diff --git a/assets/sass/custom.scss b/assets/sass/custom.scss index c92143b..a913a79 100644 --- a/assets/sass/custom.scss +++ b/assets/sass/custom.scss @@ -105,10 +105,6 @@ img {vertical-align: middle;} .figConfigpdf h4 { line-height: 100%; } - display: inline-table; - max-width: 2vw; - margin-right: 3vw; - margin-left:2vw; h4 { font-size: 1vw; font-size: 1vw; @@ -121,7 +117,8 @@ img {vertical-align: middle;} } -} + + .figConfigpdf figcaption{ position:relative; p { diff --git a/content/ABOUT/About.md b/content/ABOUT/About.md index b218e1e..5b757e2 100644 --- a/content/ABOUT/About.md +++ b/content/ABOUT/About.md @@ -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 - - Rapid adjustment of commercial building energy loads in response to power grid needs, a key step toward transactive control - - Energy management in buildings that lack building automation systems - - 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. @@ -31,12 +28,12 @@ Eclipse VOLTTRON is open source and publicly available from GitHub, and its ongo 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) diff --git a/content/posts/BuildingsOperations.md b/content/posts/BuildingsOperations.md index 533bd7b..3c0735d 100644 --- a/content/posts/BuildingsOperations.md +++ b/content/posts/BuildingsOperations.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: Giving Control to SMBs +title: Building Operations and Efficiency image: images/MarketsImages/BuildingImageMarkets2.png 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. @@ -12,6 +12,22 @@ summary: Eclipse VOLTTRON capabilities improve control and operation of building 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. + \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/posts/ConnectedHomes.md b/content/posts/ConnectedHomes.md index 04793e9..fc3087b 100644 --- a/content/posts/ConnectedHomes.md +++ b/content/posts/ConnectedHomes.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -title: Connecting Home Appliances +title: Connected Homes image: images/MarketsImages/ConnectHouse.png 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" @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ sidebar_left: ConnectedHome 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. --- -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. + + diff --git a/content/posts/MarketSolns.md b/content/posts/MarketSolns.md index f3d3104..2d139bd 100644 --- a/content/posts/MarketSolns.md +++ b/content/posts/MarketSolns.md @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ --- -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. image: images/voltdeploy.png @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ date: "2020-01-04T00:00:00" sidebar_left: MarketSlnLeft sidebar_right: MarketSlnRight --- -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. diff --git a/layouts/partials/sidebar/BuildingsOperationsRight.html b/layouts/partials/sidebar/BuildingsOperationsRight.html index d553be6..4520f07 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/sidebar/BuildingsOperationsRight.html +++ b/layouts/partials/sidebar/BuildingsOperationsRight.html @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@

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+ Giving Control to SMBs - 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). read more diff --git a/layouts/partials/sidebar/ConnectedHome.html b/layouts/partials/sidebar/ConnectedHome.html index 26b5536..151ff3d 100644 --- a/layouts/partials/sidebar/ConnectedHome.html +++ b/layouts/partials/sidebar/ConnectedHome.html @@ -6,8 +6,14 @@

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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. - Read More

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+ Supporting Connected Communities - + 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. + Read More +

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The 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. Read More

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+ Getting Intelligent with the Grid - + 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. + Read More +