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Analysis of background distributions of metals in the soil at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Description: As part of its Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action Program (CAP), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Environmental Restoration Program conducted an evaluation of naturally occurring metals in soils at the facility. The purpose of the evaluation was to provide a basis for determining if soils at specific locations contained elevated concentrations of metals relative to ambient conditions. Ambient conditions (sometimes referred to as 'local background') a… more
Date: March 15, 2009
Creator: Diamond, David; Baskin, David; Brown, Dennis; Lund, Loren; Najita, Julie & Javandel, Iraj
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Open Automated Demand Response in Wastewater Treatment Facilities in California -- Phase I Report

Description: This report summarizes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory?s research to date in characterizing energy efficiency and automated demand response opportunities for wastewater treatment facilities in California. The report describes the characteristics of wastewater treatment facilities, the nature of the wastewater stream, energy use and demand, as well as details of the wastewater treatment process. It also discusses control systems and energy efficiency and automated demand response oppor… more
Date: April 1, 2009
Creator: Lekov, Alex; Thompson, Lisa; McKane, Aimee; Song, Katherine & Piette, Mary Ann
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Added Value of Reliability to a Microgrid: Simulations of Three California Buildings

Description: The Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model is used to estimate the value an Oakland nursing home, a Riverside high school, and a Sunnyvale data center would need to put on higher electricity service reliability for them to adopt a Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions Microgrid (CM) based on economics alone. A fraction of each building's load is deemed critical based on its mission, and the added cost of CM capability to meet it added to on-site generation optio… more
Date: May 7, 2009
Creator: Marnay, Chris; Lai, Judy; Stadler, Michael & Siddiqui, Afzal
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Rate Analysis of Two Photovoltaic Systems in San Diego

Description: Analysts have found increasing evidence that rate structure has impacts on the economics of solar systems. This paper uses 2007 15-minute interval photovoltaic (PV) system and load data from two San Diego City water treatment facilities to illustrate impacts of different rate designs. The comparison is based on rates available in San Diego at the time of data collection and include proportionately small to large demand charges (relative to volumetric consumption), and varying on- and off- peak … more
Date: July 1, 2009
Creator: Doris, E.; Ong, S. & Van Geet, O.
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Drought resilience of the California Central Valley surface-groundwater-conveyance system

Description: A series of drought simulations were performed for the California Central Valley using computer applications developed by the California Department of Water Resources and historical datasets representing a range of droughts from mild to severe for time periods lasting up to 60 years. Land use, agricultural cropping patterns, and water demand were held fixed at the 2003 level and water supply was decreased by amounts ranging between 25 and 50%, representing light to severe drought types. Impacts… more
Date: May 15, 2009
Creator: Miller, N. L.; Dale, L. L.; Brush, C.; Vicuna, S.; Kadir, T. N.; Dogrul, E. C. et al.
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Observed 1970-2005 cooling of summer daytime temperatures in coastal California

Description: The study evaluated 1948-2004 summer (JJA) mean monthly air temperatures for two California air basins: SoCAB and SFBA. The study focuses on the more rapid post-1970 warming period, and its daily T{sub min} and T{sub max} values were used to produce average monthly values and spatial distributions of trends for each air basins. Additional analyses included T{sub D} values at two NWS sites, SSTs, NCEP reanalysis sea-level pressures, and GCM T{sub ave}-values. Results for all California COOP site… more
Date: May 15, 2009
Creator: Lebassi, B.; Gonzalez, J.; Fabris, D.; Maurer, E.; Miller, N.; Milesi, C. et al.
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Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)

Description: The development of the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification, also known as OpenADR or Open Auto-DR, began in 2002 following the California electricity crisis. The work has been carried out by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This specification describes an open standards-based communications data model designed to facilitate sending and receiving demand response price and reliability signals from a util… more
Date: February 28, 2009
Creator: Piette, Mary Ann; Ghatikar, Girish; Kiliccote, Sila; Koch, Ed; Hennage, Dan; Palensky, Peter et al.
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Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass in Light and Heavy Mass Commercial Buildings

Description: The potential for utilizing building thermal mass for load shifting and peak demand reduction has been demonstrated in a number of simulation, laboratory, and field studies. This project studied the potential of pre-cooling and demand limiting in a heavy mass and a light mass building in the Bay Area of California. The conclusion of the work to date is that pre-cooling has the potential to improve the demand responsiveness of commercial buildings while maintaining acceptable comfort conditions.… more
Date: May 1, 2009
Creator: Xu, Peng & Zagreus, Leah
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Hoopa Valley Small Scale Hydroelectric Feasibility Project

Description: This study considered assessing the feasibility of developing small scale hydro-electric power from seven major tributaries within the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation of Northern California (http://www.hoopa-nsn.gov/). This study pursued the assessment of seven major tributaries of the Reservation that flow into the Trinity River. The feasibility of hydropower on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation has real potential for development and many alternative options for project locations, designs, o… more
Date: March 22, 2009
Creator: Miller, Curtis
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PEAT ACCRETION HISTORIES DURING THE PAST 6000 YEARS IN MARSHES OF THE SACRAMENTO - SAN JOAQUIN DELTA, CALIFORNIA, USA

Description: Peat cores were collected in 4 remnant marsh islands and 4 drained, farmed islands throughout the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta of California in order to characterize the peat accretion history of this region. Radiocarbon age determination of marsh macrofossils at both marsh and farmed islands showed that marshes in the central and western Delta started forming between 6030 and 6790 cal yr BP. Age-depth models for three marshes were constructed using cubic smooth spline regression models. The … more
Date: July 20, 2009
Creator: Drexler, J Z; de Fontaine, C S & Brown, T A
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Renewable Electricity Benefits Quantification Methodology: A Request for Technical Assistance from the California Public Utilities Commission

