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Distribution network design of U.S. districts in the URBANopt platform

C. Mateo T. Gómez L. De Rosa

February 2020 - May 2023

Funding entity National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), U.S. Department of Energy

Participated by National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, Ladybug Tools, University of Colorado, City of Westminster, Engie Lab, Saint-Denis


The objetive of the URBANopt Grid-Interactive Efficient Building (GEB) Modeling Toolkit, is to model efficient, connected and smart building with a portfolio of interoperable technologies that can adjust demand up or down and shift, store, or dispatch electric load in response to grid and building needs. In this project the U.S. Reference Network Model (RNM-US) is integrated into the URBANopt platform in order to design the distribution network of districts, to be able to analyze the interaction between the buildings and the distribution network, taking into account distributed energy resources.


URBANOPT-RNM-US