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Institute of Electrical Engineering of Chinese Academy of Science Visited LBNL

July 1, 2014

A delegation from the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS-IEE) visited Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) on June 26, 2014 as part of their study tour focused on the U.S. developments in renewable distributed energy and their preparation of a report on similar topic for China's National Energy Administration in its deployment of 30 microgrid pilot projects.

Lv Fang, head of the delegation, also the Section Chief of CAS-IEE as well as Secretary–General of Solar PV Committee of China Renewable Energy Society, said the report on high penetration and renewable distributed energy is expected to complete by the end of this year and submitted to the Chinese government in March 2014. She believes this report, which covers the design and application of microgrids, will provide a strong incentive for microgrid development in China and the several cities that will be selected as pilot cities.

As a host to the delegation, the China Energy Group organized several presentations by researchers from different research groups in LBNL that cover integration of photovoltaics into utility operations, demand response, microgrids, LBNL's Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies Program, as well as a field visit to the lab's Facility for Low Energy Experiments in Buildings (FLEXLAB^®). The delegation also visited the Santa Rita Jail in California to learn about a series of distributed energy resources and efficiency measures installed in the facility where the first commercial implementation of the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) microgrid technology was demonstrated, using a large-scale battery, new and legacy renewable energy sources, and a fuel cell.