$80 M project to enhance the US power grid
US: Researchers will launch new projects to enhance the reliability and resilience of the US national power grid as part of a nationwide project worth $80 M.
US: Researchers will launch new projects to enhance the reliability and resilience of the US national power grid as part of a nationwide project worth $80 M.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers will lead two new projects and support seven more to enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s power grid as part of the US Department of Energy’s 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call.
DOE announced funding of approximately $80 M over three years to fund 23 projects across the country. ORNL is expected to receive approximately $10 M of available funding to support the nine projects on which it collaborates.
This latest round builds upon two previous solicitations released in 2016 and 2017 with a continued focus on reliability and resilience by the Grid Modernization Initiative. GMI is a crosscutting effort within DOE that focuses on public and private partnerships to develop new tools and technologies that measure, analyse, predict, protect, and control the grid of the future. This solicitation is focused on developing a portfolio of projects in resilience modelling, energy storage and system flexibility, advanced sensors and data analytics, institutional support and analysis, cyber-physical security, and generation.
The research brings together scientists from DOE’s national labs with industry and university partners to develop efficient, cost-effective solutions to harden the grid against disruption and to make it more resilient when events occur. The projects address challenges across the fully integrated energy network, from power generation, to transmission across vast distances, to the local distribution of electricity by utilities.
Source: Sci Tech Eruopa