An Electric Connection: Homes Helping the Grid | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Graphic by Stephanie King | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

This diagram outlines the relationship between appliances, a connected home (CH) control system developed by PNNL, and the power grid. Testing has shown the control system can successfully connect four appliance types with the grid and control their electricity demand.

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Credit: Photo by Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Michael Brambley

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Credit: Photo by Michael Brambley | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The PNNL Lab Homes, two identically constructed modular homes that are fitted with instruments and are unoccupied provide facilities for testing advanced home energy efficiency and smart grid-related technologies. The Lab Homes were used in the connected homes project to experimentally test, under realistic conditions, the controls designed to enable legacy home appliances to provide services to the electric power grid.

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