Community. Energy. People.
CEL advances energy innovation by providing planning, consulting and technologies to communities, load serving entities and energy providers. Watch a 5 minute video about our technology.
Areas Where We Can Help Specifically related to 2021 CEC EPIC Challenge:
Eligible Next-Generation Energy Technologies Categories that we cover: Software as a Service for Grid Interactive Buildings; Power Electronics; HVAC (Advanced Building Sensors); Energy Storage; Domestic Hot Water; Electric Transportation
Interactive tools to advance energy equity: Easy to understand UI/UX
Local community innovations: Our core team won a national award for engaging community in grid-interactive buildings. Check it out.
We Address the Following Minimum Design Requirements in the FOA:
Peak load management in all electric buildings (solving 20% peak load reduction requirement).
Data and control requirements for responding to real-time pricing and transactive signals and interoperability with DER aggregation and Virtual Power Plants.
Microgrid and Electric Vehicle design, implementation, modeling and operation through our international electronics partner with a microgrid competency team.
Our Technology Serves People
Washington, stringent commercial building standards (HB 1257) recently became law. Cities like Seattle are banning gas in municipal buildings. California’s governor issued an executive order banning sales of internal combustion vehicles by 2035. The California Energy Commission (CEC) is exploring all-electric new construction in the 2022 update of Title 24. Without better pricing and GEB approaches, building energy use and misaligned peaks could increase which is why the CEC is also planning to launch dynamic electric rates by 2024. We aim to field harden and advance GEB solutions for SMSCB and LMI building owners who struggle to affordably address these increasingly complex commercial energy prices and grid constraints.
CEL provides an IoT & Software as a Service control platform for building operators who find it complex, frustrating and very expensive to meet new building energy goals. We install wireless sensors, equipment controllers, and use cloud-based software powered by machine learning to autonomously predict and efficiently control how and when new existing building equipment is operating so that more of it is powered by renewables. In doing so we offer building owners higher levels of energy savings, lower carbon and up-front cost, and faster returns than competitors.
Our goals: (1) Focus on underserved building types and customers representing a scalable segment of the market; (2) Implement technical approaches to widespread load flexibility; (3) Deploy service models that incorporate customer priorities, constraints, and feedback.
Our objectives: (1) Deliver customer energy savings (5-25%) (2) Reduce peak demand (20-40%); (3) Improve occupant comfort, air quality (CO2) and load shape alignment to renewable availability compared to a measured baseline; (4) Deploy technologies and business models that are affordable, replicable, can stimulate job growth, and that can be deployed at scale in existing building types with minimal disruption to occupants.
Consulting: Our Community Energy Independence Process
We provide consulting services to help local communities plan for, identify, develop and own assets and infrastructure that can stabilize energy costs, generate future revenue and position the local workforce for emerging energy sector jobs. Through technical and programmatic expertise, CEL positions communities for new opportunities and active participation in an affordable, equitable and modern energy economy. CEL empowers these communities to collectively or independently identify, pilot, test and scale innovative, affordable, equitable and flexible energy projects that further economic and educational opportunity for community members.
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