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@@ -18,11 +18,8 @@ Eclipse VOLTTRON, developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and now par
 Business, research, and academic communities agree that Eclipse VOLTTRON is an important and versatile resource for improving system performance in buildings and creating a more flexible and reliable power grid. The technology, which was built with security as an integral priority, is used for multiple purposes, including:
 
 - Collection, aggregation, and visualization of data from building operations and other functions
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 - Rapid adjustment of commercial building energy loads in response to power grid needs, a key step toward transactive control
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 - Energy management in buildings that lack building automation systems
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 - Deployment of fault detection and diagnostics applications in buildings to achieve increased operational efficiency.
 
 But the technology’s adaptability has significantly expanded its promise; users are applying the platform in novel ways not originally envisioned. 
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 The following articles provide examples of Eclipse VOLTTRON’s capabilities and accomplishments:
 
-Buildings, the Grid, and an Electric Future (2023)
-PNNL Helps Build Connected Communities (2021)
-Sustainability, Energy Research Included in Spokane Smart Eco-District (2021)
-VOLTTRON™ Goes to School (2020)
-This Dispatch Delivers Good Energy News (2019)
-Energy Controls Platform Available in Open Source (2018)
-VOLTTRON™ User Community Expands Overseas (2017) 
-Regional Project Reveals the Potential of Transactive Control (2017)
-PNNL-led Campus Project Expands to Multiple Buildings (2016)
+- [Buildings, the Grid, and an Electric Future (2023)](https://www.pnnl.gov/publications/buildings-grid-and-electric-future)
+- [PNNL Helps Build Connected Communities (2021)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/pnnl-helps-build-connected-communities)
+- [Sustainability, Energy Research Included in Spokane Smart Eco-District (2021)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/sustainability-energy-research-included-spokane-smart-eco-district)
+- [VOLTTRON™ Goes to School (2020)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/volttrontm-goes-school)
+- [This Dispatch Delivers Good Energy News (2019)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/dispatch-delivers-good-energy-news)
+- [Energy Controls Platform Available in Open Source (2018)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/energy-controls-platform-available-open-source)
+- [VOLTTRON™ User Community Expands Overseas (2017)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/volttrontm-user-community-expands-overseas)
+- [Regional Project Reveals the Potential of Transactive Control (2017)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/regional-project-reveals-potential-transactive-control)
+- [PNNL-led Campus Project Expands to Multiple Buildings (2016)](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/pnnl-led-campus-project-expands-multiple-buildings)

content/posts/BuildingsOperations.md

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-title: Giving Control to SMBs
+title: Building Operations and Efficiency
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 date: "2020-01-06T00:00:00"
 description: Eclipse VOLTTRON capabilities improve control and operation of building devices and systems, leading to enhanced performance and energy efficiency.
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  Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been developing a low-cost central control system for SMBs to more effectively manage heating and cooling, hot water, connected lighting, and potentially other building functions. The system will be interoperable, user-centric, and retrofittable.
 
-**Impact**: Researchers estimate that not only will SMB owners and managers save money and equipment life, but broad deployment of the control system potentially could deliver source energy reductions between 2,000 and 2,500 trillion Btus yearly with commensurate emissions reductions
+**Impact**: Researchers estimate that not only will SMB owners and managers save money and equipment life, but broad deployment of the control system potentially could deliver source energy reductions between 2,000 and 2,500 trillion Btus yearly with commensurate emissions reductions.
 
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+Enabling Efficiency in D.C.
 
+Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) partnered with an energy services firm to deploy Eclipse VOLTTRON™—along with applications that improve building operations and efficiency—at a school and office building in Washington, D.C. Read More.
+
+In addition to fault detection and diagnostic technologies that improve efficiency, PNNL also installed and tested its Intelligent Load Control (ILC) in both buildings. ILC quickly and automatically adjusts building electricity needs in response to power grid supply and demand fluctuations.
+
+Impact: Most commercial buildings could benefit from operational improvements and the ability to communicate directly with the power grid to save energy and costs. The application deployments identified some significant energy-saving opportunities for both buildings, as well as infrastructure issues that may hinder effective use. Further, the lessons learned from the testing will help potential future users of ILC and efficiency applications reduce the effort needed to apply the technologies in buildings. 
+
+Dispatching Optimization  and Savings
+
+A Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) technology that employs Eclipse VOLTTRON successfully enabled economic dispatch during a multi-month field test in New York in 2019. Read More.
+Economic dispatch effectively optimizes the operation of combined heating, cooling, and power system (CHP) units. This advance could be key in bringing more clean, renewable energy onto the power grid.
+PNNL’s method, which also could save energy and enhance grid reliability, successfully enabled economic dispatch during the New York field test at an energy provider’s plant. Results strongly suggest the system can be deployed in the field and customized at lower cost than existing options.
+
+Impact: The technology represents a cost and performance breakthrough, and a step forward in establishing next-generation integrated energy systems. A benchmarking analysis, which examined operations during the field test and compared the economic dispatch system to the previous CHP control method, demonstrated savings on the order of $50 per day. This equates to $20,000 per year in additional profit from a CHP. 
+-->

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-title: Connecting Home Appliances
+title: Connected Homes
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 Description: Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, Eclipse VOLTTRON is a secure solution that can help turn today’s house into tomorrow’s connected home, enabling features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience.
 date: "2020-01-06T00:00:00"
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 summary: Whether it involves control of thermostats, lighting, hot water or other functions, Eclipse VOLTTRON is a secure solution that can help turn today’s house into tomorrow’s connected home, enabling features that result in improved energy efficiency, cost savings and convenience.  
 
