Connected Residential Communities with Enhanced Resiliency and both Customer and Utility Attributes

Partners: KB Homes, University of California Irvine, Schneider Electric, and Southern California Edison
Planned Location of Buildings: Menifee, CA
Building types: 230+ new single-family homes
New or retrofit buildings: New residential construction
EE target: 38-57% (with shift from natural-gas end-uses like heating, hot water, cooking and drying to high-efficiency all-electric technology)
Total load: 1.0-1.2 MW peak demand for 2 communities representing 2.6 GWh electricity demand
DERs planned: rooftop PV (5-7kW each or 1.4MW total), community energy storage (CES) battery (1 MW/2 MWh), residential energy storage battery units (RESU) (6.8 kW /13 kWh per home), EV charging infrastructure (EVCI).
Flexible Loads: provision of 200-700kW of flexible loads in the form of heating ventilation and air conditioning, water heaters, EVs (including possible bidirectional flow), smart appliances (dishwashers, washer/dryer)
Grid issues addressed: variable renewable energy integration, resilience with coordinated islanding, & avoided capital investment at the grid (T&D)
Grid services planned: capacity relief from demand response, emergency load transfer capability, voltage and frequency regulation, as well as exploring possible participation in California ISO day-ahead real-time and ancillary service markets with DERs >500kW