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on state climate policy.

  • Intros (5 min)
  • Context: NREL's CAIRO plans (10 min)
  • Context: SB's HP rates work (10 min)
  • Context: SB's tools ecosystem (10 min)
  • Collaboration goals (5 min)
  • Critical path (20 min)

AGENDA

Intros (5 min)

Context: NREL's CAIRO plans (10 min)

Context: SB's
HP Rates work

(10 min)

2. If we fix this, heat pumps become cheaper than gas.

1. We're overcharging heat pumps for the grid,   to subsidize everyone else.

3. Without costing anyone anything.

Analytical needs

  • Rigorously measure cross-subsidization, design seasonal rate to fix
  • Bill impacts and cross-subsidy as HP installs proceed
    -> rate adjustment
  • Design cost-reflected seasonal TOU rate
  • Capture demand response effect of TOU on HP ops
    (eventually with OCHRE)
  • Energy and capacity deferral benefits of said demand response

Context: SB's
tool ecosystem

(10 min)

buildstock-fetch

  • Make it easier to download ResStock metadata/loads
  • Aggregate loads without using Athena
docs

buildstock-read

  • Read BSF parquet downloads into polars.LazyFrame

ochre

  • Use OCHRE to simulate devices not in EULP: thermal storage, vehicle2home backup for heat pumps, etc.
  • BSF makes it easier to download ResStock hpxml/schedules/weather
  • Use OCHRE to simulate automated (and eventually behavioral) response to time-varying tariffs

tariff-fetch

  • Make it easy to download tariff data: electric & gas, delivery & supply
  • Outputs in standardized URDB format
docs
  • Data providers: Arcadia, RateAcuity, URDB

buildstock-data

  • Accurate, nation-wide assignment of bldgs to utility-zone
  • Publish for all releases via BSF

utility_rates

  • Jupyter widget for designing rates in URDB format
  • Future usage in CAIRO?
docs
  • Calculate bills from URDB tariffs + RS loads
  • Common plots

GenX

  • Capacity expansion model of NY, CLCPA-compliant scenario
  • Generate own marginal costs as electrification adoption proceeds
  • Capture energy and capacity benefits of time-varying rates

Collaboration

Goals

SB's Goals

  • Help improve CAIRO, build OSS community
  • Nation-wide and utility-level use cases
  • Support HP rate reform modeling, without impacting NREL
  • Integrate with other tools, without coupling CAIRO
  • Avoid being blocked in the short-term

Critical Path

LINK TO GH ISSUE

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mail       jpv@switch.box

 

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