Seminar 17 -- How Can Connected Communities Support Global Legislative Decarbonization and Electrification Targets Cost-Effectively and at Scale?

2024 ASHRAE Annual Conference

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Connected Communities (CCs) are key to decarbonizing and electrifying the built environment and mitigating climate change; they consist of grid-interactive buildings with flexible distributed energy resources (DERs) that collectively support reliability and resiliency when the power generation is fully decarbonized. The seminar will provide an overview of coordinated control architectures of the ten U.S. Department of Energy's CC Projects, show how a hard-to-reach segment of CCs can support compliance with Building Performance Standards and show how DERs installed at scale in new and existing all electric homes can help utilities decarbonize while maintaining grid reliability.

1. Coordinated Control Architectures to Support Community-Scale Decarbonization of Buildings and the Grid Paul Lazlo, Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, Berkley, CA
2. How Do Connected Communities Support Compliance with Building Performance Standards (BPS) in Hard-to-Reach Segments? Sivakumar Sankaranarayanan, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
3. How Can Distributed Energy Resources be Installed at Scale in New and Existing All Electric Homes to Help Utilities Decarbonize While Maintaining Grid Reliability Andrew Poerschke, IBACOS, Pittsburgh, PA