Beneficial Integration of Energy Storage and Load Management with PV Award Number: DE-EE0007163 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B5.16 Solar Energy Technologies Office Date: 12/22/15 Location(s): TN Office(s): Golden Field Office
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December 22, 2015
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Beneficial Integration of Energy Storage and Load Management with PV
Award Number: DE-EE0007163
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B5.16
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Date: 12/22/2015
Location(s): TN
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to optimize photovoltaic (PV) control architecture for beneficial integration of distributed energy resources with the grid.
Proposed activities would include design, development and demonstration of EPRI’s utility-level system control, with a customer-level, local controller. Product design and project coordination would be completed at EPRI’s offices and labs in Knoxville, TN, Palo Alto, CA, and Charlotte, NC. Product development would be undertaken at several locations concurrently to include: Eaton Corporation’s dedicated research and development (R&D) facility in Menomonee Falls, WI; Alstom Grid’s commercial manufacturing facility in Redmond, WA; Clean Power Research’s commercial manufacturing facility in Kirkland, WA; PowerHub’s commercial manufacturing facility in Blacksburg, VA; and LG Chem’s commercial manufacturing facility in Troy, MI. In-lab component testing would occur at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, NM. Installation and demonstration activities would be completed at the Veale Center on campus at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, OH, and at Summit Hall on campus at Queens College (CUNY) in Flushing, NY. Additional installation and demonstration would take place at two Florida residences with pre-existing rooftop solar power systems although the specific locations have yet to be identified.