@proceedings{35429,
  author = {Lisa C Schwartz and David Nemtzow and Natalie Mims Frick},
  title = {How to Build a Connected Community: Policies to Promote Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings and Demand Flexibility},
  abstract = {<p>Efficient, connected, grid-interactive, smart, and flexible buildings are key to decarbonizing the U.S. energy economy, optimizing energy use, reducing electric consumers{\textquoteright} bills, integrating variable renewable energy resources, and improving the reliability and performance of the nation{\textquoteright}s electricity grids. Such grid-interactive efficient buildings have high levels of energy efficiency layered with other distributed energy resources (DERs) and intelligent controls to provide demand flexibility. \&nbsp;</p><p>Policy support is unfolding at the federal, state, and local levels to transform homes and workplaces into state-of-the-art energy-efficient buildings and community-level grid services. This paper starts by describing the potential benefits. Next, it highlights existing policies {\textemdash} with a focus on state-level actions {\textemdash} that support grid-interactive efficient building deployment and demand flexibility. Finally, it identifies current trends and gaps, policies and programs that promote grid-interactive efficient buildings, and aggregations of grid-interactive efficient buildings referred to as Virtual Power Plants.\&nbsp;</p>},
  year = {2022},
  booktitle = {2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  journal = {2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  series = {2022 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings},
  month = {08/2022},
  language = {eng},
}