Projects

Transactive Energy Service System (TESS) platform that enables grid-interactive control through two-way communication between DERs and a local energy market.

2022 - 2023

Post Road Foundation will work with New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, Efficiency Maine Trust, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Knowledge Problem, LLC. to deploy a Transactive Energy Service System (TESS) platform that enables grid-interactive control through two-way communication between DERs and a local energy market.

Scale of Demand Flexibility: 1.1 - 2.5 MW for up to 3 hours
Expected Energy Savings: 16% from efficiency measures
Planned Location of Buildings: New Hampshire, Maine

The project will test TESS in three rural communities in New Hampshire and Maine, each consisting of 100 to 250 single-family homes, small commercial buildings, and small industrial customers. The team expects that TESS will be able to do the following:

Facilitate more effective use of distribution systems through load flexibility, with applications such as peak load management.
Reveal the financial value of DER deployment on a distribution system.
Lower financial and engineering hurdles to beneficial electrification.

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Stone Edge Farm Estate Vineyard and Winery Microgrid Solution Testing, Sonoma, California

2019 - 2022

Located in Sonoma, CA, Stone Edge Farm (SEF) estate vineyard and winery is equipped with a full microgrid suite including + 18 DERs which represent about 500 kW of generation and +400 kW / 1 MWh of storage. Heila Technologies is a start-up (now acquired) that has developed cutting edge microgrid control technologies and currently used to operate the SEF microgrid.

Commerical research and testing was done on site for advanced microgrid operations.

Stone Edge Farm Estate Vineyard & Winery Microgrid Information

California Energy Commission's Zero Net Energy Research Gaps Analysis

2017 - 2018

The goal of the Research Gaps Analysis for Getting to Zero Net Energy Buildings is to identify, describe, and prioritize key RDD&D needs for achieving the state's goals for ZNE buildings.

zneroadmap.researchenergy.net/

Zero Net Energy & All-Electric community research

2015 - 2016

I am currently conducting a survey of findings for Zero Net Energy and All-Electric households for stakeholders in the building industry.
If you would like to be a part of the Zero Net Energy & All-Electric research, please email me for more information in the contact section.
Thanks,
Heidi

The Changing Electricity Resource Mix: The Rise of Distributed Solar, Storage, and Demand Responsive

Spring 2015

Targeted Application of Distributed Energy Resources to Proactively and Reactively Mitigate Distribution Grid Stress

Was on a team in Spring 2015 at Stanford that modeled the impact of adding distributed energy resources (DER) to the distribution grid in Los Angeles and North Carolina to alleviate distribution congestion and maintain reliability under high renewable penetrations.

https://energy.stanford.edu/energy-transformation-collaborative/courses/fall-2014

1,000 sq. foot Zero Net Energy Home: Start.Home

January 2012 - October 2013

I had the opportunity to be a part of this amazing project of designing and building an affordable Zero Net Energy home for the 2013 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition.

After the competition, start.home is being able to house a family at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.

To learn more about start.home and how we built it at Stanford University:
http://news.stanford.edu/features/2014/starthome/

Sustainable Tour for the Built Environment

April 2009 - September 2009

In mid-April Heidi took to the road to learn first hand about the progression of the green building industry in the Western United States. The “Sustainable Tour Across North America” was born.

To follow the archive posts from 2009:
sustainable tour website