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Mission-critical commercial and military applications have extremely high uptime requirements and tight deployment space constraints. Advanced small nuclear reactors, packaged as compact units and deployed in microgrids, present a tantalizing option to meet these constraints and advance many of our nation’s priorities.
Microgrids offer a promising solution to enable the fast, reliable, and affordable build-out of data centers with shorter timelines relative to distribution/transmission grid expansion.
Microgrids have emerged as a promising part of the solution to the challenges of increasing electricity costs, power outages and increasing loads.
The Office of Electricity’s Microgrid Research and Development Program shows that well-designed microgrids can provide both the flexibility in deployment and usability through a “Microgrid Building Block” concept.
The power grid needs innovative ways to add additional energy production and control capabilities to the power system. The Office of Electricity is advancing one such approach with microgrid systems.