Limiting building electrical demand is crucial to reducing peak electrical grid demand. Conventional methods often use brute-force techniques to shutdown important building environmental support equipment. But there's a better way - especially when combined with on-site generation and buildings clustered together to share the demand reduction work load.
This paper was presented at COBEE, The First International Conference on Energy and Environment, at Dalian China, July 13-16, 2008. The conference was organized by Purdue University, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Tianjin University and Dalian Technical University of China. (See the call for papers announcement.)
This paper provides another view of how to combine buildings into a unified demand reduction group and leverage on-site generators to optimally reduce grid electrical demand. It uses the results from analyzing commercial office and high school buildings in the Cincinnati area. It answers the question "Can an effective Demand Response program be developed that minimizes interior building environmental impact while leveraging on-site generators?" The answer is "yes". Find out why. Read more.
