To facilitate abundant, affordable, and reliable energy at scale, Berkeley Lab is working with the power, building, industry, and transportation sectors to advance a modernized grid.

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CalFlexHub

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The California Load Flexibility Research and Development Hub (CalFlexHub) is the innovation hub supporting the scaled adoption of affordable and reliable load flexible technologies.

FLEXLAB®

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FLEXLAB and FLEXGRID enable users to test and evaluate various flexible demand- and supply-side technologies and applications under real-world conditions.

Connected Communities

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Aiming to enable an economically sustainable, lower-carbon energy economy by creating an integrated energy system simulation capability and a validation testbed.

Integrated Distribution System Planning

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Integrated Distribution System Planning (IDSP) provides a systematic approach to satisfy customer service expectations and state and utility objectives for grid planning and design.

Smart Energy Analytics

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Uncovering deep energy and cost savings with energy management and information systems.

Stor4Build

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Stor4Build is a new consortium on energy storage for buildings that will accelerate the growth, optimization, and deployment of storage technologies.

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As a Senior Scientist her personal research interests include new building technologies, modeling, and analysis; commercial and residential building systems integration; grid interactive communications and integration with electric vehicles, energy storage, and photovoltaics.

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Granderson focuses on energy management and information systems (EMIS), fault diagnostics and control, and advanced measurement and verification.

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Pritoni conducts research in the area of advanced controls, data-driven modeling and data analytics applied to buildings. He leads a team of researchers working on optimization of building operation and building-to-grid interaction.

Berkeley Lab Helps Utilities Understand Power Outage Costs

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The Use of Price-based Demand Response as a Resource in Electricity System Planning

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National Laboratories Launch Buildings Consortium Leveraging Benefits of Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Storage for All Americans

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Energy Efficiency

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Manufacturing Innovation

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Transportation

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