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Copper Labs Partners with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), to Advance Community Energy Resiliency
Posted March 10, 2023
DENVER – March 7, 2023 – Copper Labs, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is participating in a $3 million grant from the DOE for their combined work on the Solar-Assisted, Stakeholder-Engaged, Autonomous Restoration with Data Orchestration Program (Solar-HERO). This grant is awarded through the Renewable Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER) Funding Program, a $33 million funding program which supports energy resilience projects designed to foster engagement and communication among stakeholders, such as utilities, emergency responders and community groups, especially in underserved areas vulnerable to energy service disruptions.
The Solar-HERO project is focused on automation strategies for rapid energy restoration, and NREL has partnered with Copper Labs to develop an estimation tool that coordinates datasets to enable real-time visibility of a grid. With that data, research teams will identify gaps in information and the needs of community members prior to building a community visibility and controllability upgrade plan that enables automated restoration during power outages. Additionally, this team will develop a virtual emergency operations center allowing interaction and coordination between the different stakeholders to complete rapid and equitable power restoration.
"Real-time meter data is an essential part of any energy service disruption response strategy," said Dan Forman, CEO of Copper Labs. "With Copper Labs' technology, we're supporting the Solar-HERO project with better data from existing meters without requiring hardware retrofits. We are especially proud to bring our technology to a project focused on underserved communities that have previously been vulnerable to system interruptions."
Solutions to the project require real-time field data orchestration, which is possible through Copper Labs' technology. Copper's unique, patented hardware can be installed in central locations to remotely access data from hundreds of individual meters at once, providing utilities and their customers with their own real-time usage data. The information gathered from Copper's devices will enable rapid data sharing of grid status, saving crucial time during extreme power outages or energy loss events. Now, emergency crews, utility operations and community members can assess the situation and have a rapid system restoration plan in place.
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This Startup Turns Electric Water Heaters into Grid Batteries
Shifted Energy is tapping water heaters in lower-income communities to create virtual power plants that help balance the grid, starting in Hawaii.
Posted March 7, 2023
Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy, wants to make sure that the rewards from helping his home state of Hawaii move to 100 percent carbon-free electricity don’t just belong to the lucky few who can afford rooftop solar systems and home batteries.
That’s why his startup has built one of the country’s most advanced virtual power plants on a ubiquitous piece of Hawaiian household technology — electric water heaters.
As of last year, Shifted Energy had equipped more than 3,000 households in multifamily condos and apartment buildings on the islands of Oahu and Maui with its cellular-connected smart-water-heater control modules. Those families earn about $3 a month in utility bill credits for allowing Shifted Energy to turn those water heaters on and off to help balance the grid during sudden shifts in wind and solar power supply. This virtual power plant (VPP) offers the utility a collective capacity of up to 2.5 megawatts of fast-responding grid support.
Shifted Energy’s algorithms predict down to the kilowatt-hour just how much electricity each family needs to provide hot water at different hours of the day, giving utility Hawaiian Electric a resource that’s as reliable as a power plant in terms of flexibility and control. And, unlike a power plant, Shifted Energy can also remotely program water heaters to absorb excess solar power when more is being generated than the grid can handle.
The VPP is part of Hawaiian Electric’s Power Partnerships Program, a groundbreaking approach to enlisting customers to help balance island grids that are mandated by state law to run completely on renewable energy by 2045. Other VPPs from solar-plus-battery aggregators Swell and Sunrun are also participating in this program, but Shifted Energy’s water-heater fleet has been providing its second-by-second capabilities at full capacity for more than a year as those solar-battery projects have just been getting up to speed.
“We’re more than a water-heater company,” Frizzell emphasized. The same algorithms that Shifted Energy has applied to electric water heaters can be applied to home batteries, electric-vehicle chargers and other household appliances.
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NV Energy to Release DER Potential & Forecasting RFP - Expression of Interest
Posted February 28, 2023
NV Energy will shortly release an RFP to procure services and software for distributed energy resources (DER) forecasting and valuation tools. The software toolset should support DER forecasting for 20 years using a bottom up approach, i.e. from customer up through system level. In lieu of a separate traditional and periodic energy efficiency market potential study, NV Energy would like the service provider(s) to use the software toolset to determining the technical, economic, and achievable potential for demand response, distributed generation, behind-the-meter storage, and electric vehicles. This includes determining the potential for integrated DER program approaches and special breakout scenario analysis for achievable program potential for enhanced approaches for low-income customers and historically underserved communities. In addition to the DER market potential study and licenses to the software, models, and analytical toolsets, NV Energy seeks associated configuration and training services for its Integrated Grid Planning (IGP) group so that IGP can generate quarterly and annual updates to DER forecasts along with updates to DER program and non-wires solutions cost-benefit analyses.
