PFI:BIC - Energy Smart Community - Leveraging Virtual Storage to Turn Advanced Metering Infrastructure into a Smart Service System

PFI：BIC - 能源智能社区 - 利用虚拟存储将先进的计量基础设施转变为智能服务系统

基本信息

批准号：
1632124
负责人：
Edwin Cowen
金额：
$ 100万
依托单位：
Cornell University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632124&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
PFI BIC Energy Smart Community

项目摘要

Smart meters, which measure electricity use in near real-time, have been installed in more than 40% of homes in the United States, yet the promises of smaller electric bills, reduced electric generation capacity, greenhouse gas reductions, and a more energy-engaged society, have yet to materialize. This Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) project seeks to enable a next generation residential energy market that will reduce consumers' costs, increase the flexibility of the electric grid to integrate renewable energy of all types and sizes -- roof top solar to large scale wind farms -- while increasing the robustness of electricity delivery. This project will test whether adding rechargeable batteries (electric storage) to individual smart meters will turn these potential benefits into reality. This research leverages a new Energy Smart Community (ESC), comprised of 12,000 smart meters and a wireless data network in the Ithaca NY area deployed in response to New York State?s Reforming the Energy Vision strategy. The network of 12 thousand homes equipped with smart meters will become the test bed for this project. Researchers, working with the primary partners, will actively engage residential customers in the design of the smart service system and involve consumers in the testing and optimization of the virtual storage systems. A smart service system will control when the battery charges (purchases electricity from the grid) and when it discharges (avoiding purchasing electricity from the grid) allowing the thus far unrealized savings for consumers, while creating potential new business opportunities and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The resulting smart service system will be highly marketable and readily transferable to other communities and utilities throughout the United States and the world. This project is an integrated collaboration that is uncommon for universities. It engages a regulated utility, for-profit corporations, venture investors, residential community members and government agencies with a shared intent to bring solutions to the market at scale. This team will develop the smart service system infrastructure that will allow the retail energy market considered crucial to 21st century power distribution, to emerge. A signature of this project is the use of computer models to simulate residential batteries, which may be either stand-alone or contained within an electric vehicle, allowing researchers to test situations where most residential homes have a battery without the cost or challenges of purchasing and installing them. A small number of homes will be outfitted with real batteries to ensure the computer models accurately capture how real batteries function. Five cross-disciplinary and cross-organizational tasks will leverage the team's skill sets: (1) Develop and test a unique experimental economics platform that will guide the design of market mechanisms that focus on customer-based distributed storage and generation capacity in electricity distribution systems, (2) Design, implement, and test a fully instrumented, control and communication capable, prototype smart service system at the individual residence level, (3) Develop virtual storage simulation modeling tools to integrate into the ESC advanced metering infrastructure (smart meters) to enable the efficient testing of different time-varying rate scenarios at low cost, (4) Design, implement, and analyze cross-disciplinary survey and focus group efforts to understand, engage, and collect feedback from the consumer, and (5) Carry out customer choice and consumer incentivization research.The lead institution is Cornell University with its units the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Communications, Natural Resources, Applied Economics and Management, and Information Science (academic non-profit). Primary Partners are: AVANGRID, Inc. (New Haven CT, large business), BMW North America (Woodcliff Lake NJ, large business), SolarCity (San Mateo CA, large business) and Cornell Cooperative Extension -Tompkins County (Ithaca NY, non-profit). Distributed Sun (Washington DC, small business) is a broader-context partner.

智能电表已在美国的40％以上的房屋中安装了智能电表，但较小的电费，降低的电力发电能力，减少温室气体的承诺和能源更大 - 敬业的社会，尚未实现。这种创新合作伙伴关系：建筑创新能力（PFI：BIC）项目旨在启用下一代住宅能源市场，以降低消费者的成本，提高电网的灵活性，以整合各种类型和尺寸的可再生能源 - 屋顶顶部 - 屋顶顶部 - 太阳能到大型风电场 - 同时增加了电力的稳健性。该项目将测试是否将可充电电池（电气存储）添加到单个智能电表中是否会将这些潜在的好处转化为现实。这项研究利用了一个新的能源智能社区（ESC），该社区由12,000个智能电表和一个无线数据网络组成，该网络是针对响应纽约州改革能源愿景策略而部署的。配备智能电表的12000套房屋的网络将成为该项目的测试床。与主要合作伙伴合作的研究人员将积极吸引住宅客户的智能服务系统设计，并让消费者参与虚拟存储系统的测试和优化。智能服务系统将控制电池电量何时（从网格中购买电力），以及何时排放电池（避免从网格中购买电力），从而使消费者迄今未实现的储蓄，同时创造潜在的新商机并减少温室气体的发电。由此产生的智能服务系统将是高度销售的，并且很容易转移到美国和全世界的其他社区和公用事业。该项目是一项综合协作，对于大学来说并不常见。它与受监管的公用事业，营利性公司，风险投资者，住宅社区成员和政府机构一起参与，他们共同打算将解决方案大规模推向市场。该团队将开发智能服务系统基础设施，该基础设施将使零售能源市场认为对21世纪的发电机发电至关重要。该项目的一个签名是使用计算机模型来模拟住宅电池，该电池可能是独立的或包含在电动汽车中的，使研究人员可以测试大多数住宅都有电池电池的情况，而没有购买和购买和购买和挑战的挑战安装它们。少数房屋将配备真实电池，以确保计算机型号准确捕获真实电池的功能。五个跨学科和跨组织任务将利用团队的技能集：（1）开发和测试一个独特的实验经济学平台，该平台将指导市场机制的设计，这些平台侧重于电力分配系统中的基于客户的分布式存储和发电能力，（2）在单个居住层的设计，实施和测试具有完整的仪器，控制和通信的智能服务系统，（3）开发虚拟存储模拟建模工具，以集成到ESC高级计量基础架构（智能计量机）中为了以低成本进行有效测试不同的时变费率方案，（4）设计，实施和分析跨学科调查和重点小组的努力，以了解，参与和收集消费者的反馈，以及（5）携带淘汰客户的选择和消费者激励研究。领先的机构是康奈尔大学，其单位是阿特金森的单位，是可持续的未来，民用与环境工程，电气和计算机工程，通信，自然资源，应用经济学和管理以及信息科学（学术学术科学）非营利）。主要合作伙伴是：Avangrid，Inc。（New Haven CT，大型企业），BMW北美（NJ Woodcliff Lake，大型企业），Solarcity（San Mateo CA，大型企业）和Cornell Cooperative Extension -Tompkins -Tompkins County（Ithaca NY，NON，NON，NON，NON，NON， -利润）。分布式Sun（华盛顿特区，小型企业）是更广泛的秘密合作伙伴。