TY - JOUR

T1 - Open access decision support for sustainable buildings and neighborhoods

T2 - The nano energy system simulator NESSI

AU - Eckhoff, Sarah

AU - Hart, Maria C.G.

AU - Brauner, Tim

AU - Kraschewski, Tobias

AU - Heumann, Maximilian

AU - Breitner, Michael H.

N1 - Funding Information: Funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture under grant number 11-76251-13-3/19 – ZN3488 within the Lower Saxony “Vorab” of the Volkswagen Foundation and supported by the Center for Digital Innovations (ZDIN) .

PY - 2023/6/1

Y1 - 2023/6/1

N2 - The urgency of climate change mitigation, rising energy prices and geopolitical crises make a quick and efficient energy transition in the building sector imperative. Building owners, housing associations, and local governments need support in the complex task to build sustainable energy systems. Motivated by the calls for more solution-oriented, practice-focused research regarding climate change and guided by design science research principles, we address this need and design, develop, and evaluate the web-based decision support system NESSI. NESSI is an open-access energy system simulator with an intuitive user flow to facilitate multi-energy planning for buildings and neighborhoods. It calculates the technical, environmental, and economic effects of 14 energy-producing, consuming, and storing components of the electric and thermal infrastructure, considers time-dependent effects, and accounts for geographic as well as sectoral circumstances. Its applicability is demonstrated with the case of a single-family home in Hannover, Germany, and evaluated through twelve expert interviews.

AB - The urgency of climate change mitigation, rising energy prices and geopolitical crises make a quick and efficient energy transition in the building sector imperative. Building owners, housing associations, and local governments need support in the complex task to build sustainable energy systems. Motivated by the calls for more solution-oriented, practice-focused research regarding climate change and guided by design science research principles, we address this need and design, develop, and evaluate the web-based decision support system NESSI. NESSI is an open-access energy system simulator with an intuitive user flow to facilitate multi-energy planning for buildings and neighborhoods. It calculates the technical, environmental, and economic effects of 14 energy-producing, consuming, and storing components of the electric and thermal infrastructure, considers time-dependent effects, and accounts for geographic as well as sectoral circumstances. Its applicability is demonstrated with the case of a single-family home in Hannover, Germany, and evaluated through twelve expert interviews.

KW - Decision support system

KW - Design science research

KW - Energy system simulation

KW - Open access web tool

KW - Renewable energy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152595288&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110296

DO - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2023.110296

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85152595288

VL - 237

JO - Building and environment

JF - Building and environment

SN - 0360-1323

M1 - 110296

ER -