%0 Conference Paper
%A Michael Stadler
%A Chris Marnay
%A Nicholas DeForest
%A Joseph H Eto
%A Gonçalo Cardoso
%A Andrea A Mammoli
%A Hans Barsun
%A Richard Burnett
%A David Klapp
%A Judy Lai
%B 2012 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference
%C Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington D.C., USA
%D 2012
%G eng
%R 10.1109/ISGT.2012.6175750
%T Web-Based Economic and Environmental Optimization of Microgrids
%2 LBNL-6354E
%8 01/2012
%X <p>Even as distributed generation and distributed energy resources (DER) become a more appealing option to meeting building electricity, heat, and cooling demands, the process of selecting the appropriate equipment mix remains as a complex and time-consuming obstacle. This is the motivation behind Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's (LBNL) development of WebOpt, a flexible web-based software as service (SaaS) approach for optimizing the selection and operation of DER equipment, and running the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM), the optimization platform that supports it. DER-CAM solves energy systems for microgrids [1], [2] (e.g. combined heat and power (CHP) or electric storage) holistically, taking into account service levels for multiple building end-uses, including heating, cooling and electricity. Given an individual microgrid's hourly energy requirements, available technologies and the economic environment as defined by tariff structure, DER-CAM finds the economically or environmentally optimal combination of equipment to install and an optimal schedule to operate it [3], [4].</p>