As part of our Sidewalk Talk Idea Tour on Energy Efficient Neighborhoods (12/13/17), Mary Ann Piette, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, focused on an important branch of research currently underway at her lab: energy modeling at building, zone, and district levels. These computational models, created at the design phase of a building, can control building operations as well as grid and renewable integration, allowing for unprecedented system optimization.
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