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Dataset demonstrating the potential benefits that residential buildings can provide for frequency regulation services in the electric power grid. In a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation, simulated homes along with a physical laboratory home are coordinated via a grid aggregator, and it is shown that their aggregate response has the potential to follow the regulation signal on a timescale of seconds. Connected (communication-enabled), devices in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) received demand response (DR) requests from a grid aggregator, and the devices responded accordingly to meet the signal while satisfying user comfort bounds and physical hardware limitations.

This database was populated from the demo-run of VOLTTRON in ESIF, using the historian agent. https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/wiki/SQL-Historian Format: List of topics and their units. Attribute Unit datalogger/log/dac/EV_AC Watts datalogger/log/dac/evse Watts datalogger/log/dac/house Watts datalogger/log/dac/hpwh Watts datalogger/log/dac/hvac Watts datalogger/log/dac/light Watts datalogger/log/dac/poolpump Watts datalogger/log/evse_relay_set/max_charge_rate_set Watts datalogger/log/evse_relay_set/mode_set_CEA2045 string datalogger/log/evse_relay_state/max_charge_rate Watts datalogger/log/evse_relay_state/mode_CEA2045 String datalogger/log/frequency_regulation/frequency_regulation float datalogger/log/hpwh_relay_set/control_signals_API String datalogger/log/hpwh_relay_state_mode/hpwh_mode_API String datalogger/log/hpwh_relay_state/hpwh_temp_bottom F datalogger/log/hpwh_relay_state/hpwh_temp_top F datalogger/log/hvac_relay_setpoint_set/setpoint F datalogger/log/hvac_relay_state/air_temp F datalogger/log/hvac_relay_state/hvac_mode integer datalogger/log/hvac_relay_state/setpoint F datalogger/log/light_relay_mode_set/light_selector_set integer datalogger/log/light_relay_setpoint_set/light_intensity_set integer datalogger/log/light_relay_state/IntensityA integer datalogger/log/light_relay_state/IntensityB integer datalogger/log/light_relay_state/light_selector_mode integer datalogger/log/poolpump_relay_set/max_charge_rate_set Watts datalogger/log/poolpump_relay_set/mode_set integer datalogger/log/poolpump_relay_state/max_power Watts datalogger/log/poolpump_relay_state/mode_CEA2045 string datalogger/log/sc_house/provided_EV Watts datalogger/log/sc_house/provided_house Watts datalogger/log/sc_house/provided_HVAC Watts datalogger/log/sc_house/requested Watts datalogger/log/simulation/total_reg_provided Watts datalogger/log/simulation/total_reg_requested Watts All timestamps are strings of the form "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" All topics containing 'zz_simulation' are the power consumption of the simulated appliances in Watts. The Topics table contains a list of availabe topics on the volttron message bus. (topic_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, topic_name TEXT NOT NULL, UNIQUE(topic_name)) The data table is a timeseries database of the topics from the topics table mapped by topic_id. (ts timestamp NOT NULL, topic_id INTEGER NOT NULL, value_string TEXT NOT NULL, UNIQUE(ts, topic_id))

This database was populated from the demo-run of VOLTTRON in ESIF, using the historian agent. https://github.com/VOLTTRON/volttron/wiki/SQL-Historian Format: L... more

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TY  - DATA
AB  - Dataset demonstrating the potential benefits that residential buildings can provide for frequency regulation services in the electric power grid. In a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation, simulated homes along with a physical laboratory home are coordinated via a grid aggregator, and it is shown that their aggregate response has the potential to follow the regulation signal on a timescale of seconds. Connected (communication-enabled), devices in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) received demand response (DR) requests from a grid aggregator, and the devices responded accordingly to meet the signal while satisfying user comfort bounds and physical hardware limitations.
AU  - Baker, Kyri
A2  - Jin, Xin
A3  - Vaidhynathan, Deepthi
A4  - Jones, Wesley
A5  - Christensen, Dane
A6  - Sparn, Bethany
A7  - Woods, Jason
A8  - Sorensen, Harry
A9  - Lunacek, Monte
DB  - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP  - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO  - 
KW  - frequency regulation
KW  - building-to-grid
KW  - home energy management
KW  - volttron
KW  - aggregator
KW  - connected appliances
KW  - Energy Systems Integration Facility
KW  - ESIF
KW  - Golden
KW  - colorado
KW  - electricity
KW  - power grid
KW  - residential buildings
LA  - English
DA  - 2016/06/21
PY  - 2016
PB  - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1  - Grid Connected Functionality
UR  - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8155
ER  -

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Baker, Kyri, et al. Grid Connected Functionality. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 21 June, 2016, NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/49.

Baker, K., Jin, X., Vaidhynathan, D., Jones, W., Christensen, D., Sparn, B., Woods, J., Sorensen, H., & Lunacek, M. (2016). Grid Connected Functionality. [Data set]. NREL. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/49

Baker, Kyri, Xin Jin, Deepthi Vaidhynathan, Wesley Jones, Dane Christensen, Bethany Sparn, Jason Woods, Harry Sorensen, and Monte Lunacek. Grid Connected Functionality. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, June, 21, 2016.  Distributed by NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/49

@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8155,
title = {Grid Connected Functionality},
author = {Baker, Kyri and Jin, Xin and Vaidhynathan, Deepthi and Jones, Wesley and Christensen, Dane and Sparn, Bethany and Woods, Jason and Sorensen, Harry and Lunacek, Monte},
abstractNote = {Dataset demonstrating the potential benefits that residential buildings can provide for frequency regulation services in the electric power grid. In a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) implementation, simulated homes along with a physical laboratory home are coordinated via a grid aggregator, and it is shown that their aggregate response has the potential to follow the regulation signal on a timescale of seconds. Connected (communication-enabled), devices in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) received demand response (DR) requests from a grid aggregator, and the devices responded accordingly to meet the signal while satisfying user comfort bounds and physical hardware limitations.},
url = {https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/49},
year = {2016},
howpublished = {NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/49},
note = {Accessed: 2026-04-25}
}

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Submitted Jun 21, 2016