NASEO GEB Resources

What's new? 

NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group virtual meeting - tentative December 10, 3:00-5:00 PM ET - discussion of National GEB Roadmap and National Lab GEB technical assistance

DOE Connected Communities FOA: Up to $65M for Connected Communities projects that will find and share technical and market solutions to increase demand flexibility and energy efficiency. More information at the EERE Funding Opportunity Exchange.  Informational webinar on November 10, 2020, 2:00 pm ET (register here). Concept paper due February 17, 2021, 5:00 pm ET. Full application due March 3, 2021, 5:00 pm ET.

NASEO 2020 Annual Meeting October 6-8, 2020 - (virtual event) - will have GEB/demand flexibility pertinent sessions

DOE Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) 2020 Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)

NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group Webinar: Portland General Electric Smart Grid Test Bed September 9, 2020, 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET -- recording available by "registering" here; presentation available on request.

National Standard Practice Manual for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Distributed Energy Resources (NSPM for DERs) summary and full manual - webinar slides

SEE Action Network, Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations (July 2020) - slides

GSA's Proving Ground Program Selects Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Solutions for Evaluation (July 28, 2020)

B. F. Gerke, et al., The California Demand Response Potential Study, Phase 3: Final Report on the Shift Resource through 2030, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (July 2020) 

GEB Working Group Technical Assistance calls and resources (participation limited to Working Group states, contact Rodney Sobin rsobin@naseo.org or Ed Carley ecarley@naseo.org for information):

• Demand flexibility valuation TA
  • webinars, June 17 (recording) and June 30 (recording) -
• GEB/demand flexibility potential TA
  • July 17, 2020 webinar/meeting presentation
• Public buildings GEB/demand flexibility TA
  • Contact Rodney Sobin rsobin@naseo.org or Natalie Mims Frick nfrick@lbl.gov for queries.

Washington UTC Demand Response Potential And Target Setting Workshop (June 8, 2020) - The Potential for Load Flexibility (The Brattle Group) and Demand Response Insights for the Northwest (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

• NASEO, "Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings: State Briefing Paper" (October 2019)
• NASEO, "Roadmapping: A Tool for States to Advance Load Flexibility and Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings" (November 2019)
• NASEO, "Considerations for Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) Pilot Projects" (December 2019)
• C. Perry, H. Bastian, and D. York (ACEEE), "State of the Market: Grid-interactive Efficient Building Utility Programs" (October 2019)
• K. Saul Rinaldi, E. Bunnen, and S. Rogers, "Residential Grid-interactive Efficient Building Technology and Policy: Harnessing the Power of Homes for a Clean, Affordable, Resilient Grid of the Future" (October 2019)

• GSA Green Building Advisory Committee: Federal Building & Grid Integration: Proposed Roadmap and Advice Letter (December 2019)
  • Integrating Public Buildings with the Grid - Ken Sandler (GSA) , February 4, 2020, NASEO Buildings Committee meeting at the 2020 NASEO Energy Policy Outlook Conference and Innovation Summit
• The Brattle Group, "The National Potential for Load Flexibility: Value and Market Potential Through 2030" (June 2019)
• C. Goldenberg, M. Dyson, and H. Masters, "Demand Flexibility: The Key to Enabling a Low-Cost-, Low-Carbon Grid," Rocky Mountain Institute (February 2018)
• Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships (NEEP), "Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBS) Tri-Region Status Report" (January 2020)
• V. Olgyay, S. Coan, B. Webster, and W. Livingood, "Connected Communities: A Multi-Building Energy Management Approach,"  National Renewable Energy Laboratory (May 2020)
• Rocky Mountain Institute and U.S. General Services Administration, "Value Potential for Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings in the GSA Portfolio" (2019)
• Southwest Energy Efficiency Project (SWEEP)
  • J. Brant, "Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Providing Energy Demand Flexibility for Utilities in the Southwest" (2019)
  • N. Kellogg, "Smart-Tech Housing Developments in the Southwest: Grid-Integrated and Energy Efficient" (2019)

• U.S. Department of Energy
  • Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP): Profiles of demand response and time-variable pricing programs by state - GEB owners and energy service providers can financially benefit from DR and time-variable pricing that rewards certain demand reduction, shedding, and shifting operations.
• U.S. Department of Energy GEB
  • Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings: Factsheet
  • Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings: Overview
  • Technical reports (and related webinars)

    • Overview of Research Challenges and Gaps GEB Technical Report

    • Whole-Building Controls, Sensors, Modeling, and Analytics GEB Technical Report  (May 19, 2020 webinar slides)

    • Windows and Opaque Envelope GEB Technical Report (June 16, 2020 webinar slides)

