ᐅ Smart Home Incentives Update 02/2020

Feel free to be creative. The problem with concrete examples is that someone will always come along and say "nonsense."

Some ideas:
Presence detectors: Detecting long-term absence in the house or individual rooms
Weather station: Making forecast-based decisions about the next day’s heating needs
Window contacts: Alerting when windows remain open for extended periods during the heating season
Blinds/shutters: Maximizing solar gains while minimizing heat loss
Logic modules: The system learns typical habits and occupancy patterns and adjusts heating output accordingly in advance
Air quality sensors: Regulating controlled ventilation to avoid unnecessary window opening

Is funding for KNX or similar systems not applicable to district heating-based heating? Or does anyone have information about this?

Fuchur schrieb:

Feel free to let your creativity run wild. The problem with specific examples is that someone always comes along and says, "That’s nonsense."

Just some ideas:
Presence detectors: Detecting long-term absence from the house or individual rooms
Weather station: Decision-making for heat demand forecast for the following day
Window contacts: Alarm if windows remain open for a long time during the heating season
Blinds/shutters: Maximizing solar gains and minimizing heat losses
Logic modules: The system learns usual habits/presence and absence times and adjusts heating output in time
Air quality sensors: Regulating the controlled residential ventilation to avoid unnecessary window ventilation

I understand everything you’re saying.
But honestly, you’re expecting people not to think, right? With the inertia of today’s heating systems, this can’t be effectively implemented.
As I said, just asking honestly.

Edit: I’m asking because the main principle is always: the heating regulates itself.

...and yet the ERR (Energy Reference Requirement) is mandatory...as pointless as it sometimes may be...

The question of whether to consider it or not doesn’t even arise... you submit everything and hope for the best... as is usually the case with subsidies...

P.S. It doesn’t work completely without regulation... despite all the self-regulation effects, the energy source and its distribution still need to be somewhat controlled.

Mycraft schrieb:

...and yet the ERR requirement is mandatory...as pointless as it sometimes is...

The question of whether you think about it or not doesn’t really arise... you submit everything and hope for the best...as is always the case with subsidies...

That’s how we’ll proceed as well. Still, I would be interested to hear from trusted people here how you assess the chances of something like this being approved. Of course, I hope they just give it the green light. But I somehow can’t imagine it, as objectively it would simply be foolish.

Tarnari schrieb:

With the inertia of today's heating systems, this can't be implemented effectively.

I see it differently. You may be right that a short-term reduction doesn't have much effect, but that only applies to PM from the list above. In general, energy that is not lost to the outside does not need to be replaced by additional heating. So if I manage to make the heating run proactively and evenly – ideally modulating – this can indeed provide benefits, instead of simply switching between 0% and 100% according to ERR and continuously reacting late to the temperature sensor, which results in fluctuating temperatures.

Moreover, BAFA itself states that even just displaying (visualization) temperatures and consumption is eligible for funding. A display alone can never influence the heating system, but apparently the assumption is enough that residents behave more energy-efficiently when provided with this information.