Promoting effective deployment of energy efficiency, end-use electrification, and demand flexibility
Grid Impacts
We conduct innovative analysis on the impacts of efficiency, demand response, and demand flexibility on the distribution and bulk power systems.
The power system is experiencing a rapid transformation of electricity generation and consumption. Reducing building consumption through improved efficiency and changing the timing of electricity use through demand flexibility and demand response strategies are important opportunities to facilitate power system transformation.
EMP’s research explores and quantifies the opportunities of efficient and flexible buildings to benefit distribution and bulk power systems through reductions in peak demand, energy, costs, and emissions. One notable example is the National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, which quantified $100-200 billion in cumulative power system benefits by 2040 through energy efficient buildings with smart technologies optimized to use energy for grid services.
Selected Projects
- Assessing the Interactive Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response on Power System Costs and Emissions
- A multi-level load shape clustering and disaggregation approach to characterize patterns of energy consumption behavior
- A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings
