Solar + Storage Synergies for Managing Commercial-Customer Demand Charges

Technical Report · Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1405905· OSTI ID:1405905

Gagnon, Pieter J. ^[1]; Govindarajan, Anand ^[1]; Bird, Lori A. ^[1]; Barbose, Galen ^[2]; Darghouth, Naim ^[2]; Mills, Andrew ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

We study the synergies between behind-the-meter solar and storage in reducing commercial-customer demand charges. This follows two previous studies that examined demand charge savings for stand-alone solar in both the residential and commercial sectors. In this study we show that solar and storage show consistent synergies for demand charge management, that the magnitude of reductions are highly customer-specific, and that the magnitude of savings is influenced by the design of the electricity tariff.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1405905
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-6A20-70360
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
LBNL
demand charge
solar plus storage
solar
storage
behind-the-meter
savings
synergies