The Influence of a CO2 Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings
Abstract
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is working with the California Energy Commission (CEC) to determine the potential role of commercial-sector distributed energy resources (DER) with combined heat and power (CHP) in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions. Historically, relatively little attention has been paid to the potential of medium-sized commercial buildings with peak electric loads ranging from 100 kW to 5 MW. In our research, we examine how these medium-sized commercial buildings might implement DER and CHP. The buildings are able to adopt and operate various technologies, e.g., photovoltaics (PV), on-site thermal generation, heat exchangers, solar thermal collectors, absorption chillers, batteries and thermal storage systems. We apply the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM), which is a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that minimizes a site?s annual energy costs and/or CO2 emissions. Using 138 representative mid-sized commercial sites in California, existing tariffs of major utilities, and expected performance data of available technologies in 2020, we find the GHG reduction potential for these buildings. We compare different policy instruments, e.g., a CO2 pricing scheme or a feed-in tariff (FiT), and show their contributions to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) goals of additional 4 GW CHP capacities and 6.7more »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- Environmental Energy Technologies Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 984309
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-3560E
TRN: US201015%%961
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Center for Research in Regulated Industries 23rd Annual Western Conference, Montery, CA, 23-25 June 2010
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; ABSORPTION; AIR; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATIC CHANGE; COGENERATION; COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; ENERGY ACCOUNTING; FUEL CELLS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEAT STORAGE; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PERFORMANCE; PRICES; SATURATION; TARIFFS; CARBON DIOXIDE; combined heat and power, CHP, CO2 emissions, distributed energy resources, GHG control, microgrids, policies
Citation Formats
Stadler, Michael, Marnay, Chris, Lai, Judy, Cardoso, Goncalo, Megel, Olivier, and Siddiqui, Afzal. The Influence of a CO2 Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings. United States: N. p., 2010.
Web.
Stadler, Michael, Marnay, Chris, Lai, Judy, Cardoso, Goncalo, Megel, Olivier, & Siddiqui, Afzal. The Influence of a CO2 Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings. United States.
Stadler, Michael, Marnay, Chris, Lai, Judy, Cardoso, Goncalo, Megel, Olivier, and Siddiqui, Afzal. 2010.
"The Influence of a CO2 Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/984309.
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title = {The Influence of a CO2 Pricing Scheme on Distributed Energy Resources in California's Commercial Buildings},
author = {Stadler, Michael and Marnay, Chris and Lai, Judy and Cardoso, Goncalo and Megel, Olivier and Siddiqui, Afzal},
abstractNote = {The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is working with the California Energy Commission (CEC) to determine the potential role of commercial-sector distributed energy resources (DER) with combined heat and power (CHP) in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) reductions. Historically, relatively little attention has been paid to the potential of medium-sized commercial buildings with peak electric loads ranging from 100 kW to 5 MW. In our research, we examine how these medium-sized commercial buildings might implement DER and CHP. The buildings are able to adopt and operate various technologies, e.g., photovoltaics (PV), on-site thermal generation, heat exchangers, solar thermal collectors, absorption chillers, batteries and thermal storage systems. We apply the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM), which is a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) that minimizes a site?s annual energy costs and/or CO2 emissions. Using 138 representative mid-sized commercial sites in California, existing tariffs of major utilities, and expected performance data of available technologies in 2020, we find the GHG reduction potential for these buildings. We compare different policy instruments, e.g., a CO2 pricing scheme or a feed-in tariff (FiT), and show their contributions to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) goals of additional 4 GW CHP capacities and 6.7 Mt/a GHG reduction in California by 2020. By applying different price levels for CO2, we find that there is competition between fuel cells and PV/solar thermal. It is found that the PV/solar thermal adoption increases rapidly, but shows a saturation at high CO2 prices, partly due to limited space for PV and solar thermal. Additionally, we find that large office buildings are good hosts for CHP in general. However, most interesting is the fact that fossil-based CHP adoption also increases with increasing CO2 prices. We will show service territory specific results since the attractiveness of DER varies widely by climate zone and service territory.},
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