IEEE Electrification Magazine - December 2016 - 1

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VOL. 4, NO. 4

DECEMBER 2016

ISSN 2325-5987

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MAGAZINE

F E AT U R E S

Transactive
Home Energy
Management Systems

Providing grid services
from smart buildings.

The impact of their
proliferation on the
electric grid.

Annabelle Pratt, Dheepak
Krishnamurthy, Mark Ruth,
Hongyu Wu, Monte Lunacek,
and Paul Vaynshenk

Using a Transactive
Energy Framework
Farrokh Rahimi and Ali Ipakchi

Evaluating Transactive
Systems
Historical and current
U.S. DOE research and
development activities.

VOLTTRON

Donald J. Hammerstrom,
Steven E. Widergren,
and Christopher Irwin

An open-source software
platform of the future.

Srinivas Katipamula, Jereme Haack,
Bora Akyol, George Hernandez,
and Joseph Hagerman

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Promoting Sustainable Forestry

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MELE.2016.2614239

Cover image: Once we have communications and
distributed capabilities to modernizing our electrical infrastructure, we need a means to engage and
control diverse utility-owned and third-party assets
in a sustainable and reliable manner. Transactive
energy is a means to accomplish this, using value
as a common language to combine economic and
control techniques, and to align value streams for
all parties by incenting actively managed systems
that can align their behavior with the needs of the
rest of the system.

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