Frequency Regulation Services from Connected Residential Devices: Short Paper

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Abstract

This paper demonstrates potential benefits that residential buildings can provide for frequency regulation services in the electric power grid. In a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation, simulated homes and a physical laboratory home are coordinated via a grid aggregator, and it is shown that their aggregate response has the potential to follow the regulation signal on a timescale of seconds. Connected (communication-enabled) devices in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) received demand response (DR) requests from a grid aggregator, and the devices responded to meet the signal while satisfying comfort bounds and physical hardware limitations. Future research will address the issues of cybersecurity threats, participation rates, and reducing equipment wear-and-tear while providing grid services.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages119-122
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 16 Nov 2016
Event3rd ACM Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, BuildSys 2016 - Stanford, United States
Duration: 15 Nov 201617 Nov 2016

Conference

Conference3rd ACM Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments, BuildSys 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityStanford
Period15/11/1617/11/16

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5D00-66586 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5D00-67755

Keywords

  • Building-to-grid
  • Demand response
  • Frequency regulation
  • Model predictive control
  • Smart appliances

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