{"646137":{"#nid":"646137","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Start-Ups Transforming Energy Usage","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETanya Barham\u200b\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECEO \u0026amp; Founder, Community Energy Labs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne-tenth of US greenhouse gas emissions, or 560M tons of CO2 per year, come\u0026nbsp;from direct combustion of gas in buildings. Ninety-three percent\u0026nbsp;of commercial and institutional\u0026nbsp;buildings use fossil fuels to heat water and air. Policymakers worldwide are\u0026nbsp;initiating changes like building electrification that set the stage for an overhaul of\u0026nbsp;buildings in hopes that better performance will enable improved renewable\u0026nbsp;energy integration and grid benefits.\u0026nbsp;But matching when buildings use energy to\u0026nbsp;when renewables produce it isn\u0026#39;t as easy or affordable as it sounds.\u0026nbsp;Barham will\u0026nbsp;talk about how Community Energy Labs is using machine learning to help make\u0026nbsp;building\u0026nbsp;flexibility\u0026nbsp;more affordable and accessible and share some of her lessons\u0026nbsp;learned during 27 yeas of entrepreneurship and 3 start-ups.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Paul Hines\u200b\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECEO \u0026amp; Co-Founder, Packetized Energy\u200b\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor and the L. Richard Fisher chair in\u0026nbsp;EE,\u0026nbsp;University of Vermont\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere is broad agreement that load flexibility is a key element of grid\u0026nbsp;modernization and electrification. The question is: How do we get tens of\u0026nbsp;millions of smart devices deployed into homes and businesses, and then once\u0026nbsp;deployed, how do we enable millions of devices to actually solve grid problems\u0026nbsp;rather than create new ones? This panel presentation will review work that we\u0026nbsp;are doing at Packetized Energy to (a) make it easy for everyone to install and\u0026nbsp;benefit from smart energy devices, and (b) coordinate those device through\u0026nbsp;algorithms inspired by those used in internet communications.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin IEEE PES in hearing from two experts in the energy field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join IEEE PES in hearing from two experts in the energy field."}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2021-04-05 18:33:13","changed_gmt":"2021-04-05 18:33:13","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2021-04-22T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2021-04-22T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2021-04-22T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2021-04-22 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2021-04-22 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2021-04-22 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.campuslabs.com\/engage\/organization\/ieee-pes-georgia-tech","title":"IEEE PES on Engage"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"184104","name":"IEEE PES"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"},{"id":"168361","name":"start-ups"},{"id":"186896","name":"expert talk"},{"id":"184323","name":"online events"},{"id":"184327","name":"virtual events"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1791","name":"Student sponsored"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:zheng.an@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EZheng An\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}