The Excess Supply DR Pilot (XSP) is a PG&E Pilot focused on testing the capabilities of demandside resources to increase load as a service to the grid during the times of over‐generation on transmission and/or distribution lines as well as in the case of negative prices. Consistent with CPUC...

The Supply Side DR Pilot (SSP) was designed to study the feasibility of demand‐side resources to participate into the California Independent System Operator  (CAISO) wholesale market as proxy demand resources (PDR). The pilot study focused on understanding the issues related with direct...

Evaluates a smart water heater controller for energy efficiency in a controlled lab setting.  The product is a internet connected, learning controller that installs on existing gas/electric storage water heaters that meet specific manufacturer specifications.  The manufacturer also...

Between November, 2015, and October, 2016, PG&E used two vendors to provide approximately 65,000 small and medium business customers with monthly Business Energy Reports (BERs). An additional 25,000 customers were randomly assigned to control groups.  Report types included peer comparison...

The technology to be evaluated is an automated, smart, internet connected zone control system for residential HVAC. This first phase of a two phase project will complete lab tests to verify that the zone control system can regulate comfort while not degrading overall system efficiency, while also...

The main goal of this Project was to characterize the behavior of radiant heating and cooling systems in order to provide information for designers that would reduce both the cost and the perceived risk associated with radiant systems. The aim is to improve energy and comfort performance by...

Title 24, part 6 requires non-residential buildings be built and commissioned with several components of automated demand response infrastructure. There is a code compliance “industry” that has evolved as a result of past building commissioning requirements and the need to ensure that...

CAISO has telemetry requirements for Proxy Demand Resources (PDRs) that are greater than or equal to 10MW or provide ancillary services. The ability for Demand Response Providers (DRPs) to meet the telemetry requirements in a cost effective manner could unlock more DR to be bid into the wholesale...

High efficiency conveyor best-available technologies. The energy and water savings potential at 70% nominally versus conventional conveyor dishwashers installed in commercial kitchens is promising. The real-world savings per installation is actually greater as many older dishwashers are poorly...

The objective of this assessment was to conduct a field test to evaluate the performance of a sub-wet bulb evaporative chiller (SWEC) and to characterize the performance over the range of operating conditions experienced. The cooling capacity, power draw, system efficiency, total energy...