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At the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the nation’s foremost institute for researching advanced energy solutions, experiments don’t just occur in labs and test facilities.
Following an executive order to decarbonize federal buildings by 2045, NREL’s four campuses are implementing carbon-pollution-free strategies that reduce demand from the grid by enabling fast, secure, and interactive distributed energy resources like on-site solar installations, battery storage, hydrogen fuel cells, electrified heating systems, and electric vehicle (EV) charger infrastructure.
To measure the impacts of these integrated solutions, Intelligent Campus program manager Michelle Slovensky and her team built a digital twin platform called PRISM that monitors and analyzes energy use throughout NREL’s facilities and infrastructure systems. Within PRISM, a geographic information system (GIS) captures data in dashboards and maps, highlighting energy production and consumption trends across campuses.
The result: a living blueprint for planning and building a net-zero campus that contains lessons for private enterprises pursuing the same goal.
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