Next Generation Retrofits for Multi-family Buildings

1. Next Generation Retrofits for Multi-family Buildings Public Workshop December 11, 2018 Energy Efficiency Research Office Energy Research & Development Division

2. Agenda

3. In case of emergency Facilities No coffee or food is allowed in the auditorium Muting of WebEx participants- Use the chat function All materials from this workshop can be found at: www.energy.ca.gov/research/notices/2018-12-11_workshop/presentations/ Comments can be emailed to our docket: https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Lists/DocketLog.aspx?docketnumber=19-ERDD-01 Housekeeping

4. Commitment to Diversity The Energy Commission adopted a resolution strengthening its commitment to diversity in our funding programs. We continue to encourage disadvantaged and underrepresented businesses and communities to engage in and benefit from our many programs. To meet this commitment, Energy Commission staff conducts outreach efforts and activities to: • Engage with disadvantaged and underrepresented groups throughout the state. • Notify potential new applicants about the Energy Commission's funding opportunities. • Assist applicants in understanding how to apply for funding from the Energy Commission's programs. • Survey participants to measure progress in diversity outreach efforts.

5. We Want to Hear From You! 1-Minute Survey • The information supplied will be used for public reporting purposes to display anonymous overall attendance of diverse groups. • iPads are being passed around the room • WebEx participants already answered the four-survey questions during WebEx registration • Thank You for your time!

6. Background • Nearly half of low-income residents live in multifamily housing, yet these housing units present some of the most complex barriers to retrofitting aging infrastructure. • Existing retrofit approaches are expensive, time intensive, invasive and often limited in scope. • Approximately 50% of the energy bill goes toward heating and cooling buildings and providing water heating. • Improving the efficiency of the building envelope and mechanical systems can reduce energy bills of tenants, and also improve comfort. • Energy Commission’s R&D program is interested in identifying cutting edge envelope and mechanical systems for use in multifamily retrofits that have the potential to substantially reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. • Annual R&D budget approximately $150 M with 30% for energy efficiency

7. Capturing the Opportunity to Modernize US Buildings Joan Glickman Residential Buildings Building Technologies Program

8. Multiple Challenges Are Converging • Lagging construction productivity costs the global economy about $1.6 trillion each year; among the least digitized industries • Grid reliability is an ongoing concern; high costs incurred with failures • 2003 US blackout alone cost $7-10 billion (human/mechanical errors) • Weather-related blackouts cost US on average between $18 and $33 billion each year (some estimates as high as $75 billion) • Aging buildings & infrastructure (e.g., grid, communications) • Over half U.S. buildings are more than 40 years old • Current structures not built for resiliency • 2017 was US most expensive year for weather-related disasters on record with a price tag of more than $300 billion • 16 individual disasters > $1 billion each • Disasters in six of the seven disaster categoriestracked • Drought  Flood Winter storm • Tropical cyclone  Wildfire • Freeze  Severe storm

9. With these challenges, comes… a compelling opportunity An Expanded Pie With Varied Interests & Varied Stakeholders Business/Industry Modernized Infrastructure e.g., buildings, communications Builders Sufficient Affordable Housing Utilities Energy Efficiency Insurers Grid Reliability States Disaster Resilience Cities Technology & Economic Development Environmentalists Technology Companies

10. Current Approach Won’t Cut It Energy retrofits today are… • Too slow • Too costly • Not scalable • Too short on energy savings …and basically unappealing to majority of home owners (and many building owners)

11. Traditional Path

12. We Need Disruptive Innovation Why was the iPhone Transformational? • It didn’t just give us what we thought we wanted. It convinced us to want more…created value…not just functional, but emotional and social. • It addressed (or created) a “need” that most consumers didn’t know they had. • A “need” that translates today into $1000 phones – even though calls drop more frequently than they did with landlines in 1970s. • Who could predict that people would want their phones to be cameras? Allow them to surf the net, read a book, play games, obsessively “connect” with friends?

13. Need New Approaches

14. The Challenge: Make net-zero energy retrofits the defacto choice for modernizing existing buildings. Solutions Must Be… Comfortable Resilient Visually appealing Provide grid services Minimally invasive Competitively pricedScalablePlug and Play

15. Joan Glickman Program Manager Residential Buildings Integration DOE Building Technologies Office joan.glickman@ee.doe.gov 202.586.5607 (office) / 202.492.5080 (cell)

16. Workshop Goals • Provide and obtain information on innovative technologies and approaches for deep energy retrofits to building envelope and mechanical systems for multi-family buildings. • Identify challenges to developing solutions that are affordable, can be deployed quickly with minimal disruption • Identify and prioritize R&D opportunities • Seek public input and feedback Mechanical System (HVAC and DHW) Goals: • Installed with minimal disruption and changes to existing ventilation and other systems. • Leverage opportunities for digital design and advanced computing to enable custom manufacturing. Building Envelope Goals: • Solutions can be mass produced and applied to existing facades • Non-invasive solutions • Use of automation technologies • Leverage opportunities for digital design and fabrication.

