Project SummaryLarge office buildings in PG&E’s service territory use almost 20 percent of the commercial electricity and consume more than 12 percent of the natural gas delivered to commercial customers. A prior study found that achieving energy efficiency alone was not sufficient to motivate...

Project SummaryAutomated Hybrid Demand Control and Demand Response in Commercial Accountsstudies the energy and demand reduction potential and their economics of an advanced building controller technology that integrates with 3rd party BMS or EMS. The technology is different from traditional demand...

This project had two primary goals: - To examine the performance characteristics of highly controlled lighting systems in a real office environment in terms of comparison to applicable codes, and -To evaluate the ability of the OTF Consortium framework to deliver a highly controlled solution...

This report evaluates the lighting Demand Response (DR) technology installed at the Federal Building in Los Angeles, CA. The DR study is managed by Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Design and Engineering Group and is part of the Office of the Future (OTF) initiative. The OTF is a new energy...

This project focuses on demonstrating residential DR by examining various treatments to three separate groups of homes: a community energy storage (CES) block, a ZNE block (that also uses energy storage), and an RESU block. All homes will receive communicating thermostats, energy information...

This is a joint effort between Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Sempra Utilities, and Southern California Edison to incorporate energy efficiency measures for data centers to be used in computer building...

Project SummaryThis project seeks to establish demand response (DR) potential commercial building control systems (building controls). This project is part of a multi-phase, multi-year effort to evaluate the possible incorporation of DR regulations into the California Building Energy Efficiency...

Project SummaryThis project seeks to establish demand response (DR) potential for residential building controls (residential controls). This project is part of a multi-phase, multi-year effort to evaluate the possible incorporation of DR regulations into the California Building Energy Efficiency...

Project SummaryThe Office of the Future Collaborative (OTFC) strives to uncover a strategy for efficiency in commercial office buildings that incorporates integrated design strategies, proven technologies, innovative leasing arrangements, and an enhanced partnership between the interested parties...

 In this study, potential concepts were tested with building owners and other stakeholders at a large, chain hotel in San Francisco to see what would spur interest in aggressive (more than 30 percent) energy savings...