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The Building Technologies Office research is helping make buildings become smarter about the amount and timing of energy use through the Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) Initiative. In addition to improving the energy efficiency of the overall building, this research focuses on making equipment more intelligent through next-generation sensors, controls, connectivity and communication. These capabilities give building occupants more control in managing building comfort and productivity while saving money on energy bills, plus they can benefit the electric grid by enhancing grid reliability and resilience, deferring capital expenditures, and helping balance the supply of renewable generation.
In direct support of the GEB Initiative and Energy Storage Grand Challenge (ESGC), the Building Technologies Office is focused on thermal storage research, development and field validation, seeking to accelerate the commercialization and utilization of next-generation energy storage technologies and sustain American global leadership in energy storage.
See the R&D targets for Next Generation Thermal Storage Materials.
- Overview of Research Challenges and Gaps GEB Technical Report
- Whole-Building Controls, Sensors, Modeling, and Analytics GEB Technical Report
- Windows and Opaque Envelope GEB Technical Report
- HVAC, Water Heating, Appliances and Refrigeration GEB Technical Report
- Lighting and Electronics GEB Technical Report
- A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions
- Connected Communities: A Multi-Building Energy Management Approach
- Challenges and Opportunities to Secure Buildings from Cyber Threats
- SEE Action: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments
- SEE Action: Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
- SEE Action: Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations
- Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs) Tri-Region Status Report
- End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock
- Time-Sensitive Valuation of Efficiency – Use Cases in Electricity Sector Planning and Programs Temporal Analysis and Use Cases
- Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Fact Sheet
- ACEEE - Integrating Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programs
- ACEEE - State of the Market: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Utility Programs
- ASHRAE - Position Document on Resiliency in the Built Environment
- NASEO - Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: State Briefing Paper
- NASEO - Residential GEB Technology and Policy: Harnessing the Power of Homes for a Clean, Affordable, and Resilient Grid of the Future
- Rocky Mountain Institute - Value Potential for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings in the GSA Portfolio: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Simmons visits grand opening of Alabama Power’s Smart Neighborhood – June 13, 2018 – U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Energy Institute’s Energy Innovates initiative
- Annex 67 Building Flexibility Project – International Energy Agency’s Energy in Buildings and Communities Programme
- Testimony by Acting Assistant Secretary EERE Daniel Simmons - October 31, 2017 - U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Assessing the Potential for Energy Flexibility Alongside Energy Efficiency - June 19, 2020
- Connected Communities Examples: Spotlight on Reynolds Landing – May 4, 2020
- PLMA Load Management Dialogue – Future Connected Communities: Validating Buildings as a Grid Resource – April 2, 2020
- Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: IEA Modernising Energy Efficiency through Digitalisation Initiative - January 31, 2019
- Overview of R&D Related to Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings and Automated Demand Response - December 11, 2018
- Breaking Out the New Moves: How Resource Flexibility Benefits Utility Operations Panel – November 14, 2018
- Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings - Improving & Optimizing – September 24, 2018 – 2018 NASEO Annual Meeting
- Look Who’s Talking: Buildings and the Grid Roundtable – August 17, 2018 – 2018 Energy Exchange | Better Buildings Summit
- Time-Varying Value of Energy Efficiency – November 1, 2017 – 2017 ACEEE Energy Efficiency as a Resource Conference
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