Webinar: How open-standard appliance orchestration will help proliferate renewable energy – Wednesday, 22 Jul 2020 at 11am PT
This one-hour webinar took place on 22 July 2020.
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Presentation slides are available inPDFformat.
One of the least expensive ways to integrate more renewables into our energy system is to orchestrate large electrical loads in buildings.
While thermostats have been getting all the press, anyone who has experienced a 2- or 4-degree temperature rise on a hot day knows that comfort is impacted. But some loads, such as water heaters, can be orchestrated to turn on at the right time – not at random times, as they have traditionally done – without sacrificing comfort. Orchestrating California’s 13 million+ water heaters to run during peak solar-generation hours would make a significant impact.
Open-standard solutions are critical to cost-effective appliance orchestration. Tucson Electric Power’s Project RAIN (Resource Aggregation and Integration Network) showed how open standards ease the installation and orchestration of common consumer devices and distributed energy resources (DER) such as thermostats, water heaters, electric vehicle (EV) chargers, battery storage, and solar.
This webinar covered:
- How the OpenADR and CTA-2045 open standards work together to support appliance control
- Real-world implementation of an appliance orchestration system at Tucson Electric Power
- The state of the art in appliance orchestration and value to the grid:
- Increasing resilience
- Supporting increased renewables
- Supporting future microgrid capability
- Lessons for the future
Presenters
Tristan de Frondeville is CEO at SkyCentrics, a leader in open standards smart building solutions that include CTA-2045, OpenADR, Volttron, and Linux. He has more than 20 years experience in software and hardware engineering management, including at Apple, and SRI International. Tristan is on the Consumer Technology Association committee managing the CTA-2045 standard, as well as working with NEEA, ACEEE, Energy Star, and National Laboratories on OpenADR, Volttron, and other regulatory and policy initiatives, where his main focus is enabling buildings and electric loads to support increased renewables on the grid.
Craig Breaden is Lead Integration Engineer at Smarter Grid Solutions, a software company that provides distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) solutions, with expertise in deploying DERMS at utilities in North America and the United Kingdom. He has extensive experience in power systems control, including the certification IEC 61850 Client & Server as well as emerging protocols such as OpenADR and Sunspec Modbus.