Research and Professional Services

Through sponsored research grants or professional services agreements, Penn State at The Navy Yard’s energy analytics, distributed energy and building energy efficiency capabilities include:

• Collection, validation, management and analysis of building energy, benchmarking and microgrid related data
• System design, data validation, management and analysis of utility bills, whole building interval electric data, measurement and verification (M&V) systems and submetered building data
• Development and conduct of applied building energy research projects and testbeds in client-owned facilities; assessment and evaluation of energy retrofit measures in small commercial buildings
• Development of university student and workforce training curricula in the following areas:
  • Building re-tuning and energy retrofit investments
  • Design, installation and operation of distributed energy resources
• Developing ongoing summer and semester-long internship experiences for talented students interested in sustainable and efficiently operated buildings
• Distributed energy resources: performance evaluations of solar photovoltaic generation and battery storage components and systems
• Combined heat and power: design and analysis for electric microgrid, combined heat and power (CHP), distributed energy, and energy storage system opportunities