Lead Performer: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – Menlo Park, CA
September 13, 2017
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Lead Performer: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory – Menlo Park, CA
Partners:
-- National Renewable Energy Laboratory – Golden, CO
-- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Berkeley, CA
-- Kisensum – Oakland, CA
DOE Total Funding: $1,280,000 (GMI funding is a joint EERE/OE initiative, BTO funds contribute to total)
Project Term: August 1, 2016 – March 31, 2019
Funding Opportunity: DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) Lab Call
Project Objective
As a part of the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative, the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium projects represent a comprehensive portfolio of critical research and development in advanced storage systems, clean energy integration, standards and test procedures, and a number of other key grid modernization areas.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory will develop a VOLTTRON extension that provides building level data standardization, enabling transactive services from connected equipment and buildings. VOLTTRON is an open, distributed, agent-based control and sensing software platform that is designed to facilitate more efficient management of energy use among appliances and devices, including HVAC systems, lighting, electric vehicles, and others. The goals of this project:
- Extend the VOLTTRON platform with a common data model and include support for SEP2, DNP3 and OCPP, which are the most commonly used protocols for grid transactions and electric vehicle charging management.
- Deploy a reference implementation at both SLAC's GISMo Laboratory and NREL's ESIF that is connected to live loads, energy resources, and storage in order to provide geographically distributed references to the relevant industry.
Project Impact
This project proposes to define a core VOLTTRON data model on top of the VOLTTRON Interconnect Protocol that will allow for consistent, unified communication of relevant data between agents based-on their tasks to enable VOLTTRON’s functions and extend its capabilities.
Contacts
DOE Technology Manager: Joe Hagerman
Principle Investigator: Slia Kiliccote, SLAC; Dane Christensen, NREL