Advancing Smart Energy Homes and Buildings in the Northeast
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SMART ENERGY HOMES AND BUILDINGS Evolving Homes and Buildings to Keep Up with the Evolving Grid August 27, 2020 Building Decarbonization 3 Key Elements Advanced Electric Deep Energy Grid Technologies Efficiency Integration Space/Water Thermal Flexible use of Heating – Heat Pumps Improvements Low-Carbon Electricity Northeast Strategic Electrification Action Plan – NEEP 2018 1 Allies Network State Partners Connecticut New York State Partners: CT DEEP, CT Energy Efficiency Board, Eversource State Partners: NYSERDA Energy, United Illuminating Company, Southern Connecticut Gas and Connecticut Natural Gas Partners in 2017/2018/2019/2020 Partners in 2017/2018/2019/2020 Rhode Island State Partners: RI Office of Energy Resources, National Grid RI, RI District of Columbia Department and Education and RI Energy Efficiency & Resource State Partners: Department of Energy and Environment and DC Management Council Sustainable Energy Utility Partners in 2017/2018/2019/2020 Partners in 2017/2019/2020 Vermont Massachusetts State Partners: Efficiency Vermont State Partners: Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources Partners in 2017/2018/2019/2020 Partners in 2019 West Virginia New Hampshire State Partners: West Virginia Office of Energy State Partners: NH Office of Strategic Initiatives, NH Public Utilities Commission, Eversource Energy, NH Electric Coop, Unitil and Partners in 2020 Liberty Utilities Partners in 2017/2018/2019/2020 3 Agenda at a Glance 4 SESSION 1 The Current State of Smart Energy Homes and Buildings 5 Integrating Smart Energy Homes and Buildings with a Modernized Grid: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Overview Monica Neukomm, US DOE Building Technologies Office August 2020 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 6 Smart Building…Smart Energy Management…GEB © Navigant Consulting Inc. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 7 GEB is about enabling buildings to provide flexibility in energy use and grid operation U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 8 Key Characteristics of GEBs A GEB is an energy-efficient building that uses smart technologies and on-site DERs to provide demand flexibility while co-optimizing for energy cost, grid services, and occupant needs and preferences, in a continuous and integrated way. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 9 ACEEE’s GEB Utility Programs: State of the Market Report U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 10 Potential Benefits of Flexible Building Loads Energy Affordability Improved reliability & resiliency Reduced grid congestion Enhanced services Environmental benefits Customer choice U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 11 Mapping Flexibility Modes and Grid Services Buildings can provide grid services through 4 demand management modes. Efficiency Load Shed Load Shift Modulate Grid Services Grid ServicesGrid ServicesGrid Provided Services Grid Services • Generation: • Contingency • Generation: • Frequency Energy & Reserves Capacity Regulation Capacity • Generation: • Non-Wires • Ramping • Non-Wires Energy & Capacity Solutions Solutions • Non-Wires Solutions Examples •Daylighting with •Reduce plug loads •Precool with T-stat; •Rapid dimming of sensors & controls preheat water heater lighting U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 12 BTO’s grid-interactive efficient buildings portfolio VALUATION TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS How do time & the interaction of flexibility options Which end use technologies provide solutions to impact value? specific grid needs? Identify values to stakeholders, quantification of Prioritize technologies / solutions based on grid national value. services. OPTIMIZATION VALIDATION How to maintain or improve services while Do technologies perform as predicted and meet optimizing for flexibility? grid & occupant needs? Solutions that meet grid operator & building Verification of technologies / strategies, increasing occupant needs. confidence in the value of energy flexibility. