Examples Of Our Work
Designing first-of-a-kind, proof-of-concept projects, Olivine has developed unique approaches, especially relating to behind-the-meter challenges. See some of our work.Richmond Advanced Energy Community
Olivine is working with the City of Richmond to develop an Energy Assurance Plan and design a Distributed Energy Resource (DER) program to increase energy resiliency, lower energy costs and open new revenue streams for the community. In coordination with a diverse stakeholder group of community members, we are cataloging energy resources, identifying risks to energy supply and developing DER deployments to increase energy resiliency throughout the community. Olivine is also working with Marin Clean Energy (MCE) and Pacific Gas and Electric to develop a DER program that will open new value streams for city residents by aggregating community DERs for participation in retail programs and wholesale markets for demand response. This program has a special emphasis on developing opportunities for low-income residents. It is funded through an Advanced Energy Community grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC) and is being delivered in partnership with the ZNE Alliance.
Power Response Program
The Clean Power Alliance (CPA) Power Response -an Olivine Community Program offers incentives to customers with smart thermostats, energy storage systems and electric vehicle chargers to reduce energy demand during peak times. The program is available to residential, small and medium businesses (SMB), municipal and large commercial and industrial (C&I) customers in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The program has an emphasis on engaging low-income and disadvantaged community (DAC) customers and provides higher economic incentives to these underserved customers. The program leverages the Olivine technology suite for implementation, including the multilingual Olivine Community web and mobile app, DER Platform, and comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) and program performance reporting tools. The program helps customers earn money and reduce their energy costs and allows CPA to tap into clean energy resources and contribute to grid resiliency.
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Olivine Community: Fresno Energy Program
Olivine and PG&E are partnering on a innovative pilot program focused on bringing economic benefits of behavioral demand response to a targeted disadvantaged community (DAC) in Fresno, California.The program pays attractive incentives to evaluate energy usage and willingness and ability of DAC residents to reduce or shift load in response to grid and environmental signals. The households enroll in the program using the bilingual Olivine Community web and mobile app. The app also helps customers stay engaged in the program by helping them visualize home electricity use, receive event notifications and understand the positive impacts of their energy saving actions. The findings from this program will provide unique insight on the opportunities and barriers of low-income and disadvantaged communities to reduce demand on the electric grid during peak times. At scale, the successful implementation of such programs could reduce distribution load and possibly eliminate the need for dispatch and cycling of polluting peaking plants – typically located within DACs.
Excess Supply Project
Las Positas Community College Microgrid
Olivine and partners are working to develop a microgrid at the Las Positas Community College campus in Livermore as well as an economic model that incorporates both revenue from grid services with demand charge management. Olivine will integrate its technology platform with Geli solutions to demonstrate market interactions in a simulation environment and prove that the economic model works. This project is funded through an EPIC grant from the California Energy Commission.
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Community Solar
This collaborative effort to grow markets for community shared solar is funded by SunShot Market Pathways program. The High-Value Integrated Community Solar Project, led by the San Francisco-area energy consulting and analytics firm Extensible Energy, LLC, is engaging the Sacramento (California) Municipal Utility District (SMUD), Albuquerque, New Mexico-based PNM, and other utilities nationwide in the development and build-out of a new business model for community solar. Olivine is supporting technical, marketing, and utility-industry expertise.
Lancaster Advanced Energy Community
Olivine is working with the City of Lancaster and Lancaster Choice Energy to develop tools and new business models for the widespread deployment of Distributed Energy Resources to help achieve aggressive targets for the City to become 100% Zero Net Energy (ZNE) by 2020. Olivine is developing a Community DER Valuation Framework to determine the value of DERs to inform cost-effective resource deployments throughout the community. These deployments include both those pursued directly by the City and other deployments for local businesses and residents. This work is funded through an Advanced Energy Community grant by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and is being delivered in partnership with the ZNE Alliance.
Supply-side Pilot Project
iCharge Forward Pilot Project
Partnering with BMW’s electric (EV) division, Olivine is supporting a program to provide rebates to BMW customers for allowing their EV batteries to be used during peak times for grid services. This project will help determine parameters for managed charging versus V2G charging business models. Olivine provides the aggregation, evaluation, integration and interface between the EVSE,Pacific Gas and Electric, and CAISO.