The first working phase experts meeting was held on April 11-13, 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. The meeting was attended by 23 experts from Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Norway, UK and the USA (see Figure 2 and Table 3).  This three days meeting included a mix of presentations made by team members and invited guests integrated into the relevant Subtasks discussion, discussions of individual subtasks and format of collected information and its presentation in subtasks deliverables.  The presentations are documented below.

Presentations

• Annex 73 Overview
  Dr. Alexander Zhivov, US Army Engineer Research and DevelopmentCenter, Champaign, IL USA
  Rüdiger Lohse, KEA- Climate protection and energy agency of Baden- Württemberg GmbH, Germany
• Bottom Up Versus Top Down - Approaches Towards Low Energy Neighbourhoods in Austria
  Anna M. Fulterer, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies (AEE INTEC)
  F. Mautner, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies (AEE INTEC)
  D.Venus, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies (AEE INTEC)
  I.Leusbrock, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies (AEE INTEC)
  Heimo Staller, AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies (AEE INTEC)
• Energy Master Planning on Campuses for Efficiency, Economy & Resiliency
  Robert P. Thornton, President & CEO, International District Energy Association
• Exemplary Results of the German Eneff:Stadt Research Program: Strategies, Technologies and Tools
  Dr.-Ing. Rita Streblow
• From ZEB to ZEN
  Matthias Haase, PhD, Senior Research Scientist SINTEF Byggforsk | SINTEF Building and Infrastructure
• Incorporating resilience as a goal within energy master planning
  Dr. Robert Jeffers, Sandia National Laboratories
• Modeling Flexibility and Energy Market participation of Plus Energy Neighborhoods with PV/Heat pump Systems
  Sim4Blocks
• Planning district Energy IEA Annex 73
  Anders Dyrelund, Ramboll Energy
• Pilot Case Study Evaluations ? German contribution‚ "Smart Energy Retrofit of a Multi-family Building Cluster" - Pre-planning Results
  R. Jank
  D. Pietruschka
• Scenarios for a Zero- Carbon Inner City University Campus using 3D Modeling
  Prof. Dr. Ursula Eicker, Hochschule für Technik (HFT), Stuttgart
• Smart Energy Transition (SET) - Project
  Riikka Holopainen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
  Francesco Reda, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
  Ari Laitinen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
  Sami Karjalainen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.

Subtasks

• Task A - Energy Targets Update
  Terry Sharp, P.E. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
• Cost effective Danish DH cases Contribution to Subtask B
  Anders Dyrelund, Ramboll Energy
• List of content Task C
  Anders Dyrelund, Ramboll Energy
• Subtask D: Local Energy Planning Guide Workflow
  Dr. Alexander Zhivov, US Army Engineer Research and DevelopmentCenter, Champaign, IL USA
  Rüdiger Lohse, KEA- Climate protection and energy agency of Baden- Württemberg GmbH, German
  R. Jank
• Deep Energy Retrofit Model (DEROM) - Integrated Energy Analysis Tool for Building Retrofit Strategies - entry into Subtask E neighbourhood pre-planning tool
  R. Jank
• Subtask F
  Rüdiger Lohse, KEA- Climate protection and energy agency of Baden- Württemberg GmbH, Germany

Event Photos