Renewable Energy, Energy Storage and Resiliency

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Enjoy food, drinks, and great company at the last event in our High-Performance Happy Hour Series! Whether you’re a homeowner, architect, or simply curious about electrification, join us to learn how renewable energy and storage are shaping the building decarbonization landscape. 

Event Description

As energy codes and interest in electrification come together, the winning combination of renewable energy and energy storage work together to reduce pollution, improve affordability and, importantly, support resiliency in emergencies that may lead to power outages. We’ll review the background and drivers of distributed energy generation and storage and review different approaches to meet a project team’s goals.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the drivers for increasing distributed PV’s and battery storage for individual projects and neighborhoods
• Differentiate between terms including distributed energy storage, ‘microgrids’, islanding, grid-tied, demand response and behind-the-meter / in-front-of-the-meter
• Review key design features of batteries to inform system selection and sizing
• Understand factors impacting upfront and long-term system costs, including time of use and options for managing renewable energy and battery use.

Learning Units

• 1.0 AIA HSW LUs pending for this course
• 1 hour of ZNCD Continuing Education units for CAB

Instructor

Jennifer Rennick, In Balance Green Consulting

Andy Pease, In Balance Green Consulting

This event is held in partnership with AIA Santa Barbara. Attendance is open to all.