RE: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion

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RE: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion
The grid usually
forecasts load in the aggregate. 
What is the building forecast for? 
If it is a baseline for a DR program, then who should be responsible for
the forecast?  The customer should
not do it, because of the incentive to bias the forecast.

 

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From: Considine, Toby (Campus Services IT)
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Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 7:31 PM

To: Energy Interop

Subject: RE: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion

 

Traditionally, building load management has been crude, and
aggregated in certain large time granules. Industrial sites, however, have had
strong incentives to manage peaks. 

 

As operating safety margins get smaller, it may become
increasingly important to manage peaks aggressively, even within the
neighborhood or even home. Is some sort of detailed peak /load shape of
interest in the new world? What about power factors? Is the forward and
backward reporting of curves rather than points of measurement the future of
smart metering?

 

tc

 

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  Co-Chair, OASIS Technical Advisory Board

  Facilities Technology Office

  University of North Carolina

  Chapel Hill, NC

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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From: Sila Kiliccote
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Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 6:09 PM

To: Energy Interop

Subject: [energyinterop] Scope questions for discussion

 

All,

David
Holmberg and I had a great conversation today on the scope of EI (which will
hopefully feed into section under discussion). I’d like to open up some
of my ideas and get your feedback before I propose a few paragraphs for the
scope section. 

 I’d
like to look at the scope from a B2G interface point of view and the questions
I suggest we try to answer are: 

 
What information do the buildings need from the
     electricity grid?

 
What information does the electricity grid need from
     the buildings?

 Buildings’ need from the Grid:

-        
Electricity prices (various forms such as absolute, relative, level,
etc)

-        
DR contract parameters – excluding direct load control: A contract
can have the following parameters:

   -         Issue time,
start time, end time

-        
Within the start time and end time there may be a request from the grid
for load reduction (%, absolute, relative, etc) (or load increase - when there
is too much generation)

      
-    Power quality (Do we care how “good” the power
we get from the Grid? Probably! What are the indicators to be communicated to a
building?

 -    Location of the resources needed

 Grid’s
need from buildings:

-        
Measured (current, historical) demand

-        
Predicted demand

-        
Available DR (over next 24 hrs?, 1 week?)

 -   Location identifier (meter, address, grid location
indicator?)

 I
welcome your comments. All of the above assumes that the meter is the
demarcation point. And just to add, the expansion of this to DER can be again
categorized as on the utility side and on the building side but should be a
super set. 

 

Sila