Pilot Liège
A big scale digital twin with a cause: monitoring a whole campus
How much does an university consume in terms of energy? And what would it take to make it self-sustainable through energy trading? This is the question the developers at ULiège will discuss at the Blockchain4Prosumers’ pilot in Liège, in the spring of 2023.
The technology the team is working on involves the making of a digital twin of the campus. Some specific points of the campus have been chosen to create a relevant network of hotspots from which consumption of electricity is monitored.
The monitoring of the “expenses” of these spots allows the researchers to make a forecast of how much energy it would be necessary to feed the energetic needs, trading own produced energy from, for example, a PV system on one of the buildings.

Thanks to tests on simplified cases, it will be possible to make a simulation of a self-sufficient campus, running on own produced and consumed energy.

Based on the simulation on the digital twin, the developers will suggest conclusions and recommendation on the benefits of such a monitoring system compared to the current market. In the end of the research, they will be able to propose a market model that could approach the current energy shortage’s situation.
Contact:
Pierre-Henri Lefebvre
ph.lefebvre@ulg.ac.be