Energy supply of buildings in urban context currently undergoes significant changes. The increase of renewable energy sources for electrical and thermal energy generation will require flexible and secure energy storage and distribution systems. To reflect and consider these changes in energy systems and buildings, dynamic simulation is one key element, when it comes to thermal energy demand on minutely or hourly scale. Sparse and limited access to detailed building information as well as computing times are challenges for building simulation on urban scale. In addition, data acquisition and modeling for Building Performance Simulation (BPS) are time consuming and error-prone. To enable the use of BPS on urban scale we present the TEASER tool, an open framework for urban energy modeling of building stocks. TEASER provides an easy interface for multiple data sources(e.g. CityGML, SQL, …), data enrichment (where necessary) and export of ready-to-run Modelica simulation models for all libraries supporting the Modelica IBPSA library.
The tool is freely accessible at: https://github.com/RWTH-EBC/TEASER
Parts of TEASER have been developed within public funded projects and with financial support by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.