CalFlexHub Innovators

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CalFlexHub is a proving ground for affordable and reliable load flexible technologies. CalFlexHub Innovators are developing and deploying cost-effective scalable load flexibility technologies that provide regular load shaping from dynamic price and greenhouse gas signals.

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Residential Thermal Battery System for Combined Heat Pump Heating and Hot Water

Harvest Thermal | Berkeley Lab

Optimizing Home Heating and Hot Water with Dynamic Price Response

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Battery Energy Storage and EV Charging

Demonstrate the ability of an EV fleet to collectively follow a CalFlexHub price/ GHG signal, first independently and then jointly with the support of a battery energy storage system.

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Integrated Heat Pump and Hot and Cold Storage for Commercial HVAC

Berkeley Lab | Aermec | Sunamp

Developing a prototype packaged HVAC unit including an air-to-water heat pump and a compact heating and cooling thermal energy storage to enable load shift and improved comfort.

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Shifting Loads with Heat Pump Water Heaters in Commercial Buildings

SkyCentrics | Willdan

Demonstrating using cloud-based platforms to shift load with heat pump water heaters in response to price and GHG signals while maintaining customer satisfaction.

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Residential Flexible Pool Pump Controls

SkyCentrics | Pentair Aquatic System

Demonstrating the ability to shift load by varying pool pump speed in response to price and GHG signals while ensuring daily flow volume.

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Residential Smart Thermostat Price Response (Ecobee)

Olivine | ecobee

Demonstrating the ability of smart thermostats to respond to price signals and adjust temperature setpoints based on user preferences.

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Home Energy Management System Respond to Dynamic Price (Honda)

UC Davis | Honda (American Honda Motor Co.)

Demonstrating the ability of HEMS reading dynamic electricity prices and charge/discharge battery accordingly.

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Integrated Heat Pump for Residential HVAC and DHW with Hot Water Storage (Villara)

Villara Building System | UC Davis – Western Cooling Efficiency Center

Demonstrating the load flexibility of an integrated heat pump providing both domestic water heating and space heating & conditioning.

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Dynamic Price Response through Energy Management Systems for Commercial Buildings (Extensible Energy)

Extensible Energy | UC Davis – California Lighting Technology Center

Demonstrating cloud-based dynamic energy management of commercial building HVAC load.

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Managing Flexible Loads with Home Energy Management Systems to Maximize Electrical Panel Capacity

Developing a prototype smart panel to control flexible loads under panel capacity as a cost-effective solution to enable electric heating and cooking while avoiding the prohibitive cost of panel and service upgrades.

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Campus-scale Thermal Storage for Load Shift Using Predictive Controls

Developing model predictive control for a district cooling system with thermal energy storage to optimally respond to dynamic electricity prices.

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Large Commercial Building Dynamic HVAC Predictive Controls

Testing model predictive controls for cooling and heating in a large commercial office building in response to dynamic electricity prices.

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Small Commercial Heat Pump for HVAC with Optimized Controls

Optimizing stand-alone packaged heat pump operation for commercial buildings considering dynamic electricity prices.

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Residential Heat Pump for HVAC and DHW with Predictive Controls

Rheem | UC Davis – Western Cooling Efficiency Center

Using model predictive controls to optimize heat pump operation for cost and comfort in multi-family buildings considering dynamic electricity prices.

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CoolFIT: Residential Smart Fan with Integrated Thermostat

UC Berkeley | Big Ass Fans

Maintaining thermal comfort while lowering energy use and demand via smart ceiling fans integrated with thermostat and HVAC systems.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is a Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored Office of Science laboratory and a lead with the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Buildings Technology Office (BTO), providing state, national, and global leadership in the development of interoperable and load flexible technologies, including grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEB) and Connected Communities.

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CalFlexHub is made possible by the California Energy Commission and funded through the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Program.

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