Smart buildings and the smart grid have many mutual advantages for improving their direct interaction through greater interoperability. As buildings and their subsystems become smarter, more network-aware, and better able to adapt in real time, opportunities to provide substantial benefit to smart grid operators multiply. This convergence, through the deployment of transactive energy systems, has great potential to help the grid balance generation with load, optimize generation, and defer infrastructure investment through peak load shaving. Building owners, integrators, and design engineers need more interoperability between the various systems and components. This white paper introduces key concepts, values, and opportunities to all stakeholders to support better understanding and provide direction for making a building a transactive energy hub.
