Grid Interactive Buildings: Demand Response and Load Management
This online engineering PDH course provides a comprehensive introduction to grid-interactive buildings, emphasizing demand response, load management, and energy flexibility to enhance building efficiency and support a resilient, low-carbon grid.
This course highlights the importance of advanced building automation, smart controls, and distributed energy resources (DERs) in reducing peak demand, optimizing energy use, and integrating renewable energy sources.
This course covers the fundamentals of demand response and grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs), focusing on concepts like energy efficiency, load shedding, load shifting, and real-time modulation. It explores the roles of building automation systems (BAS), smart thermostats, and model predictive control (MPC) in optimizing energy consumption while maintaining occupant comfort. It also addresses grid services, HVAC load management, energy storage solutions, and bidirectional energy flow, illustrating how buildings can adapt to support grid stability.
This 3 PDH online course is applicable to engineers, energy managers, as well as other technical professionals looking to understand and implement grid-responsive building strategies.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Understanding grid-interactive buildings, including demand flexibility, load management, and the role of smart building technologies in energy efficiency and grid stability
- Learning key demand response strategies and grid services, including load shedding, load shifting, peak demand reduction, and real-time load modulation
- Familiarizing yourself with the integration of building automation systems (BAS), model predictive control (MPC), and distributed energy resources (DERs) within demand-side management programs
- Exploring emerging technologies like thermal energy storage, bidirectional energy flow, and advanced smart controls for optimizing HVAC, lighting, and plug loads
- Understanding the policy instruments such as demand response, incentives, time-of-use pricing, and dynamic energy tariffs, that promote energy flexibility and grid decarbonization
- Learning to evaluate the economic, operational, and technical challenges associated with implementing grid-interactive building strategies
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document titled, “Grid Interactive Buildings: Demand Response and Load Management”, which is based on the U.S. Department of Energy, Publication No. DOE/GO-102019-5230, “Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Technical Report Series”, dated December 2019.
Once you complete your course review, you need to take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of fifteen (15) questions to earn 3 PDH credits. The quiz will be based on the entire document.
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