Presented By: Tom A. Hines & Ari Rapport

IBACOS and the Advanced Clean Communities Collaborative (AC3) will be implementing a "connected communities" project of up to 1,000 new and existing single-family and multi-family homes in Duke Energy's North Carolina service territory. These homes will be equipped with distributed energy resource (DER) devices connected through the EnergyHub DERMS platform to serve utility peak capacity and resource adequacy needs at the bulk system and local transmission and distribution level in the Duke Energy service territory. Data on aggregated grid impacts and value across a range of buildings, end uses, and technologies will be collected to help identify best approaches to delivering flexible distributed capacity at scale. This session will present the latest findings and lessons learned from the project, which will be performed over a four year period from 2022-2026.