Best Practices for Resilience in Smart Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings

Grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) allow facilities to manage power demand according to operational constraints and market signals issued by grid operators. With proper design and planning, GEB's responsive 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.