Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Connected Communities for Achieving Carbon Neutrality

This seminar presents recent research from national labs aimed at promoting these connected communities.

Connected communities of grid-interactive efficient buildings leverage smart controls, sensors, and analytics to engage with the electrical grid, effectively reducing carbon emissions and lowering energy costs. This seminar presents recent research from national labs aimed at promoting these connected communities. It begins by the study of advanced control strategies, such as transactive control and stochastic model predictive control, to address the complexities and uncertainties of community-level energy systems. The seminar then focuses on the development of a low-cost wireless communication platform designed to facilitate the large-scale implementation of control and management technologies that optimize energy consumption and enhance demand flexibility for small and medium-sized commercial buildings. Finally, the seminar highlights ongoing efforts to establish a nationwide federation of control testbeds that offers a scalable solution for large-scale interoperability and performance assessment of demand flexibility control strategies.