Savings from Observed and Modeled Residential Solar Storage Systems
This online engineering PDH course provides data from a new-construction residential community equipped with rooftop solar and storage (S+S) which is analyzed to determine the electricity cost savings that customers can realize by adopting demand-side resources.
Demand-side resources include rooftop solar photovoltaics, batteries, building energy management systems, energy efficiency investments, electric vehicles and other small-scale assets distributed widely over the grid. Demand-side resources can provide grid services by, for example, charging batteries at night and then discharging them during the day at times of peak demand, thus decreasing the magnitude of the peak demand that the grid must supply.
Maximizing the potential of demand-side resources involves incentivizing electricity customers to use those resources in ways that benefit the broader electric grid. These incentives depend largely on the electricity cost savings that customers can realize by adopting demand-side resources. Determining these potential cost savings is a complex task, which is presented in this course.
This 2 PDH online course is applicable to engineers who are interested in learning about the performance and modeling of residential solar and storage systems.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Familiarizing with customer scenarios definition for maximum usefulness
- Learning how to calculate customer bill savings
- Understanding how to compare real-life system performance with computer models
- Determining drivers of bill savings
- Gaining a general overview on how to account emissions costs
- Understanding how to estimate savings from optimal dispatch
- Understanding the relative effects of S+S adoption and rate changes on consumer choices
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the course document:
O’Shaughnessy, Eric, Dylan Cutler, Amanda Farthing, Emma Elgqvist, Jeff Maguire, Michael Blonsky, Xiangkun Li, et al. 2022. Savings in Action: Lessons from Observed and Modeled Residential Solar Plus Storage Systems. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-6A20-82103. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/82103.pdf.Upon successful completion of the quiz, print your Certificate of Completion instantly. (Note: if you are paying by check or money order, you will be able to print it after we receive your payment.) For your convenience, we will also email it to you. Please note that you can log in to your account at any time to access and print your Certificate of Completion.