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Title: Utilizing commercial heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems to provide grid services: A review

Journal Article · · Applied Energy
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  1. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States); OSTI
  2. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  3. Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  4. National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD (United States)

The modern power grid faces multiple challenges due to an increase in the adoption of renewable generation, such as dynamically balancing supply and demand at different time scales. Demand side management in buildings plays a vital role in achieving this balance because buildings can provide grid services through a variety of building assets. However, the development of grid-interactive, efficient buildings is still in its infancy, and a systematic and holistic understanding of grid service delivery strategies in terms of energy efficiency, load shifting, load shedding and load modulating is still limited. This paper is a comprehensive review of the development and application of building-level control strategies for utilizing heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems to provide grid services. These strategies have been investigated through numerical and experimental studies. Control algorithms, such as heuristic rule-based control and model-based control, have been used to enable the automatic control delivery of grid services. The advantages and disadvantages of the strategies are summarized and discussed. Finally, research trends are also identified, which include considering predicted mean vote-based and occupant-based thermal comfort, modeling of occupant behavior, integrating power grid operations with building control, and combining different demand flexibility modes in the control design.

Research Organization:
Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
Grant/Contract Number:
EE0009153
OSTI ID:
1976846
Journal Information:
Applied Energy, Journal Name: Applied Energy Journal Issue: C Vol. 307; ISSN 0306-2619
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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