Commercial Building Control Systems and Energy Management

Sustainable Futures Speaker Series April 13, 2017: Mary Ann Piette, Director of the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab *** This presentation shares research on controlling energy use in commercial buildings and discusses new opportunities in model predictive control. Projects discussed include Energy Management and Information Systems, a model-based energy advisor and fault detection system at the US Naval Academy, and US-China collaborative research on model predictive control. Also discussed are practical opportunities for energy management on university campuses. Mary Ann Piette is the Director of the Building Technology and Urban Systems Division and has been at LBNL since 1983. She is also the Director of the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC). The DRRC develops DR technology and the Open Automated Demand Response standard, which is a key element of the NIST Smart Grid standards. OpenADR is being deployed to deliver over 250 MW of DR in California and throughout the US. Ms. Piette develops and evaluates low-energy and demand response technologies for buildings. She specializes in commissioning, energy information systems, benchmarking, and diagnostics. She has authored over 100 papers on efficiency and demand response. *** The Sustainable Futures Speaker Series is sponsored by the Schatz Energy Research Center, the Environment & Community graduate program, and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Humboldt State University. More info at http://www.schatzcenter.org/speakers