The Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) Initiative was launched in 2018 to explore opportunities to remake buildings into flexible energy resources – combining energy efficiency and demand flexibility with smart technologies and communications to deliver greater affordability, comfort, productivity, and performance to America’s homes ...

May 18, 2021 · The Roadmap outlines DOE’s national goal to triple the energy efficiency and demand flexibility of the buildings sector by 2030, relative to 2020 levels. It also defines technology attributes, integration considerations, and barriers to achieving the full potential, adoption and deployment of GEB.

What is a grid-interactive eficient building (GEB)? Today, behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs)—including energy eficiency, demand response, solar PV, EVs, and battery storage—are typically valued, scheduled, implemented, and managed separately. as the grid.

DOE has established a goal of tripling energy efficiency and demand flexibility in residential and commercial buildings by 2030, relative to 2020 levels. Define GEB measures to represent the best commercially available technology for major building end-uses.

NASEO and NARUC are partnered with DOE and the National Laboratories to provide demand flexibility/GEB-related technical assistance (TA) to Working Group states. TA focus areas have included state and public buildings, pilot projects, state and regional GEB/DF potential, and valuation of GEB/DF grid services.

GEB Technical Report Series is intentionally focused on technological capabilities and the potential of residential and commercial buildings to enable and deliver grid services.

DOE, Sourcing Distributed Energy Resources for Distributed Grid Services (December 2024) - examines the evolving role of DERs including EV charging to provide grid services for managing local distribution needs affordably.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) national GEB vision is to triple energy efficiency and demand flexibility2 (DF) of the buildings sector by 2030 relative to 2020 levels (DOE 2021). Building codes represent standard design practice in the construction industry and continually evolve to include advanced technologies and innovative practices.

These reports evaluate state-of-the-art and emerging building technologies that have significant potential to provide grid services. The reports also identify major research challenges and gaps facing the technologies as well as opportunities for technology-specific R&D.

DOE’s GEB vision seeks to triple energy efficiency and demand flexibility of the buildings sector between 2020 and 2030. providing a market signal to companies and investors to develop products and processes that align buildings with the transition toward clean economic growth.