Continued progress toward the electrification of the built environment creates both a massive challenge and an opportunity for eliminating carbon emissions. The challenge of new loads from electrification on the utility system requires enhanced abilities for shifting, shedding, and modulating those loads to the mutual benefit of the building owner and serving utility. The effort to scale grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) is well underway. What are the risks to all parties in getting this wrong? This session brings together voices from the nation’s leading national laboratory on GEBs with building owners and service providers who are deploying GEBs strategies in commercial and institutional buildings across the country.
Moderator: David Logsdon, Seattle City Light
Panelists: Tanya Barham, Community Energy Labs; Courtney Blodgett, Edo; Rich Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Jingjing Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Scott Spielman, Ecotope
