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Quantifiable, viable pathways on how to use buildings for grid flexibility to help meet decarbonization and/or electrification goals.
Engagement with communities to support decarbonization goals equitably by providing safe, reliable, and resilient shelter, enhanced comfort and wellness, and affordable costs and conveniences.
Risks, costs, and time associated with the implementation of electrification programs.
Building codes, performance standards, and code preparedness, with improved readiness for net-zero energy and decarbonized buildings and communities.
Feasibility and implementation of deep efficiency, fuel switching, building flexibility, integration of distributed generation and storage, and grid integration.
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EPRI is advancing safe, reliable, affordable, and clean energy for society through global collaboration, science and technology innovation, and applied research. The Advanced Buildings and Communities program (P204) at EPRI provides fundamental approaches and practical tools for designing, developing, deploying, integrating, and scaling residential and commercial buildings to support safe, reliable, affordable, and decarbonized buildings and communities in an equitable manner. The Advanced Buildings and Communities Program seeks to address building electrification and decarbonization challenges by examining and delivering pathways and action plans to enable the transformation of the building ecosystem equitably through applied research, building modeling, demonstration projects, and informing codes, standards, and policy.
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Building connectivity is when digitally enabled buildings can support the comfort and safety by using monitoring solutions, automation, and AI (artificial intelligence).
Connectivity
Socioeconomic outcomes that arise from energy efficient design features in buildings, aside from the energy savings, such as improved health, wellness, and comfort, air quality, and resilience.
Non-Energy Benefits
Refers to practices and strategies that help buildings and communities withstand man-made and natural disasters, adapt to the events, and maintain building functionality before, during, and after the event occurs.
Resilience
Building electrification is when building fossil fuels and the technologies that use fossil fuels are replaced with zero-emissions electricity.
Electrification
Refers to how efficiently a building consumes energy and resources and offers an environment with minimum energy consumption and wastage of energy.
Energy Efficiency
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The buildings ecosystem, which is considered the built environment and its intersection with the people that live or work within it, their various technologies and appliances, and the electric grid makes up more than 35% of the U.S. carbon emissions. Research surrounding buildings and communities can provide insights into the feasibility and scalability for decarbonization of the building sector as the U.S. transitions to net-zero emissions.
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Decarbonization
Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in buildings.
EPRI Building Research Accomplishments
Developed and deployed the first production build Net-Zero Community and one of the first Connected Communities. Established a computational framework to quantify the value of demand-side flexibility in high-performance smart neighborhood communities.
Successfully implemented novel solutions to address challenges in electrifying existing multifamily buildings.
Demonstrated pathways to affordable decarbonization in low-income multifamily housing through a combination of envelope, electrification of end-uses, and on-site solar PV.
Collaboration with partners to the development of decarbonization roadmaps and strategies through efficiency, electrification, and renewables for new and existing building stock.
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Net-Zero
the complete removal of greenhouse gas emissions produced by buildings where the building generates as much energy onsite as it consumes over the entire course of the year.
Sustainability
Refers to the integration of energy efficient technologies, sustainable building materials, and building envelope features. Other topics relevant to sustainability include energy consumption patterns, barriers to scalability, and grid integration.
Equity and Affordability
Refers to ensuring building decarbonization is equitable, affordable, and does not increase energy burden.
Network of distributed energy resources that work together as one powerplant. VPPs can use grid networks to tailor supply and demand for customers by using devices that store, generate, and shift electricity.
Virtual Power Plants
Building that uses energy-efficient resources such as connected end-use equipment and/or onsite DERs to co-optimize energy cost, grid services, and occupant needs in an integrated way.
Grid-Interactive Buildings
Communities that leverage networks of connected technologies to provide more efficient, innovative, and sustainable infrastructure.
Connected Communities
Creation of meaningful relationships and education for customers on building electrification/decarbonization– ultimately allowing for the design of equitable strategies.
Customer Engagement, Education, and Adoption
A set of rules and standards for the design, construction, alteration, materials, maintenance, and performance of buildings.
Building Codes, Standards, Programs, and Policies
Data is critical in determining the effectiveness and success of different decarbonization measures.
Building Performance Data
The buildings ecosystem, which is considered the built environment and its intersection with the people that live or work within it, their various technologies and appliances, and the electric grid makes up more than 35% of the U.S. carbon emissions. Research surrounding buildings and communities can provide insights into the feasibility and scalability for decarbonization of the building sector as the U.S. transitions to net-zero emissions.
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Environmental Justice
Fair treatment and meaningful involment reguarding environmental impacts and access to environmental benefits.
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