Generating Diverse Building Decarbonization Pathways
Building decarbonization has along with it a myriad of other benefit such as improved comfort, regional economic growth, improvements in local air quality, health benefits for the occupants and local neighborhoods, lower operating costs, increased resilience to power outages, and if implemented well, benefits to social equity and energy justice.
Incorporating HVAC Energy Flexibility into Black Start Community Microgrids
The Smart Energy Storage Integration and Management Platform for Buildings (SESIMP-B) project led by GridScape Solutions with Pacific Northwestern National Labs (PNNL) and Columbia as Co-Investigators,aims to develop, test, and validate an innovative platform that enables easier integration and optimal management of building BESS, facilitating the widespread adoption of BESS for buildings.
Reinforcement Learning for HVAC system control
Reinforcement learning has the ability to generate operational set points to deliver energy efficient, energy flexible and resilient buildings due to the methods ability to easily incorporate nonlinear behavior and learn from measured data. However, this methods large scale deployment is hindered by the long training times needed to deliver operational savings and the lack evidence of performance in non simulated environments.