Description: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) requested assistance in identifying methodological alternatives for quantifying the benefits of renewable electricity. The context is the CPUC's analysis of a 33% renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in California--one element of California's Climate Change Scoping Plan. The information would be used to support development of an analytic plan to augment the cost analysis of this RPS (which recently was completed). NREL has responded to this reques… more
Date: July 1, 2009
Creator: Mosey, G. & Vimmerstedt, L.
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DOE Joint Genome Institute 2008 Progress Report

Description: While initially a virtual institute, the driving force behind the creation of the DOE Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, California in the Fall of 1999 was the Department of Energy's commitment to sequencing the human genome. With the publication in 2004 of a trio of manuscripts describing the finished 'DOE Human Chromosomes', the Institute successfully completed its human genome mission. In the time between the creation of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and comp… more
Date: March 12, 2009
Creator: Gilbert, David
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Benefits from flywheel energy storage for area regulation in California - demonstration results : a study for the DOE Energy Storage Systems program.

Description: This report documents a high-level analysis of the benefit and cost for flywheel energy storage used to provide area regulation for the electricity supply and transmission system in California. Area regulation is an 'ancillary service' needed for a reliable and stable regional electricity grid. The analysis was based on results from a demonstration, in California, of flywheel energy storage developed by Beacon Power Corporation (the system's manufacturer). Demonstrated was flywheel storage syst… more
Date: October 1, 2009
Creator: Eyer, James M. (Distributed Utility Associates, Livermore, CA)
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NAWIG News: The Quarterly Newsletter of the Native American Wind Interest Group, Fall 2009

Description: As part of its Native American outreach, DOE's Wind Powering America program has initiated a NAWIG newsletter to present Native American wind information, including projects, interviews with pioneers, issues, WPA activities, and related events. It is our hope that this newsletter will both inform and elicit comments and input on wind development in Indian Country. This issue profiles the Campo Band Wind Project in California and a feature on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe's plans for a 100- to … more
Date: September 1, 2009
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Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Automated Demand Response in Industrial Refrigerated Warehouses in California

Description: This report summarizes the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's research to date in characterizing energy efficiency and open automated demand response opportunities for industrial refrigerated warehouses in California. The report describes refrigerated warehouses characteristics, energy use and demand, and control systems. It also discusses energy efficiency and open automated demand response opportunities and provides analysis results from three demand response studies. In addition, severa… more
Date: May 11, 2009
Creator: Lekov, Alex; Thompson, Lisa; McKane, Aimee; Rockoff, Alexandra & Piette, Mary Ann
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Sandia National Laboratories, California Air Quality Program annual report.

Description: The annual program report provides detailed information about all aspects of the SNL/CA Air Quality Program. It functions as supporting documentation to the SNL/CA Environmental Management System Program Manual. The program report describes the activities undertaken during the past year, and activities planned in future years to implement the Air Quality Program, one of six programs that supports environmental management at SNL/CA.
Date: June 1, 2009
Creator: Gardizi, Leslee P. & Smith, Richard (ERM, Walnut Creek, CA)
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Automated Demand Response: The Missing Link in the Electricity Value Chain

Description: In 2006, the Public Interest Energy Research Program (PIER) Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory initiated research into Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) applications in California industry. The goal is to improve electric grid reliability and lower electricity use during periods of peak demand. The purpose of this research is to begin to define the relationship among a portfolio of actions that industrial facilities can undertake relative to their … more
Date: August 1, 2009
Creator: McKane, Aimee; Rhyne, Ivin; Lekov, Alex; Thompson, Lisa & Piette, MaryAnn
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Greenhouse Gas Abatement with Distributed Generation in California's Commercial Buildings

Description: The motivation and objective of this research is to determine the role of distributed generation (DG) in greenhouse gas reductions by: (1) applying the Distributed Energy Resources Customer Adoption Model (DER-CAM); (2) using the California Commercial End-Use Survey (CEUS) database for commercial buildings; (3) selecting buildings with electric peak loads between 100 kW and 5 MW; (4) considering fuel cells, micro-turbines, internal combustion engines, gas turbines with waste heat utilization, s… more
Date: September 1, 2009
Creator: Marnay, Chris; Stadler, Michael; Lipman, Tim; Lai, Judy; Cardoso, Goncalo & Megel, Olivier
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Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass in Large Commercial Buildings in a California Hot Climate Zone

Description: The potential for using building thermal mass for load shifting and peak energy demand reduction has been demonstrated in a number of simulation, laboratory, and field studies. Previous Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research has demonstrated that the approach is very effective in cool and moderately warm climate conditions (California Climate Zones 2-4). However, this method had not been tested in hotter climate zones. This project studied the potential of pre-cooling the building early… more
Date: June 1, 2009
Creator: Xu, Peng; Yin, Rongxin; Brown, Carrie & Kim, DongEun
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Demonstration of Datacenter Automation Software and Hardware (DASH) at the California Franchise Tax Board

Description: Control software and wireless sensors designed for closed-loop, monitoring and control of IT equipment's inlet air temperatures in datacenters were evaluated and tested while other datacenter cooling best practices were implemented. The controls software and hardware along with each best practice were installed sequentially and evaluated using a measurement and verification procedure between each measure. The results show that the overall project eliminates 475,239 kWh per year, which is 21.3pe… more
Date: December 18, 2009
Creator: Bell, Geoffrey C. & Federspiel, Clifford
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