Seminar 05 -- Designing Control Systems for Net-Zero Energy Buildings and Communities

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Net-zero energy buildings and communities provide great potential to deliver an efficient facility with on-site or remote renewables. Properly designed and controlled these projects can also provide improved resilience and even become "carbon negative." This seminar focuses on design and control optimization of net-zero buildings. A new process for HVAC and controls design called "co-design" is introduced that uses energy models to concurrently make system design and control decisions resulting in balancing of energy use, generation and storage.

1. Integrated System and Control Design for Net-Zero Energy Communities
   Veronica Adetola, Ph.D., Member, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
2. Optimal Renewable Resource Allocation and Load Scheduling of Resilient Communities
   Wangda Zuo, Ph.D., Member, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA