Alabama Power Smart Neighborhood: Reynolds Landing
UPDATED: 11/13/2023
Project Name:
Alabama Power Smart Neighborhood (Reynolds Landing)
Connected Neighborhoods Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Project Leader(s): Southern Company and ORNL
Partner(s):
Research partners: Alabama Power, Southern Company, ORNL, DOE, EPRI
Vendor partners: Signature Homes, Carrier, Rheem, Vivint
Stage of Completion: Completed
Construction Type: New construction
Building Type: Single-family homes
Total Number of Units Targeted: 62
Total Number of Units Completed: 62
Tenant Structure: Owner-occupied
Target Audience: Utility, building operator, building occupants
Full/Partial Electrification: Partial
Existing Heating Fuel Type: N/A
End Uses Electrified: Space heating and cooling, water heating, cooking, clothes drying
Specific electric appliances installed: Variable capacity heat pump, induction range, hybrid heat pump water heater, electric clothes dryer
Total Project Funding: Not able to disclose
Amount or % of Project Cost Covered per unit: Not able to disclose
Source of Funding: Southern Company, DOE-BTO
Motivation for electrification: The development aims to identify how accessing and modulating the flexibility in building loads can enable grid services and improve energy efficiency while ensuring comfort for building occupants. A utility-owned grid-connected microgrid powers buildings inside the neighborhood. Takeaways include understanding how responsive homes can be to energy use variations and pricing. From the utility perspective, the value proposition and focus was on residential electrification, community-scale distributed generation and energy efficiency. Determining the role and impact of distributed energy resources was also part of the scope.
Additional Measures Implemented: Cloud-based home energy management system, centralized microgrid, triple pane low-e windows, energy recovery ventilator, radiant barrier, insulation, smart home control panel, smart refrigerator
Workforce Development/Green Jobs Component: PhD students mentored and worked on the data for the project as well as university internships
Next steps: Project is completed. Published findings and lessons learned and conducted presentations on the project.
Source: Project description and summary
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