    • HVAC, Water Heating, Appliances and Refrigeration GEB Technical Report (June 2, 2020  HVAC webinar slides; June 9, 2020 Water Heating, Appliances, Refrigeration slides)

    • Lighting and Electronics GEB Technical Report (May 26, 2020 webinar slides)

    • Integration - Building Equipment webinar (June 23, 2020 slides)

    • Integration - Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) webinar (June 30, 2020 slides)

• SEE Action Network 
  • Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (April 2020) 
  • Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments (April 2020) - slides
  • Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations (July 2020) - slides
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Electricity Markets and Policy Group
  • Time- and Locational-Sensitive Value resources, including end-use load profile and peak demand impacts of energy efficiency resources

Webinars 

• NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group Webinar: Portland General Electric Smart Grid Test Bed - September 9, 2020 - Kaci Radcliffe (Oregon Dept. of Energy), Timothy Treadwell (Portland General Electric); recording available by "registering" here; presentation available on request.
• NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group Webinar: Grid-interactive Appliances - July 27, 2020 - Abigail Daken (EPA), Ashley Armstrong (A.O. Smith Corp.), Sarah Vorpahl (Washington State Dept. of Commerce)
• NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group Webinar: Emission Aspects of Demand Flexibility  - June 4, 2020 - Colby Tucker (EPA), Henry Richardson (WattTime), Nancy Seidman (Regulatory Assistance Project)
• NASEO-NARUC Webinar: Valuing Demand Flexibility for Electric Utility Systems - April 6, 2020 - Tom Eckman and Lisa Schwartz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• NASEO-NARUC GEB Working Group Technical Assistance Next Steps January 23, 2020
• GEB Working Group Meeting and Webinar - December 18, 2019 - Rodney Sobin (NASEO), Natalie Mims Frick (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) [2019 accomplishments, 2020 plans, National Lab technical assistance offerings discussion]
• NASEO Webinar: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) – Case Examples
  August 27, 2019 - Neil Cowan and Eric Maurer (Xcel Energy) and Justin Hill and Jim Leverette (Southern Company)
• NASEO-DOE Webinar - Action Steps for States: Moving Towards a Future with Demand Flexibility
  August 13, 2019 - Lisa Schwartz (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• Better Buildings Residential Network (U.S. DOE): Connected Homes and the Grid - Flipping the Switch on the Script - July 25, 2019 - Alice Rosenberg (Consortium for Energy Efficiency), Rodney Sobin (NASEO), Kara Saul Rinaldi (AnnDyl Policy Group) 
• NASEO-NARUC Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Working Group: GEB and Automated Demand Response
  April 10, 2019 - Rodney Sobin (NASEO), Monica Neukomm (U.S. DOE), Mary Ann Piette (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Meeting presentations

• 2019 NASEO Annual Meeting: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Roundtable
  • NASEO-NARUC State Working Group Roundtable and Workshop Overview - Rodney Sobin (NASEO)
  • State Interviews - Hanna Terwilliger (Minnesota Public Utilities Commission), Kaci Radcliffe (Oregon Dept. of Energy)
  • Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Value Propositions and Sectoral Perspectives - Joanne Morin (Massachusetts Dept. of Energy Resources)
  • The Economics of Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs) - Cara Carmichael (Rocky Mountain Institute)
  • Residential Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Technology and Policy - Kara Saul Rinaldi (AnnDyl Policy Group)
  • NYSERDA - RTEM & GEM - Rodney Sobin (NASEO) [on behalf of NYSERDA]
  • Workshop Handout: Actions States Can Take - Rodney Sobin (NASEO)
  • Next Steps - Hanna Terwilliger (Minnesota Public Utilities Commission), Kaci Radcliffe (Oregon Dept. of Energy)

• 2019 NASEO Energy Policy Outlook Conference
  • Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings - David Nemtzow (U.S. DOE)
  • Buildings-to-Grid: Critical Issues for Decision Makers - Natalie Mims Frick (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• 2018 NASEO Annual Meeting (Detroit)

• Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Energy Efficiency & Grid Optimization - David Nemtzow (U.S. DOE)
• What’s Next for Energy Efficiency: Grid Interaction - Chris Baker (The Weidt Group)
• Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings - Jan Berman (PG&E)
• Smart Neighborhood - James Leverette (Southern Co.)

NASEO and State RFI comments

• NASEO Comments on RFI DE-FOA-0002291: Building Technology Office’s Draft Connected Communities Funding Opportunity Announcement (May 2020)
• Colorado Energy Office Comments on RFI DE-FOA-0002291 (May 2020)
• Maryland Energy Administration Comments on RFI DE-FOA-0002291 (May 2020)
• NASEO Comments on Request for Information DE-FOA-0002070: Efficient and Flexible Building Loads (February 2019)