Energy Systems Integration Facility

1. Energy Systems Integration Facility May 2010

2. ESIF Supports National Goals • National carbon goals require massive deployment of renewable and efficiency technologies • The operational characteristics of many new energy technologies will require a transformation of the physical electricity infrastructure and how it’s operated • ESIF is designed to address issues associated with this transformation, reducing the technical and financial risk of new technology adoption

3. ESIF Provides EERE with a Comprehensive Approach to Integrating Renewable and Efficiency Technologies with the Electricity System and the Built Environment • Capability Gap Analysis • Renewable resource characterization • Renewable systems operations and analysis support • Integrated testing and field validation of components • Simulation and development of system controls • Analyzing storage systems • Advanced energy computing capability • Renewable electricity production and hydrogen synergies • Buildings System Integration • Market and integration analysis • Economic validation • Market competitiveness of zero energy buildings • Codes and Standards • Transportation electrification • ESIF Visioning and Design Process • Actions • Assemble experts • Identify activities and tasks needed to address capabilities • Identify lab, staff, and equipment needs • Results • 48 activities • 120 tasks • Lab space specs • Equipment specs

4. ESIF Snapshot 180,000 sq. ft. 24 Laboratories 200 Teraflop Computer 200 researchers Design 2009, early ‘10 Construction start 2010 Completion late 2012 Occupancy late 2012 ESIF S&TF ESIF Appropriations History and FY11 Request RSF Visitor Center

5. ESIF Addresses the System of Systems Solar Buildings Wind Vehicles Storage Hydrogen

6. Specific RE and EE integration and deployment problems that ESIF capabilities will uniquely address include: • Impacts on electric system stability and reliability under deployments of variable generation at scale • Transmission system operations challenges under scenarios of variable generation deployed at scale • Transition from passive to active operations of the distribution system under large-scale deployment of distributed (variable and conventional) generation technologies • Transmission and distribution strategies for accessing renewable resources and delivering them to load • Lack of Smart Grid communications and interactivity of components across the grid from generation to storage to load

7. Specific RE and EE integration and deployment problems that ESIF capabilities will uniquely address include (cont.): • Limited, smart load control technologies and communications to reduce peak demands • Distribution systems impacts caused by the interaction of the built environment with the electricity system • Lack of control strategies for vehicle-to-grid and grid-to-vehicle to enable the electrification of transportation • Impacts on the physical infrastructure of transportation electrification and new infrastructure needs • Addressing hydrogen infrastructure and hydrogen production and storage interfaces with existing energy infrastructure

8. Creating Unique National Assets • Renewable and efficiency hardware-in-the-loop testing of components and systems into full scale simulations of the distribution and transmission systems as well as the built environment • Virtual utility operations and simulation dedicated to integration of RE and EE technologies at scale • Smart grid testing and validation lab • 200+ teraflop computer with petabyte data center dedicated to EE and RE

9. The ESIF’s unique capabilities (Cont.): • High-power (MW scale at 480V and 13kV) capability to test prototype hardware • PV inverters (currently no test labs in US can test 500kW+) • Ability to test both distributed energy and smart loads at MW scale • Integrated zero-energy building load, generation, and storage testing • Integrated electricity (AC and DC), fuels (e.g. hydrogen, natural gas), and thermal connections throughout multiple testing bays • Visualization capabilities of real-time lab and field tests integrated with simulations

10. Imperatives for RE Integration ESIF Capabilities • Solar • Solar resource forecasting techniques • Advanced power electronics for grid interconnection • PV with distributed electric storage • Wind • Models and methods for wind-grid integration • Advanced wind forecasting techniques • Transmission modeling • Operations modeling • Hydrogen • H2/electric interfaces/RE electrolyzers • Storage systems • Fuel cell integration • Fueling systems • Vehicles • Plug-in-hybrids: vehicle-to-grid and grid-to-vehicle • Battery thermal management • Power electronics

11. Imperatives for EE Integration ESIF Capabilities • Buildings • Whole building simulation and optimization • Existing building stock retrofit approaches • New construction • Sensors and controls development and integration • Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) design and utilization • Dynamic load integration and control • Electric and thermal storage • Whole building integration • New material modeling and design • Code evaluation

12. Imperatives for Electricity Systems Integration • Smart grid modeling and testing • architecture • standards • interoperability • Storage optimization, control, and operation • Virtual utility operations for large-scale RE integration • Distributed resources optimization and integration • Microgrid control and operations • Power electronics and controls

13. Status • Design-build team selected (JE Dunn/ Smith Group) • Preliminary design complete • Contract negotiations awaiting CD-1 • Critical Decision package at DOE HQ for review • Appropriations still lacking equipment dollars (Included in President’s FY11 request)

14. ESIF Floor Plan Offices And Viz Centers High Bay HPC Test Beds

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19. Approximately 180,000 sq. ft. 25+ Laboratories 5 Testbeds (Outdoor, Roof, etc.) ~200 person Office area Specialty Areas Insight Center including Visualization Rooms and Collaboration areas Virtual Control Room for RE Integration and Infrastructure Visualization 15,000 sq. ft., 200+ teraflop HPC and petabyte data center Summary of Specs

20. Total Estimated Cost: $135 Million $9,871K – Design* $87,538K – Construction*             $32,000K – Equipment & HPC          $3,179K – Other Project Costs*                      $2,412K – DOE held Contingency  * includes management reserve of $12,963K Budget

21. ESIF Schedule • CD-0 (MNS) – Approved May 2007 • Received Funding ($55M) October 2007 • Define Internal User Requirements July 2008 • Define External user Requirements October 2008 • RFQ to Potential Bidders September 2008 • RFP Preparation Dec 08 – April 09 • RFP to Potential Bidders April 2009 • Select Design Build Contractor September 2009 • CD-1 Package May 2010 • CD 2/3 September 2010 • Construction Starts February 2011 • Construction Finishes Late 2012