Service providers and vendors that are interested in this receiving this RFP—or interested in teaming arrangements—may notify NV Energy by submitting an expression of interest and capability via this link.
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Duke Energy Job Opportunity: Demand Response Analyst II or Senior Demand Response Analyst
Posted February 24, 2023
Position Summary
Position supports key initiatives related to demand response measurement & verification, regulatory compliance and operational support, and complex modeling demand response programs for portfolio planning and regulatory reporting purposes. Responsibilities include: the creation of analytics for product development and regulatory filing requirements emphasizing demand response (DR), load management (LM) and Direct Load Control (DLC); economic dispatch of DR, LM, and DLC programs; regulatory support of DR, LM, and DLC programs; provide project management and technical expertise on special projects requested of the Analytics department. Individuals in this role monitor compliance with program rules for markets organized under regional transmission organizations.
Responsibilities
Support Demand Response / Load Management / Direct Load Control strategy and programs
- Evaluate the value of demand response programs, using SAS or another programming language to analyze meter data.
- Ensure Midwest Demand Response compliance with applicable FERC, MISO, PJM and NERC filing requirements.
- Perform analysis to help draft testimony on policy positions as well as analytical results as required relative to demand response programs.
- Track and evaluate federal, state, and local policies related to demand response programs.
- Support development of location based demand response, load management, and direct load control.
- Communicate with large customers as needed.
Support other areas of the company with advanced technical expertise (e.g. Strategic Planning, Asset Planning, Products & Services, Rates).
- Work with internal customers such as the trading floor, RTO compliance and FERC attorneys to provide analytical support for demand response program design and implementation
- Provide expertise to project teams and other areas within the company.
- Pro-actively seek opportunities to support internal and external customers
Required/Basic Qualifications
Note: This posting is for one open position. Dependent on relative experience, the level to which a candidate is aligned is outlined below.
Demand Response Analyst II (Demand Response Management & Retail Programs Analyst II)
- Bachelors degree
- In addition to required degree, one (1) year minimum of related work experience
- In lieu of bachelors degree AND one year minimum of related work experience listed above, high school/GED AND five (5) years minimum related work experience
Senior Demand Response Analyst (Senior Demand Response Management & Retail Programs Analyst)
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Market Research, Finance, Statistics, Business or Economics
- In addition to required degree, three (3) years minimum of related work experience
- In lieu of bachelors degree AND 3 years minimum of related work experience listed above, high school/GED AND seven (7) years minimum related work experience
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Siemens and EnergyHub Join Forces for Next Generation DER Management
Posted February 9, 2023
- Accelerated DER growth to challenge state-of-the-art grid management
- Open and modular approach will improve DER flexibility
- EnergyHub is a leading provider of grid-edge flexibility with nearly 1 million DERs under management
- Siemens brings extensive power grid expertise, global footprint to partnership
- Cooperation based on complementary portfolio elements, supports transition to distributed grid for net zero world
Siemens has partnered with EnergyHub to expand its ecosystem of partners for its grid software business. EnergyHub provides a top-tier grid-edge management solution, which combines its DERMS platform with turnkey program management to enable utilities to scale grid-edge flexibility. EnergyHub controls all classes of DERs including thermostats, electric vehicles, energy storage, and solar inverters. The company works with over 60 North American utilities to manage more than 1.3 GW of flexible capacity. Siemens is a leading provider of grid planning, operations and maintenance software and brings extensive power systems and grid control domain expertise to the partnership.
The companies will interface their complementary solutions to empower utilities to move towards a holistic and scalable end-to-end next generation DER management solution. This means utilities will have better DER visibility, forecasting, and management, which will enable them to better plan, operate and maintain an increasingly DER-centric grid in the future by breaking down silos across utilities.
“Utilities have to re-think how to manage power grids because DERs will continue to grow significantly over the next decade. Knowing about DER contributions to our power grids is very important to shift loads to periods when there is less stress on the grid. Siemens and EnergyHub will be strategically cooperating on complementary portfolio elements for a next generation DER management by combining Siemens’ network expertise with EnergyHub’s proven grid-edge capabilities. This partnership will enable utilities to reach net-zero by leveraging DERs as a non-wire alternative solution such as investments in hardware. Ultimately, this will enable utilities to unlock unprecedented levels of DER flexibility and resilience of the power grid,” said Sabine Erlinghagen, CEO of Grid Software at Siemens.
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