Meeting Customer and Supply-side Market Needs with Electrical and Thermal Storage, Solar, Energy Efficiency and Integrated Load Management Systems (EPC-15-074).
Increasing amounts of distributed energy resources (DERs), such as solar, wind and energy storage, present opportunities to optimize and balance California's electricity grid through demand response participation in wholesale energy markets. CSE has teamed up with industry partners to test the ability of DERs to cost-effectively accomplish their main purpose of meeting on-site electricity needs while providing services to the grid.
This project, funded by the California Energy Commission, will configure and test two DER portfolios. The first portfolio consists of five schools within the Chino Valley Unified School District equipped with solar and energy storage. The second portfolio consists of two Hilton hotels (Garden Inn San Diego Old Town and Mission Valley) integrated with advanced energy efficiency sensors and controls. The demonstration will provide results that will allow stakeholders to better understand the technical, institutional and regulatory barriers to facilitating DER participation in supply-side markets.