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 13 Key Activities 2020-2021 Stakeholder Engagement Research & Validation • Utility working group focused on EE/DR • Demand flexibility technology metrics integration & GEB projects • Continued focus on research projects across • State working group focused on 4 TA HVAC, lighting, water heaters, appliances, areas: Potential, pilots, lead by example & controls, modeling focused on determining valuation demand flexibility capability (BENEFIT FOA) • Commercial building working group • Community focus on demand flexibility focused on technology optimization & (Connected Communities FOA) business case • Occupant thresholds and impacts • GEB Roadmap focused on a national • Commercial, residential, community DF perspective of defining potential and datasets from validation projects implementation needs to scale GEBs U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 14 GMLC Technical Assistance Technical Assistance: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Year One Technical Assistance Topics Project Description Public Buildings- Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, In partnership with NASEO and NARUC, provide direct technical Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, South assistance (TA) over two years to state energy offices (SEOs) and Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Wyoming public utility commissions (PUCs) to advance buildings that can 1.1: Encourage demand flexibility in state provide grid services through demand flexibility — using distributed energy resources (DERs) to reduce, shed, shift, buildings modulate and generate electricity.. 1.2: Framework to prioritize demand flexibility in state buildings Potential - Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and South Carolina 2.1: Assess demand flexibility impact Valuation - New York, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, 2.2: Inform utility rate designs that Oregon and South Carolina encourage demand flexibility Held a webinar on April 6 on SEE Action report Pilots - Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, South TA will be provided to the GEB WG in coordination with the NARUC-NASEO Task Force on Comprehensive Electricity Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington Planning with separate funding 3.1: Pilot projects: Creation to completion Institutional Support U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 15 GEB Roadmap – IN PROGRESS DRAFT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 16 Example Connected Community Pilots Smart Neighborhood (Alabama) Scale: A 62-home new construction Capacity: 1 MW microgrid Partners: Alabama Power, EPRI, and ORNL Technologies: DERs (solar, storage, EVs), Volttron controls Source https://www.linchousing.org/communities/seasons-at-ontario- gateway-plaza Source https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/alabama-reynolds-landing-microgrid-grid-edge SEASONS at Ontario Gateway (California) Scale: 80-unit, multi-family low-income retrofit, retail Partners: retrofit and new mixed-use senior living & retail Technologies: Rooftop PV, near zero-energy retrofit, smart thermostat controls Source https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/pnnl-led-campus-project-expands-multiple-buildings Transactive Campus (Washington) Source https://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/pena-station-next Scale: Phase 1: 4-8 commercial buildings; tens of bldgs in future phases Pena Station NEXT (Colorado) Partners: PNNL, Avista Energy, WSU, UW, Univ of Toledo, DOE Scale: 382-acre mixed use new construction at rail station Technologies: Volttron-based transactive energy system to control Capacity: 2-3 MW microgrid thermostats, AHUs, battery storage, PV, lighting, EVSE Partners: Xcel Energy, Panasonic Technologies: DERs (rooftop and carport PV, storage) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 17 Benefits of Multi-Building Approach Able to collectively afford and share Achieve infrastructure Facilitate economies of incorporation of scale additional DERs Leverage load diversity to smooth demand curves Achieve greater impact through Thus can achieve scale more than the Allow for innovative sum of individual business models buildings Photo by Haikal Omar from Pexels U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 18 “Communities” Could Take Many Forms Geographically- Residential dispersed building neighborhood portfolio Mixed-use development Utility territory Downtown commercial New construction district University, or corporate campus Existing building retrofits U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLE ENERGY 19 DOE Intends to Invest $42 Million into “Connected Communities” Funding opportunity would enable regional GEB communities to share research results and lessons learned on projects that increase grid reliability, resilience, security and energy integration well into the future. Demonstrate and evaluate the capacity Photo Courtesy of Patrick Schreiber via Unsplash of buildings as grid assets by flexing load in both new developments and Connected Community: existing communities across diverse A group of grid-interactive efficient climates, geography, building types and buildings (GEBs) with diverse, flexible grid/regulatory structures end use equipment that collectively Share research results and lessons- work to maximize building and grid learned on projects that improve