Resources

The resources complied hereunder are few of the early research papers and studies from across the globe on Grid Interactive Buildings. Our team aims to create a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed research papers, case studies, publications and conversations on this subject. Please reach out to us at nzeb@edsglobal.com to make a contribution to this effort.

Publications

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE) Integrating Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programs, 2019.
American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), State of the Market: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Utility Programs, 2019.
American Society of Civil Engineers, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Leveraging the Federal Building Stock to Support the Future Grid—A Case Study from Central Islip, New York, 2021.
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)-Position Document on Resiliency in the Built Environment, 2019.
Amir Roth, DOE, Whole-Building Controls, Sensors, Modeling, and Analytics – GEB Technical Report, 2019.
Andrew Satchwell, Peter Cappers, Jeff Deason, Sydney Forrester, Natalie Mims Frick, Brian F Gerke, Mary Ann Piette, A Conceptual Framework to Describe Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Interactions, 2020.
ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, November 2020.
Bill Goetzler, Matt Guernsey, Theo Kassuga,HVAC, Water Heating, Appliances and Refrigeration GEB Technical Report, 2019.
Chioke Harris, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Windows and Opaque Envelope – GEB Technical Report, 2019.
Darren Port, David Lis, Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Emerging Codes and Standards for Grid-Interactive Buildings, January 2021.
Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Making Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings a “Win” for Both Customers and Utilities, August 2022.
Global Information Infrastructure (GII), Building-to-Grid: Forecasts of Grid-Interactive Buildings Engaged in Demand Response, Solar Power Generation, and Battery Energy Storage, December 2022.
Hayden Reeve Sri Nikhil Gupta Gourisetti Penny McKenzie Michael Mylrea Paul Ehrlich Glenn Fink Draguna Vrabie, Challenges and Opportunities to Secure Buildings from Cyber Threats, March 2020.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Control Systems Letters ,Two-Level Decentralized-Centralized Control of Distributed Energy Resources in Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, December 2022.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power & Energy Society, Cyber Secure Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings to Enhance Power System Flexibility and Resilience, July 2022.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Sustainable Energy , Peak Power Minimization for Commercial Thermostatically Controlled Loads in Multi-Unit Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, January 2022.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), An Integrated Hybrid Thermal Dynamics Model and Energy Aware Optimization Framework for Grid-Interactive Residential Building Management, March 2023.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Economic Analysis of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: A Case Study in South China, November 2022.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Impact of Electricity Pricing Mechanisms on Grid-Interactive Buildings, October 2022.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Policy Search for Grid-Interactive Building Control, May 2022.
Journal of Building Engineering, System modeling for grid-interactive efficient building applications, June 2023.
Monica Neukomm, Valerie Nubbe, Robert Fares Overview of Research Challenges and Gaps – GEB Technical Report, 2019.
National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), Residential Grid-Interactive Efficient Building Technology and Policy, October 2019.
National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO),“Demand Flexibility and Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings 101”, August 2022.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Quantifying the Value of Grid- Interactive Efficient Buildings through Field Study, August 2022.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Blueprint for Integrating Grid- Interactive Efficient Building (GEB) Technologies into U.S General Services Administration Performance Contracts, May 2021.
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs) Tri-Region Status Report, January 2020.
Office of energy efficiency and renewable energy, US department of Energy ,A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, May 2021.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States Department Of Energy, Building Energy Codes and Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, October 2021.
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Cost-Effective Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings March 2022.
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Made Easy, June 2021.
Schneider Electric ,Integrating Smart Building Control Systems to Enable Grid-Interactive Buildings (GIB), March 2023.
Science Direct, “Real-world challenges for multi-agent reinforcement learning in grid-interactive buildings”, November 2022.
Science Direct, Learning-based demand response in grid-interactive buildings via Gaussian Processes,October 2022.
ScienceDirect, Applied Energy, Enhancing energy management in grid-interactive buildings: A comparison among cooperative and coordinated architectures, March 2022.
ScienceDirect, Distributed model predictive control for coordinated, grid-interactive buildings, April 2022.
Smart Electric Power Alliance, Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Practitioners’ Perspectives, July 2022.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Economic Benefits of a Novel Hvac Control Strategy in Grid-Interactive Residential Buildings, November 2022.
Springer Link, Transforming Campuses into Grid Interactive Buildings Using PEER Strategies, May 2022.
The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network, the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: An Introduction for State and Local Governments, April 2020.
The State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network, the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings, April 2020
U.S Department of Energy, A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, May 2021.
Valerie Nubbe, Mary Yamada, Lighting and Electronics GEB Technical Report, 2019.
Victor Olgyay, Seth Coan, Brett Webster,and William Livingood, Connected Communities: A Multi-Building Energy Management Approach, May 2020.

Online Resources

Active Efficiency, “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Are Active Efficiency”
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs)”
Berkley Lab, U.S. DOE, “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBs)”
Clark Pacific, “What are Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings, and Why do they Matter?”
RMI Organization “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEBS)”
Slip Stream “Grid interactive efficient Buildings”
Tennessee Valley Authority, “Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Implementation Guide”
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) “ Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings”
U.S Department of Energy “,The Energy Future is Smart: Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings”
U.S General Services Administration, “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings”

Videos

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), “Grid Interactive Efficient Built Environment” , 2020
Alliance to Save Energy ,”EE Global Webinar Series – Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings” , 2020
ASHRAE Video “Buildings Research: The Importance of Grid-Interactive Buildings”
Berkeley Lab , “Determining Utility System Value of Demand Flexibility From Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings”, 2020
Berkeley Lab, “Performance Assessments of Demand Flexibility from Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Issues and Considerations”, 2020
Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center , “Connecting Communities with Grid Interactive Buildings and Integrated Distributed Energy Resources“, June 2022
Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center, “Decarbonization with Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings“, June 2022
Building Efficiency for a Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) Center , “Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings and Automated Demand Response”, 2021
Building Energy Exchange, “NYSERDA’s Grid-Interactive Building Showcase”, May 2023
Energy Innovation Network ,“The Emerging Market of Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings”, May 2022
Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), “Efficient Buildings as Energy Grid Resources”, 2020
GSA Center for Emerging Building Technologies “2020 GSA/DOE RFI Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Webinar”
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power & Energy Society, “Benchmarking Demand Flexibility for Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (video)”, January 2023
International Energy Agency (IEA), “Webinar: Introduction to the US Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Program” , 2019
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Potential Impacts on Regional Utility Loads”, June 2020
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), “Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings Reinforcing the Grid with DERs”, February 2023
National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), “Benefit-Cost Analysis for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings & Other Distributed Energy Resources”, May 2021
ORNL Supplementary Videos “The Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) Challenge”
Smart Buildings Centre , ”Building Electrification & Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings, Part 1”, Feb 2022
Smart Buildings Centre , “Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings”, August 2022
USAID (The United States Agency for International Development) India “Smart Grid – Towards An Intelligent Future”
US Department of Energy (DOE) “A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings”, June 2021
US Department of Energy , “Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings: The Potential for Cost-Effective Decarbonization ” , March 2022

Tools

New Buildings Institute,“Grid Optimal Measure Impact Analysis Tool”, February 2022
Smart Grid Interactive tool The Joint Research Center has developed an interactive dissemination tool to explain to the general public what a smart grid is and what the expected challenges and benefits of achieving a smart grid are. Tool .

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