FC+COGEN-SIM

IEA/ECBCS Annex 42 is an international research project focusing on the modelling of fuel cell and other cogeneration technologies in the building environment. Annex 42 operates under the auspices of the International Energy Agency's (http://www.iea.org) Energy Conservation in Community Systems (http://www.ecbcs.org/) program.

Objectives of Annex 42 include:

• the characterization of occupant-driven electrical and domestic hot water usage patterns,
• the development and validation models of fuel cell and cogeneration technologies,
• the integration of these models into existing, publicly-available whole-building simulation programs, and
• the technical, environmental and economic assessment of selected cogeneration applications using the models developed within the annex.

At present, Annex 42 is comprised of 19 organizations from 10 countries:

• Belgium:
  • COGEN Europe
  • University of Liège
• Canada:
  • National Research Council
  • Natural Resources Canada
  • University of Victoria
• Finland:
  • VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland
• Germany:
  • Forschungsstelle für Energiewirtschaf, the Research Institute for Energy Economy
• Italy:
  • ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment
• The Netherlands:
  • ECN, the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
• Norway:
  • Byggforsk, the Norwegian Building Research Institute
• Switzerland:
  • EMPA, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research
  • EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of technology
  • Siemens Building Technologies
  • Sulzer Hexis
• The United Kingdom:
  • Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU)
  • the Welsh School of Architecture
• The United States:
  • Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Penn State University
  • Texas A&M University
  • The University of California, Irvine