Solar + storage modeling at various scales

We model solar PV + battery storage at various scales (a cool room, a community center, and a community microgrid)  
 

Cool Rooms for existing housing

Cool Rooms for existing housing

  • We modeled a cool room (or a designated area of a home that can provide failsafe cooling during a heat wave) for typical single family homes in the Fruitvale District, Oakland, CA.
  • We quantified the benefits to indoor comfort, and occupant health/safety from the following sets of measures:
    • Passive cooling measures only during a worst-case (WC) heat wave and concurrent power outage
    • Passive + active cooling measures e.g. battery-operated fan, solar PV + room air conditioner (AC) during a WC heat wave and concurrent power outage
    • Adding passive cooling measures and a room AC to homes without AC during a heat wave and with available power
       

Microgrid modeling at a community park in East Oakland, CA

  • We use LBNL’s Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER- CAM) tool to model a community microgrid in East Oakland, CA
  • The DER-CAM model is applied to select an optimized portfolio of DER (PV and storage) and operational patterns (battery charging/discharging, electricity import/export)
  • Microgrid design goals are to provide resilience for 48-hour summer outage events and reduce electricity costs during regular operation
  • Results are compiled for full 3 building system microgrid as well as individual buildings