Projects
In 2021, DOE selected a portfolio of "Connected Community" projects in varying climates, geographies, building types, and building vintages with varying uses of DER and other coordinate control technologies in a landscape of different utility, grid, or regulatory structures and resource bases.
FOA - Awarded Projects
DESIRED – Deep Efficiency and Smart Grid-Integrated Retrofits in Disadvantaged Communities
New York, NY
Seattle, WA
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
UDERMS iCommunity: Utility Managed Distributed Energy Resources Intelligent Community
Salt Lake City, UT
Rocky Mountain Power (Pacificorp)
Spokane Connected Communities Project
Spokane, WA
Edo Energy
Connecting Communities for Sustainable Solutions
Madison, WI
Slipstream Group, Inc.
SmartGrid Advanced Load Management & Optimized Neighborhood (SALMON)
Portland, OR
Portland General Electric
Gateway Cities Unplugged: (em)Powering Affordable Housing
Boston, MA
Open Market ESCO
OSU-ENGIE Connected Community: automated BUilding Control with Knowledge of distributed EnergY resources and Electrical Systems for Grid Offerings
Columbus, OH
Ohio State University (OSU)
Connected Residential Communities with Enhanced Resiliency and both Customer and Utility Attributes
Menifee, CA
SunPower Corporation
Advanced Clean Communities Collaborative (AC3)
Raleigh, NC
IBACOS, Inc.
Evaluating Transactive Energy for Rural America
Somewhere TBD in NH and ME
Post Road Foundation
DOE - Funded Projects
Automated Economic Dispatch for CCHP Systems or Central Plants
Utica, NY
Clean Energy and Transactive Campus (CETC)
Richland, WA and Toledo, OH
Georgia Power Smart Neighborhood™
Atlanta, GA (Upper West Side)
AI-Driven Smart Community Control for Accelerating PV Adoption and Enhancing Grid Resilience
Basalt, CO
Project name: Alabama Power Smart Neighborhood® (Reynolds Landing)
Suburban Birmingham, AL
Georgia Tech Flex
Atlanta, GA