Advanced Carbon and Energy Management and Eco-design Platform for Urban Districts

中国的“十三五”规划提出了绿色发展，其中一部分量化目标是到2020年将非化石燃料能源的比例提高到15%。一个关键的挑战是城市地区能源和碳的智能数据管理。规划者、设计师、场地管理人员和最终用户之间存在差距，最终，如何解释能源数据，以支持建筑内的节能或可再生应用。为应对这一挑战，本项目旨在开发先进的城市碳能源管理和生态设计云计算平台，以评估和管理化石燃料的能源消耗和节约，预测和控制碳和其他污染物的排放，管理可再生能源和能效技术的应用，并开发城市/地区层面的生态设计。云计算平台将实现智能城市规划和能源与环境系统的监测和优化，从而实现化石燃料的节能减排，并促进可再生能源技术的应用。平台牌照在广东的广泛使用必将为中国实现绿色发展做出贡献，在经济上，引入基于该平台的创新驱动型业务，预计年营业额可达5000万元人民币左右，从而为中英两国带来显著的经济和社会效益。

The Chinese 13th Five-Year Plan sets out its green development – part of its quantitative targets is to increase the share of non-fossil fuel energy to 15% by 2020. A key challenge is smart data management for energy and carbon within urban areas. There are gaps in between planners, designers, site managers and the end users, and eventually, how to interpret energy data so as to support energy saving or renewable applications within buildings. Addressing this challenge, this project aims to develop an advanced cloud-computing platform for urban level carbon & energy management and eco-design, which is functioned to evaluate and manage the fossil fuel energy consumption and saving, predict and control carbon and other contaminants emissions, manage the renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies application, and develop eco-designs at urban/district levels. The cloud-computing platform will enable smart urban planning and energy & environment systems monitoring and optimisation, thus achieving fossil fuel energy saving, carbon reduction as well as promoting renewable energy technologies application. Widely use of the platform licenses in Guangdong will definitely contribute China toward achieving its green development, economically, introducing an innovation-driven business based on this platform, it is estimated that the possible annual turnover could be approximately 50m CNY, therefore generating significant economic and social benefits to both China and the UK.