Zero Peak Energy Building Design for India (ZED-i)

在许多发展中国家，不断增长的能源需求以及随之而来的碳排放被视为日益繁荣的明确指标。这一轨迹不仅对全球碳排放量，而且对印度等国家实现其发展目标的能力都有重要影响。这是因为，在大多数发展中国家，由于建设能源基础设施需要大量资本投资，能源需求的增长远远超过供应的增长。因此，即使是能够使用能源网络的人也经常发现，由于供应短缺，他们无法满足自己的舒适需求。然而，最关键的问题往往不是平均需求-例如，印度的人均能源需求仅为英国的13%-而是 ** 峰值需求 **，因为它给已经脆弱的网络带来了巨大的压力。因此，人们获得舒适的内部条件的能力在他们最需要它的确切时间-在极端炎热或寒冷的时候受到损害。该项目旨在消除产生高峰需求的建筑物中的高峰需求，从而直接解决减少高峰需求的问题。在大多数发展中国家，未来的绝大多数建筑物仍有待建造，因此存在着一个真实的机会，可以在确保舒适条件的同时，将经济增长与建筑物能源使用脱钩。我们的目标是通过为温暖气候下的零峰值能源建筑设计 ** 的新科学奠定基础来实现这一目标。这将通过仔细考虑天气信号（现在和将来）来实现，天气信号对于任何实际评估平均和峰值能源需求都至关重要。第二个重点是提供一种不仅与印度气候兼容，而且与其建筑实践和社会习俗兼容的建筑方法，从而避免“进口”标准的陷阱。这将通过在6个气候不同的城市为一系列建筑类型创建60条路径来实现。最后，我们还将考虑如何在建筑物之间移动负荷，以在网络层面实现平稳的需求分布。

In many developing countries, rising energy demand, and consequently carbon emissions, is seen as an unequivocal indicator of increasing prosperity. This trajectory has important consequences not just for global carbon emissions but for the ability of countries such as India to achieve its developmental goals. This is because, in most developing countries, growth in energy demand far outstrips growth in supply due to the large capital investment required to build energy infrastructure. Thus, even people *with* access to energy networks often find that they are unable to meet their comfort needs due to supply shortages. However, the most critical problem is often not mean demand - e.g. mean per capita energy demand in India is only 13% that of the UK - but rather **peak demand** as it lays immense stress on already fragile networks. Hence, people's ability to attain comfortable internal conditions is compromised at the precise time that they need it the most - during extreme heat or cold. This project directly addresses the problem of peak demand reduction by aiming to eliminate peak demand in buildings, where it is created. In most developing countries, the vast majority of the building stock of the future is still to be built, so there is a real opportunity to decouple economic growth from building energy use whilst ensuring comfortable conditions. We aim to achieve this through laying the foundations for a **new science of zero peak energy building design** for warm climates. This will be achieved through a careful consideration of the weather signal (now and in the future) which is critical for any realistic assessment of mean dan peak energy demand. A second focus is on delivering a method of construction that is compatible not only with the Indian climate but also its building practices and social customs, thus avoiding the trap of an "imported" standard. This will be delivered through the creation of 60 pathways for a range of building types in 6 cities comprising different climates. Finally, we will also consider how loads can be moved between buildings to achieve a smooth demand profile at network level.