“Building to Grid”: Enabling

Buildings to Trade Their Energy 11:00 am - 12 noon 

Toby Considine Systems Specialist,Facility Services, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

and his online blog The New Daedalus

Ken Sinclair, Editor/Owner Online Industry Magazine

www.AutomatedBuildings.com

“Building to Grid”: Enabling

Buildings to Trade Their Energy  • We and International Exposition, the producer of AHR

Expo 2008, welcome you to Chicago.

• It has been a stormy year of politics, economics and radical changes that cries for more change and reinvention of almost everything.

• Our buildings must be green while presenting a financial blue bottom line of sustainable connected real estate.

• Our existing stock of large buildings inNorth America, which uses 50% more energy than they should, presents a huge opportunity.

My name is Ken Sinclair, Editor/Owner This is Toby’s 2nd year and my 10th year doing these sessions.

Toby is a contributing editor and writes a monthly column for our online magazine www.AutomatedBuildings.com

Who are we and why are we here?

Toby Considine Systems Specialist, Facility Services, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

The vision of interactive buildings as full participants in the smart grid

Building-to-Grid (B2G) interactions will create whole new business models outside buildings.

Developing communication standards between building and grid will make the economic consequences of each operating decision visible.

These communications will be critical to the development of Net Zero Energy (NZE) buildings.

Economic service interactions will create new markets for building-based equipment and new models for building system integration.

B2G Events

Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 1:30 PM: B2G and Next Frontier for

BACnet

• Jack Mc Gowan President & CEO Energy Control Inc. moderator

• David Holmberg NIST Building & Fire Research Lab Building Environment Division, Mechanical Systems and Controls Group

• Ronald E. Jarnagin is a staff scientist and program manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Cloud Computing is a name for putting

computing services up in the wider network. • Traditional control systems have no clouds – only towers

in the sky • For buildings, only the core processes, those elements

on the traditional low voltage protocols such as BACnet and LON, are on the ground.

• Enterprise energy monitoring and building control, then, are in the low lying cumulus clouds. A well architected system does not put the EMCS center in the center of any control loops. TCP/IP is by design a non-deterministic protocol, meaning it does not belong inside a control loop. Anything off the ground is in the clouds. Anything in the clouds should interact using internet protocols.

Preparing Buildings for Trading Energy

Toby Considine

TC9, IncUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Toby.Considine @ gmail.com

Setting

Ken has already set the stage

PerspectivesInfrastructure Analyst, UNC Facilities Services- 20 years of facility operations support

- Architect of EBMS

Chair, OASIS oBIX Technical Committee

Co-Chair, OASIS Technical Advisory Board

FIATECH Element 5 Co-Champion “The Self Maintaining and Self Repairing Facility”

NIST Domain Expert Workgroup, Building to GridNIST Emergency Response Situation Awareness Workgroup

TC9 – product architecture and market alignment

– Emerging Markets and Venture Technical Analysis

Today, building operation is a cost to be minimized, not source

of income

Owners must manage risk before they will seek new revenue in energy trading

Learn standards-based interactions of autonomous

agents to manage risk and open new markets

Today’s energy markets are dysfunctional because buildings

aren’t full participants

Today's systems do things right rather than doing the right thing

Design for no complaints and using a fixed schedule

Most systems are designed in the field and discovered by the

owner

Code compliance merely limits your revenue

Half of all energy generated is wasted due to poor coordination

between buildings and grid

Wholesale power prices are regularly negative.

17% of generation capacity is used for less than 110

hours/year.

Power suppliers are will pay to make DR fulfillment a top

priority.

Process integration limits building response to grid.

We’ll operate efficiently when we get the signal

Building owners will limit risk of tenant dissatisfaction

Owners will avoid risks they cannot quantify.

New business models require autonomous agents using

enterprise standards.

Only agents can defend building systems from enterprise

programmers

Diversity and complexity are barriers to interoperability

Each building system must defend its mission.

Systems must offer up information of value

• Live burn rates

• IAQ

• Emergency Situation Awareness

Enterprise standards are quite different than control protocols

IPTCP

ASCII / Unicode

SMTP

IMAP / POP3

HTML

URIs

Security and Identity are part of every transaction

Enterprise protocols rely on discovery and abstraction

• WS-DD and WS-DP

• oBIX

Business interactions will replace process integration

• BACnet Load Control Object

• OpenADR

• WS-Calendar

Building systems will become aware of scarcity and value

Optimize systems for real time cost as well as for service

availability.

Intra-building markets can create self-managing load.

Building analytics can be cloud-hosted.

Micro-markets in energy will drive system adoption

Give leasing agents the language to sell service

performance

Target revenue generation rather than cost avoidance.

Energy suppliers will demand DR Fulfillment

Live prices will be used to set optimum schedules.

Net-Zero Energy buildings will have internal markets for energy

use

Greater system diversity requires simpler integration than

we use today.

Schedule results rather than processes.

The building agent will be your personal day trader in new

energy markets

Agile economic interactions will enable E-Tech

Healthy building indices will counter-balance of energy

efficiency

Distributed generation requires symmetrical interfaces

Shallow integrations allow rapid entry of new products.

Use enterprise techniques to enable B2G participation and

work in new markets

Discussion

For further information, contact me at:

Toby.Considine @ gmail.comwww.NewDaedalus.com