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NREL / OCHRE

A Python-based building energy modeling (BEM) tool designed to model flexible loads in residential buildings
https://www.nrel.gov/grid/ochre.html
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Shared EV charging? #62

Open jmaguire1 opened 11 months ago

jmaguire1 commented 11 months ago

For the AC3 project, we're looking into a central shared EV charger. This would require us to add EV schedules not for residential, but for something much closer to a commercial location. I THINK EVI-pro has the data to do that? If it does, how much effort do you think this would be (and would you have time if I had a task number) @mnblonsky?

mnblonsky commented 11 months ago

I think there's been a substantial amount of research on this topic already. I think we'd need to meet with some people in the EV group to see what they recommend. I imagine there's an existing tool out there already, and maybe it makes sense to integrate with it, but not develop this from scratch in OCHRE.

jmaguire1 commented 11 months ago

100% lets not develop it from scratch. I was wondering more if you knew if EVI-pro already included the data we need, or if we need to reach out to someone in vehicles. If it's the latter I'm open to suggestions, I know one of the people we worked with last time left but maybe you better remember the contacts we had?

mnblonsky commented 11 months ago

I think we need to reach out to someone. There is data in EVI-pro, but it gets complicated when you have overlapping charging events and only a few chargers. My guess is they have more sophisticated data and models. I could ask Brennan or Nadia or Elaine, I think they'd be able to help with this.