The study assessed the potential to leverage Electric Vehicle (EV) Automated Demand Response (ADR) charging technologies through the Demand Response Emerging Technology Program (DRET) from 2020–2021. It analyzed interval data from 71,000 EV customers in PG&E’s service territory to...

SCE provided a Letter of Commitment (LOC) in support of LBNL’s proposal titled “A framework to characterize the performance of building components in providing flexible loads and building services using a hardware-in-the-loop approach” in response to the DOE’s BENEFIT FOA 0002090 solicitation,...

Southern California Edison (SCE) provided a Letter of Commitment in support of LBNL’s proposal for the EPIC GFO 19-301 Group 4 EPIC solicitation, intending to cost share $300,000 ($150k / $150k from ET/DR). The project will develop and demonstrate an open-source energy and load management system...

Southern California Edison (SCE) provided a Letter of Commitment in support of LBNL’s proposal for the EPIC GFO 19-301 Group 4 EPIC solicitation. The project will develop and demonstrate an open-source energy and load management system designed to control advanced heat pumps on small/medium...

The goal of this project is to assess the energy and demand savings resulting from a solar assisted direct expansion (DX) system.  A field test was conducted in a 1,600 sq. ft. single-story residential home located within SDG&E territory. In this test, an emerging technology that consists...

SUMMARYThe goal of this Emerging Technologies study was to determine the load shifting potential of salt-water ice thermal energy storage systems installed as a retrofit on an existing grocery store refrigeration system.This report presents findings from the field test of a new refrigeration ice...

CEC EPIC GFO-19-307 Mobile homes are lagging in terms of energy efficiency requirements with associated high energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Mobile homes are disproportionately located in disadvantaged and low-income communities, and residents face outsized energy bills and...

The emerging technology is a National Sanitation Foundation (NSF) certified food product simulating sensor medium that changes the existing ‘air-temp’ thermostat into a ‘food-temp’ thermostat in a refrigeration unit. By enclosing the existing temperature sensor in a...

This study compared the effectiveness of remote HVAC monitoring with FDD to the traditional residential quality maintenance baseline. The emerging technology is an add-on unit and works on most residential HVAC systems, tracking the performance of an HVAC system real-time through 10 sensors...

The proposed technology is a residential/ small commercial heat pump (~3-5 tons capacity) that cascades a thermoelectric (TE) heat pump with a conventional air-source heat pump. This heat pump will (a) Boost capacity and COP at colder outside air temperatures, (b) Reduce peak demand by eliminating...