Smart Neighborhoods Research and Field Verification

Lead Performer: Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Oak Ridge, TN
Partners:
-- Southern Company – Birmingham, AL
-- Alabama Power – Birmingham, AL
-- Georgia Power – Atlanta, GA
-- Rheem – Atlanta, GA
-- Carrier – Farmington, CT
DOE Funding: $2,936,000
FY19 DOE Funding: $1,500,000
Cost Share: $464,000
Project Term: October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2021
Funding Type: Lab Call

Project Objective

The overarching research objective is to develop, demonstrate, and validate a scalable control framework to co-optimize energy cost, occupant comfort, grid reliability and resilience in next-generation neighborhoods that integrate renewable energy sources and energy storage solutions. The project is focused on development of two different open-architecture control platforms for transactive control in residential neighborhoods. Firstly, address building-to-grid integration of centralized microgrid generation/storage resources with controllable residential end-use loads. Secondly, integration of residential-level distributed energy resources (DERs) with controllable end-use loads and behind the meter storage. This project is performed in partnership with Alabama Power and Georgia Power.

Project Impact

The project outcome is open architecture-based transactive control algorithms to manage building-level and community-level energy management systems, leveraging investments from Southern Company, that will enable next-generation neighborhoods with distributed energy resources for improving grid resilience and reducing customer energy costs.

Contacts

DOE Technology Manager: Erika Gupta, [email protected]
Lead Performer: Teja Kuruganti, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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