Beneficial and Equitable Electrification Home Energy Innovation Experiment (BEEHIvE)
The BEE Home Innovation Experiment (BEEHIvE) investigates how electrification can
be applied to reduce emissions and energy costs and support integration of higher
levels of renewable energy without hurting the overall stability of the grid. The
BEEHIvE is designed to provide real-life data on cold climate performance of EVs and
heat pumps. It also provides a test bed for control strategies and assessing grid
interactions. A variety of dispatch strategies could be configured, tested and used
for modeling without the negative impacts on people and higher costs that rural deployment
could incur in the early stages.
