DOE awarding $26 M to clean energy projects
USA, Washington, DC: The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 M to fund projects conclusively showing that electricity grid can reliably run with DER.
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USA, Washington, DC: The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 M to fund projects conclusively showing that electricity grid can reliably run with DER.
The clean distributed energy resources (DER) include solar, wind, energy storage, and other.
Using money from the infrastructure law, the new program called Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability Demonstration launched on August 2. DOE said the demonstration projects will provide data to underscore how President Biden’s goal of 100 % clean electricity by 2030 can be achieved while supporting grid reliability. Up to 10 projects will receive funding.
Grid services, which largely involves maintaining the voltage and frequency stability, are critical to maintain reliability. Because new wind and solar generation are interfaced with the grid through power electronic inverters, they have different characteristics and dynamics than traditional sources of generation that currently supply these services. Demonstrating that a grid fully powered by inverter-based resources is as reliable or more reliable at providing these services is a key barrier to the clean energy transition.
Projects in this funding opportunity will support the development of controls and methods for inverter-based resources like solar and wind to provide the same grid services as traditional generation. The research activities resulting from this funding opportunity will help increase the reliability of energy systems, which will help meet the Biden administration’s goals for achieving a decarbonised electricity sector by 2035.
Source: Smart Energy International
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