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Transforming EnergyThrough Science and Innovation

MEGA TRENDS

Mobility

Population Growth

Urbanization

Access to Affordable and Reliable Power for All

Costs for Renewable Technologies are Falling

Source: DOE Revolution Now (2016)

U.S. Power System Massive Transition

Source: EIA – Electric Power Annual

methylamine

NREL ScienceTransforming Energy

Messaging + Blue Infographic

Content

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Bioenergy

Vehicle Technologies

Hydrogen

Sustainable Transportation

Buildings

Advanced Manufacturing

Government Energy Management

Energy Efficiency

SolarWind Water

Geothermal

RenewablePower

Bioenergy

Vehicle Technologies

Hydrogen

Sustainable Transportation

Buildings

Advanced Manufacturing

Government Energy Management

Energy Efficiency

Grid Modernization

High-Performance Computing

Data and Visualizations

Energy SystemsIntegration

NREL Science Drives Innovation

Impact of Building Research Program• Doubling U. S. Energy productivity in the past four decades;• Making buildings more energy efficient, longer lasting and

in need of few retrofits;• Stimulating economic development, innovation and quality

of life improvements by optimizing the energy mix for all structures;

• Saving owners money, adding convenience, and increasing comfort.

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• Using advanced materials, such as perovskites and single-walled carbon nanotubes, that respond to heat by transforming from transparent to tinted;

• Converting sunlight to electricity, as windows darken, they generate electricity;

• Changing color is driven by molecules (methylamine) that are reversibly absorbed into the material, so that when the sun is not shining the material becomes transparent again;

• Enabling 68 percent of light in the visible portion of the solar spectrum to pass through transparent material.

Buildings Vision: Solar Windows

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NREL is advancing the science of home energy management systems to predict future energy consumption in homes, enabling highly accurate predictions of comfort needs, energy costs, environmental impacts, and grid service availability.

Smart Homes Made Smarter, Automatically

Buildings comprise

74% of the

total loadInfrastructure planning research

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Creating Autonomous Energy Systems

OptimizationNonlinear Control

Big Data Analytics

Complex Systems

Common Problems:• Real-time controls and optimization • Hundreds to millions of control points • Asynchronous data and communications• Multi-domain systems (complex) and stochastic systems (variable renewables, consumer/occupant behavior)

TransportationPower Grids

Wind Plants

Buildings

Applications

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A Partnership to Develop Zero Energy Communities. NREL is:• Helping create the planned net-zero and transit-oriented campus, Peña Station NEXT, near the Denver

International Airport in Colorado;

• Developing URBANopt software to analyze the projected dynamic energy consumption of corporate office space, retail space, multifamily dwellings, a hotel, parking, and street lighting within the planned development; and,

• Creating tools that can be applied across the country for utility business models. This project will also demonstrate the use of multiple distributed energy resources and create a proven model for smart city design.

ESIF High Impact Project: Panasonic & Xcel Energy

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A Cohesive Multi-Sector and Multi-Scale Modeling Framework for Decision Support• Create a common architecture, suite of software components, and data structures;

• Assure by design that this framework:

• Is highly scalable on current and future generation parallel supercomputers;

• Scales spatially and temporally to address the increasing number of energy market decision makers enabled by increased accessibility of data and tools.

Scalable Integrated Infrastructure Planning

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A Co-Simulation and Visualization Platform to Examine Cost and Resilience of Energy System Architectures:

• Evaluate system performance under cyber and physical attacks;• Quantify cost/resilience tradeoffs of alternate architectures; and,• Examine interdependencies between infrastructure types.

Interconnected Security & Resilience

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• Increasing resilience at U. S. Department of Defense (DoD) facilities; • Generating secure grid power during normal operations on DoD land with enhanced use

leases;• Working with DoD and NASA to develop advanced materials for energy production,

storage, and management; • Collaborating with the U. S. Department of Energy, Federal Energy Management Program

(FEMP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Resilience Projects with Longstanding Federal Partners

NREL: Transforming Energy for the Future