and to track and record incentives for public and private building renovation. These datasets have an untapped potential for local energy planning that could be released from wider integration, also including energy consumption data and smart-metering data. Moreover, the regulatory landscape is changing toward an interaction of the building with the user, the energy grid and other buildings in a dynamic and functional way. Within this context, the paper will investigate how integrated data could unlock the value of a more evidence-based planning starting from the DIPENDE integrated dataset, a REQUEST2ACTION (IEE 2014–2017) pilot project combining data from energy performance certificates (EPCs) with bottom-up information on building renovation, and other data in order to support decision making at different territorial scales.

DIPENDE è un sistema di supporto alle decisioni che permette di conoscere e visualizzare facilmente dati relativi al patrimonio edilizio residenziale. DIPENDE può essere utile a: - Amministrazioni (pianificatori) regionali e locali - Imprese e organizzazioni commerciali - Distributori di energia, investitori e fornitori di servizi - Associazioni e organizzazioni no-profit ai fini di ricerca/studi Come usare DIPENDE Si possono visualizzare i dati e gli indicatori rappresentativi di DIPENDE tramite due modalità di accesso: GIS DIPENDE (Analisi standard e web-GIS) Mapping tool (In costruzione). Excel DIPENDE_Tabelle/Queries per analisi mirate (informazioni su questo applicativo su richiesta) L’integrazione di diversi tipi di dati (sociali, geografici, energetici, di mercato), aggregati a livello comunale, consente elaborazioni e analisi nuove rispetto agli usi abituali del catasto dei certificati APE: la rappresentatività degli edifici certificati, il miglioramento dell’EE attraverso gli interventi incentivati, il rapporto tra tipologia, età e prestazione energetica media del patrimonio, etc. DIPENDE può facilitare l’individuazione delle aree con priorità di intervento e la definizione di politiche e programmi di miglioramento dell’efficienza energetica sul proprio territorio. DIPENDE- Integrated DataBase for the Energy Planning of Building Districts, is a prototype tool to facilitate the analysis and visualization of the energy performance of the building stock: for public authorities, to enhance control, monitoring, planning and, for private actors, to establish marketing and business strategies. The database was developed usng data from Lombardy region EPCs (CENED energy performance certification database), National Statistics and gouvernment incentives for building renovation. Data dates back to 2012.