Best Practices for Resilience in Smart Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
Program Document
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OSTI ID:2472819
The Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) supports federal agencies' energy decisions with information and guidance on design, funding, and operations to ensure federal buildings are efficient and resilient. The modernization of building infrastructure and the evolution of buildings to support decarbonization involves complex implementation of multiple components across several systems. This includes energy-efficient equipment, on-site energy generation and storage systems, and control systems. These systems have operational modes that can operate more efficiently if they are able to behave responsively to the conditions of the electrical grid. These grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEB) allow facilities to manage power demand according to operational constraints and market signals issued by grid operators. With proper design and planning, these same capabilities have the potential to enable building and facility resilience - coordinating with microgrids, maintaining power on critical circuits to sustain essential operations, and monitoring building health and safety status during an outage. By managing the load of buildings, GEBs can also reduce the cost of backup generation and make better use of renewable power sources on site. This document outlines some of the processes and considerations to guide the design and operation of GEBs in ways that promote facility resilience.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Federal Energy Management Programs (FEMP)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- OSTI ID:
- 2472819
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/FS-5R00-91473; MainId:93251; UUID:b5ba1b27-40f8-4a9b-90bf-646344a30d47; MainAdminId:74022
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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