The project aims to enable an efficient and cost effective use of existing grid infrastructures based on a three-step concept: intelligent planning, on-line monitoring, active grid management. Communication-based systems for automatic control concepts for low voltage networks will be developed and evaluated by putting them into practice.

This study investigates the way in which information about potential energy savings is best presented to the consumer in order to reduce energy consumption in the smart-grid. C2G aims at conducting basic research regarding if, how, when and what kind of energy feedback occupants need regarding a socio-demographic and cultural background. Various established and new forms of communication, combined with smart metering allow for investigating the impact, the sustainability and the handling of smart-grid enabled consumers.

The goal of the project is to close that gap and to investigate in a series of experiments where the limits of intelligent buildings in a Smart Grid are. For this a number of generic load models for buildings must be developed and embedded into an interoperable communication infrastructure. Particular insight is expected by putting building control and grid control into relation, currently these two systems are optimized separately. The investigated objects will be medium and large size residential and commercial buildings, the test cases will be conducted semi-automatically.