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Burlington Electric Department's and Packetized Energy's automated peak prediction solution plus technology that transforms electric water heater fleets into virtual batteries providing a range of real-time grid services. (Nov 2020)

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Date: November 2020

This presentation discusses the successful partnership between Burlington Electric Department's (BED) automated peak prediction solution. Its new technology transforms fleets of electric water heaters into virtual batteries that can provide a range of real-time grid services while simultaneously ensuring customers maintain or even improve their quality of energy service.

BED's load forecasting generates peak probabilities which provide optimized demand response event scheduling without lifting a finger. Using ideas that connect billions of devices over the Internet, Packetized Energy's Nimble software turns a fleet of DERs, such as water heaters, into a fully dispatchable virtual battery that can be set to provide a wide range of real-time, automated grid services, such as load shaping to track with variable renewables, automated energy price arbitrage, and peak reduction.

The presentation provides data from virtual battery deployments with four utility partners, including co-presenters Burlington Electric Department.

Speakers:
Casey Lamont, Burlington Electric Department
Freddie Hall, Burlington Electric Department
Bonnie Pratt, Packetized Energy Technologies