Carbon Smart Construction Happy Hour: Renewable Energy, Storage, and Resiliency

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Join 3C-REN, AIA Santa Barbara, and the Central Coast Green Building Council for Carbon Smart Construction , a new series of green building happy hours bringing together people from across the building and design community.

Each event offers a chance to grab a drink, connect with colleagues and new faces, and dig into a different topic related to building better, healthier, and more sustainable buildings. From embodied carbon and bio-based materials to high-performance, all-electric construction, the series explores the ideas, materials, and practices shaping the future of building on the Central Coast.

This event is part of the Carbon Smart Construction series.

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, boost resiliency in emergencies that may lead to power outages. We’ll review the background and drivers of distributed energy generation and storage and review some new technologies and approaches to meeting a project team’s goals.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the drivers for increasing distributed PVs 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 AIA LU approved for this course

Instructors

Jennifer Rennick, In Balance Green Consulting

Cash Upton, Brighten Solar & Central Coast Green Building Council