17. California Multifamily Building Stock and Current Retrofit Status • Tiffany Mateo, Mechanical Engineer California Energy Commission, Efficiency Division • Andy Brooks, Director of West Coast Operations Association for Energy Affordability

18. Cutting Edge Approaches • Jonathan Benezry, Senior Project Manager New York State Energy Research and Development Authority • Kipp Bradford, Chief Technology Officer Treau • Saul Griffith, Founder and CEO Otherlab • Maziar Shirakh, Senior Mechanical Engineer California Energy Commission, Efficiency Division

19. Breakouts and Report Out • Breakouts: 10:00 – 11:45 • Prioritization and Reporting Out: 11:45-12:30

20. Facilitation Process for Breakouts • Two Morning Breakout Groups • Building Envelope • HVAC • Two Afternoon Breakout Sessions • The Process • Compression Planning: Allow groups to quickly focus, become aligned, and committed to specific actions • All group members will have the opportunity to participate and contribute • Goal is to optimize the use of time and achieve agreed-upon solutions and actions

21. Breakout Sessions • Collaborative Brainstorming and Prioritization • Six brainstorming sessions to identify R&D barriers and solutions for the next generation of building envelope/HVAC technology, as well as identify strategic approaches to innovation • Two prioritization sessions to determine the ‘Best’ solutions for taking on R&D challenges/innovative paths to building envelope/HVAC technology

22. Breakout Sessions • This is a PACKED agenda • Participants should take breaks as they feel necessary, but other than lunch, there will not be designated break times. • Note lunch is a little later to accommodate the agenda.

23. Breakout Sessions • Some rules • One idea at a time • No speeches - one minute rule • One person at a time • Suspend judgment • Hitch-hiking is good - build on others’ ideas • No attribution – these ideas are developed by the group • BE CREATIVE! GOOD LUCK!

24. Building Envelope BreakoutQuestion #1 What next generation building envelope retrofit technology breakthroughs are needed for an integrated façade cladding-type solution to be successful in California and the nation, and can meet the following criteria and goals as listed? • Reduces energy usage by half (baseline)  • Zero-carbon • Enable all-electric solution • Can be completed in one week

25. Building Envelope BreakoutQuestion #2 What R&D challenges need to be overcome to develop advanced building envelope technologies as part of an integrated facade solution at cost-effective price points with one-week deployment?

26. Building Envelope BreakoutQuestion #3 What R&D Solutions can overcome these barriers to realizing and installing advanced building envelope technologies for an integrated façade solution at a cost-effective price points with one-week deployment? • Is it a long-term or short-term solution?

27. Building EnvelopePrioritization R&D solutions (3 red and 3 blue dots): • Which R&D solutions are the most likely to help in realizing major building envelope advances as part of an integrated solution at cost-effective price points in the near and midterm (< 5 years vs 5-10 years)? Red dots for short-term, blue dots for long-term.

28. HVAC BreakoutQuestion #1 What advanced optimally configured, high efficiency HVAC and hot water retrofit breakthroughs are needed for an integrated solution to be successful in California and the nation, and can meet the following criteria and goals as listed? • Reduces energy usage by half (baseline)  • Zero-carbon • Enable all-electric solutions

29. HVAC BreakoutQuestion #2 What R&D challenges need to be overcome to develop advanced, optimally configured, high-efficiency HVAC and hot water retrofit technologies as part of an integrated solution at cost-effective price points with one-week deployment?

30. HVAC BreakoutQuestion #3 What R&D Solutions can overcome these barriers to realizing advanced, optimally configured, high-efficiency HVAC and hot water retrofit technologies as part of an integrated solution at cost-effective price points with one-week deployment? Is it a long-term or short-term solution?

31. HVAC Prioritization R&D solutions (3 red and 3 blue dots): • Which R&D solutions are the most likely to help in realizing major advances in optimally configured, high-efficiency HVAC and hot water retrofit technologies at cost-effective price points in the near and midterm (< 5 years vs 5-10 years)? Red dots for short-term, blue dots for long-term.

32. Lunch 12:30 to 1:30

33. Breakouts and Report Out • Breakouts: 1:30 – 3:30 • Prioritization and Reporting Out: 3:30 – 4:10

34. Mixed Group BreakoutQuestion #4 How would a phased R&D approach—such as applied research to test concepts and then a full build out if parameters/criteria are met – be developed for this kind of integrated solutions? • What types of deliverables should be required to assist in “down-select” process? • What’s a realistic set of achievements we can expect over a 5 year period? First year? 3 years? 5 years?

35. Mixed Group BreakoutQuestion #5 How does an eventual building envelope solution apply to various building types in various climate zones?

36. Mixed Group BreakoutQuestion #6 In order to innovate and reach these breakthroughs and implement them cost-effectively and efficiently, which stakeholders need to be engaged in the cradle to grave process of these projects? How do cross-cutting teams look?

37. Mixed Group Prioritization Innovative Approaches (5 red dots): • Which of these ideas/approaches are the most likely to help in realizing real innovation in building envelope technologies as part of an integrated solution at cost-effective price points?

38. Public Comment • In the room • On-line, type questions using the chat function

39. Next Steps and Closing Remarks Written comments must be submitted by 5:00 pm, December 28, 2018 Send comments using one of the following: • Electronic comments-indicate Next Generation Retrofits for Multifamily Buildings in the Subject Line: https://efiling.energy.ca.gov/Ecomment/Ecomment.aspx?docketnumber=19-ERDD-01 • Written comments - comments-indicate docket number 19-ERDD-01 and Next Generation Retrofits for Multifamily Buildings in the Subject Line and email or send to the Docket Unit as indicated in the notice (https://www.energy.ca.gov/research/notices/#12112018)

40. Energy Commission Resources • Information on the Energy Commission’s R&D Program: www.energy.ca.gov/research • Innovation Showcase of Energy Commission R&D projects: http://innovation.energy.ca.gov/SearchHome.aspx?ti=636799968237425382 • Sign up for the Listserver by selecting “Opportunity” to find out about other funding opportunities by the Energy Commission: www.energy.ca.gov/listservers/

41. Thank you!