Gateway Cities Unplugged: (em)Powering Affordable Housing

Partners: Fraunhofer USA, Inc.
Planned location of buildings: Boston, MA
Building types: Up to 6 mixed-income apartment communities representing approximately 1,000 multi-family homes.
New or retrofit buildings: Retrofit
EE target: 30% reduction
Total load: N/A
DERs planned: Rooftop PV, battery storage systems, EV charging stations, and connected loads in both apartments and common areas with a goal of deploying 500 kW of peak load flexibility
Flexible loads: The project will consider, evaluate, and deploy GEB packages and is expected to include connected, smart thermostats, plug-load controls for air conditioning and water heating, HVAC system components such as rooftop units, variable frequency drives and pumps, as well as lighting and EV charging systems.
Grid services planned: The grid services that this project will target include demand capacity at the ISO-NE level through the forward capacity market, distribution level demand response, and peak load shaving.