Lead Performer: Post Road Foundation – Oakland, CA
Partners:
-- New Hampshire Electric Cooperative - Plymouth, NH
-- Efficiency Maine Trust – Augusta, ME
-- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – Menlo Park. CA
-- Knowledge Problem – Chicago, IL
DOE Total Funding: $6,500,000
Cost Share: $6,000,000
Project Term: August 1, 2022 – July 31, 2027
Funding Type: Connected Communities FOA Award
Project Objective
Post Road Foundation will work with New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Efficiency Maine Trust, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Knowledge Problem to investigate the capacity of a novel transactive energy service system (TESS) to harmonize communications and optimize energy use among the distributed energy resources, local energy markets, and buildings of three rural communities. Each of these communities, in New Hampshire and Maine, consists of 100 to 250 single-family homes, small commercial buildings, and industrial customers.
Project Impact
The project will address renewable integration in three ways. First, TESS will provide local price signals, which will give NHEC and EMT insight into the value of distributed renewables on particular feeders. Second, by coordinating demand, TESS will increase the capacity of particular feeders to host renewables, such as PV, without distribution system upgrades. Third, by enabling DERs to respond to policy-driven price signals, such as a CO2 price, TESS will reduce curtailment of distribution- or utility-scale renewables in future high-renewable-fraction grids, and thereby increase the environmental and financial value of renewables on such grids.
Contacts
DOE Technology Manager: Luke Gomes
Lead Performer: Sila Kiliccote