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-The PNNL technology can enable the heating and cooling units and hot water heaters to manage their electricity use in ways that help the grid coordinate supply and demand, while enabling occupant cost and comfort preferences. 
+PNNL is introducing technologies, including Eclipse VOLTTRON, Intelligent Load Control, Automated Fault Detection and Diagnostics (AFDD), and Automated Identification of Re-tuning or Retro-commissioning (AIRCx) to [Connected Communities](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/pnnl-helps-build-connected-communities) projects in Spokane, WA and Salt Lake City, UT.
 
-**Impact**: The technology could benefit an estimated 120 million homes. Working in concert with utilities and the grid, such smart appliances can quickly and automatically change their electricity demand to help even out grid variations and ultimately reduce the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere.
+**Impact**: The projects, which serve as models for future efforts, seek to transform thousands of homes and workplaces into state-of-the-art, energy-efficient buildings that interact with the grid to coordinate their energy consumption. The coordination can save energy, reduce costs and carbon emissions, improve grid reliability, and increase use of clean energy sources.
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+“Connecting” Home Appliances
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+Eclipse VOLTTRON and associated algorithms were applied in a project that effectively transformed existing home heating and cooling units and hot water heaters into smart appliances that can coordinate with the grid. Read More.
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+The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-developed technology enables the heating and cooling units and hot water heaters to manage their electricity use in ways that help the grid coordinate supply and demand, while also enabling occupant cost and comfort preferences. 
+ 
+Impact: The technology could benefit tens of millions of homes. Working in concert with utilities and the grid, such smart appliances can quickly and automatically change their electricity demand to help even out grid variations and ultimately reduce the amount of greenhouse gas entering the atmosphere
+
+-->

content/posts/MarketSolns.md

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-title: Getting Intelligent with the Grid
+title: Marketplace Solutions
 
 Description: Eclipse VOLTTRON provides a flexible and secure open-source platform for molding solutions in any field involving devices, data and decisions.
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 date: "2020-01-04T00:00:00"
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-ILC was created as part of the PNNL-led Clean Energy and Transactive Campus project, an effort initially funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Washington State. ILC offers three primary buildings-grid capabilities: capacity bidding, which incentivizes targeted consumption reductions; transactive energy methods for enabling a rapid negotiation process between buildings and the grid; and peak power load management.
+[ILC](https://www.pnnl.gov/intelligent-load-control) was created as part of the PNNL-led [Clean Energy and Transactive Campus](https://www.pnnl.gov/projects/clean-energy-and-transactive-campus) project, an effort initially funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Washington State. ILC offers three primary buildings-grid capabilities: capacity bidding, which incentivizes targeted consumption reductions; transactive energy methods for enabling a rapid negotiation process between buildings and the grid; and peak power load management.
 
-**Impact**: The technology’s peak power load management capability has rapidly dropped electricity demand in buildings by 10 to 20 percent, reducing grid stress while maintaining occupant comfort within an acceptable range. ILC has been successfully deployed in multiple buildings at PNNL, at the University of Toledo, in two Washington, D.C. commercial buildings, and will be central to two DOE Connected Communities projects in 2024. 
+**Impact**: The technology’s peak power load management capability has rapidly dropped electricity demand in buildings by 10 to 20 percent, reducing grid stress while maintaining occupant comfort within an acceptable range. ILC has been successfully deployed in multiple buildings at PNNL, at the University of Toledo, in two Washington, D.C. commercial buildings, and will be central to two DOE [Connected Communities projects](https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/pnnl-helps-build-connected-communities) in 2024. Next: PNNL will make ILC operational in its campus buildings to coordinate with the City of Richland’s utility in mitigating peak load constraints.

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+        <b>Giving Control to SMBs -</b> 
         Eclipse VOLTTRON is a central component in an efficiency and grid services solution for a key,
          underserved segment of the nation’s commercial buildings sector: small- and medium-sized buildings (SMBs). 
          <a href="/archives/accomplishments">read more</a>

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     <h3>Accomplishments</h3>
-    <p>In a PNNL-developed technology for homes, Eclipse VOLTTRON and associated algorithms from the Connected Homes project effectively transform existing home heating and cooling units and hot water heaters into smart appliances. 
-        <a href="/archives/accomplishments">Read More</a></p>
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+        <b>Supporting Connected Communities -</b>
+        Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are partnering on 
+        two Department of Energy-funded Connected Communities projects that got 
+        underway in 2024 to make homes and buildings more efficient and connected to 
+        the power grid.  
+        <a href="/archives/accomplishments">Read More</a>
+    </p>
 
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-<p>The PNNL-developed <b>Intelligent Load Control</b> (ILC) technology is delivered to buildings via the Eclipse VOLTTRON platform. ILC coordinates operation of building devices, 
-    such as heating and cooling units, to manage building energy use in coordination with power grid needs. <a href="/archives/accomplishments">Read More</a> </p>
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+    <b>Getting Intelligent with the Grid -</b>
+    The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)-developed Intelligent Load Control (ILC) technology is 
+    delivered to buildings via the Eclipse VOLTTRON platform. ILC coordinates operation of building devices, 
+    such as heating and cooling units, to manage building energy use in coordination with power grid needs. 
+    <a href="/archives/accomplishments">Read More</a> 
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