Troy Harvey
PassiveLogic | CEO
Speaker
Track H: Decarbonization and Electrification
Session H2: Microgrids and Renewables
September 26, 2024 | 10:00 am - 10:30 am
Enabling a Flexible Grid through Autonomous Buildings
In this talk, Troy Harvey, CEO and founder of PassiveLogic, will explore the opportunity of
autonomous buildings on energy efficiency and grid resiliency: reducing peak loads, flattening demand curves, and contributing to sustainability goals—all while maintaining occupant comfort and operational needs. Due to increasing load demands, our modern electricity grid is at a crossroad, requiring unprecedented flexibility and responsiveness keep up. To resolve this tension, our buildings need to transform into active agents, capable of both intelligently managing their own energy demands and communicating with the grid and other buildings to ensure stability and efficiency.
Following the path laid out by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for autonomous
driving, Troy architected the path for autonomous buildings. In this session, Troy will cover (1) the path towards autonomous buildings (2) why autonomous buildings are foundation to achieving grid-interactive buildings and (3) the importance of this technology for meeting existing and emerging legal efficiency requirements. Attendees will leave with actionable insights on the role of autonomous buildings in energy grid evolution.
Speaker Bio
Troy Harvey is the CEO, co-founder, and chief product architect of PassiveLogic, creator of the world’s first fully autonomous platform for buildings. As a technical CEO, Troy has been the driving force behind the vision of the PassiveLogic platform since its inception, guiding the design direction of each piece of the ecosystem to operate seamlessly. This includes his work on the Quantum Digital Twin Standard — a physics-based ontology for next-generation control and AI that provides the foundation for autonomous systems — as well as directing hardware design and guidance on software implementation.
