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The present paper introduces a new smart building system driven by photovoltaic thermal panels. The concept is to improve the contribution of renewable energy in the local matrix for peak load shaving by having a two-way connection with the local electricity network via a rule-based energy monitoring control design. Besides, the feasibility of removing the electrical storage unit with high investment cost is studied by establishing a dynamic interaction between the energy production and usage components to reduce the energy costs over the year. The system has intelligent thermal energy storage integrated with an electrically-driven coil, heat exchanger, pumps, and several smart valves and control units. The transient system simulation (TRNSYS) package is implemented to assess the practicality of the suggested intelligent model for a building complex in Malmo, Sweden. According to the parametric outcomes, by raising the panel area, while the generated electricity increases, the solar utilization factor falls, indicating conflictive changes among performance metrics. The results also show that the renewable resource covers the building's heating and electricity demands for the majority of the year and that a significant amount of energy is sold to the neighbourhood electricity grid, demonstrating the viability of the introduced intelligent model.