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resource would cause it to react (e.g., the thermostat set point
would be adjusted up or down).
Another implementation, one that closely models the
previous description of a TES, was the basis for the Pacific
Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration project (PNWSGD)
2010-2015. This was a very large project involving system
operator Bonneville Power Administration and 11 distribution utilities across five states and 60,000 customers in the
Northwest. Some of the resources involved included residential and commercial
demand response, electric
Transactive energy
vehicle charging, largesystems should enable
scale substation battery
a broad range of
installations, and renewable generation.
operational, business,
The PNWSGD project
regulatory, and
successfully demonstrated a
incentive models
TES made up of a large-scale
to be supported by
distributed transactive agent
network exchanging costfuture systems.
based economic value signals to address multiple
concurrent objectives, including intermittent wind integration,
peak smoothing/shifting, unplanned event response (resilience),
and constrained resources. Today, there are many TES projects
in progress using a variety of designs and addressing many different objectives. Utilities have also started to release requests
for information and requests for proposals for TES-based solutions to specific problems.

Conclusion
TESs are a scalable, flexible approach to designing and
implementing efficient, reliable, and resilient electrification
systems, both large and small scale. They can be implemented within a single building or home, across a campus, or
across an entire region, as shown by previous demonstrations and current projects. Because of their ability to address
both interoperability issues and optimization and management issues, they're an important technique for future electrification designs and will become even more practical as
the process of understanding and assigning value to flexible
DER and system objectives (both business and operational)
matures. Ultimately, they should enable a broad range of
operational, business, regulatory, and incentive models to be
supported by future systems.

Biography
Ron Ambrosio (rfa@us.ibm.com) is an IBM Distinguished
Engineer and chief technology officer of smarter energy
research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York.
He is a founding member and chair emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council, and he also served as chair of the
Smart Grid Interoperability Panel Architecture Committee
for its first five years.



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