Code Green Energy Innovation Lab

BIF and the Santa Fe Innovation Park (SFIP) have initiated efforts to create a real world laboratory to accelerate the development of new alternative energy and energy conservation solutions for the home.

The Code Green Energy Innovation Lab will include a network of homes and provide stakeholders with a better understanding of how citizens utilize and manage energy in the home. Within this real world environment, the Lab will develop and test new solutions, services, and business models that increase energy conservation, advance the use of alternative energy solutions, and decrease the country's overall energy costs and carbon footprint.

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Overview

A confluence of factors is driving radical shifts in U.S. energy policy, technology, and infrastructure. It is a national imperative to support transformative initiatives, resulting in a more cost effective and sustainable energy system that increases the country's use of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency at all levels.

Over half of the country's energy use is by citizens in their homes. We must better understand energy utilization and management from the perspective of the residential user to design new systems solutions that provide consumers with the tools to better manage energy usage at home.


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Goals

BIF/SFIP's Code Green Energy Innovation Lab will:

  • Create a real world laboratory for systemic experimentation, where solutions, services and business models can be developed and tested within an integrated, and functional home energy system.
  • Explore and test new solutions for improving the energy efficiency and energy management experience of residential customers.
  • Understand the human factors most relevant to the purchase, installation and use of energy efficiency and energy management solutions and systems.
  • Leverage the Lab as a mechanism for exploring new collaborations across both the public and private sector.
  • Establish an ongoing platform for experimentation that reflects evolving customer needs and emerging market opportunities.
  • Mobilize systems change with aggressive multi-channel storytelling and network building, leveraging BIF's open innovation platform and SFIP's network of cross-sector collaborators and partners.

Collaborative Innovation

To launch the Code Green Energy Innovation Lab, BIF/SFIP proposes an initial phase of work that will establish a strong foundation of knowledge around user experience and attitudes about energy management solutions in residential environments. The partnership will use these foundational insights to create a functional Laboratory environment and generate a prioritized list of innovation opportunities to be further developed and tested within the Lab, build broad visibility for the Lab and enable systems change.

BIF and SFIP see an immediate opportunity to use their complementary approaches in partnership to establish an experience Lab in the energy management and green energy space.

The Santa Fe Innovation Park

The Santa Fe Innovation Park is an applied solutions Laboratory, focusing on complex systemic problems. SFIP relies on trans-disciplinary collaborative teams, drawn from the arts, design, and creative sector; science, technology, and engineering; private industry and finance; and the public and social sectors, to drive new approaches to important, practical challenges. In addition, the state of New Mexico has proposed a major "Green Grid" initiative, which will ultimately include several demonstration sites and residential areas along with next-generation storage, distribution, and transmission infrastructure. The Green Grid partners include Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, Public Service Corporation of New Mexico, the state's research universities, community colleges, and several municipalities.