Lead Performer: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Richland, WA
September 13, 2017
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Lead Performer: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Richland, WA
Partners:
-- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – Berkeley, CA
-- Argonne National Laboratory – Argonne, IL
-- National Laboratory of the Rockies – Golden, CO
-- Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) – Washington, DC
-- National Institute of Standards and Technology – Gaithersburg, MD
-- GridWise Architecture Council – Richland, WA
-- Electric Power Research Institute – Palo Alto, CA
-- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – New York City, NY
-- International Electrotechnical Commission – Worcester, MA
-- Industrial Internet Consortium – Needham, MA
-- General Services Administration – Washington, DC
-- ENERGY STAR – Washington, DC
-- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Washington, DC
-- Software Engineering Institute – Carnegie Mellon University – Pittsburgh, PA
-- SAE International – Warrendale, PA
-- LonMark International – Santa Clara, CA
-- National Electrical Manufacturing Association – Rosslyn, VA
-- ASHRAE – Atlanta, GA
-- Consumer Technology Association – Arlington, VA
DOE Total Funding: $3,000,000 (funding is a joint CMEI / OE initiative, BTO funds contribute to total)
Project Term: January 2016 – March 2019
Funding Type: DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) Lab Call
Project Objective
As a part of the Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Initiative, the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium projects represents a comprehensive portfolio of critical research and development in advanced storage systems, clean energy integration, standards and test procedures, and a number of other key grid modernization areas.
Energy infrastructure should be flexible enough to accommodate change in response to new, expected, or unexpected internal or external system drivers. This collaboration effort with industry articulates general interoperability requirements along with methodologies and tools for simplifying the integration and cyber-secure interaction among the various devices and systems that constitute the electric power grid. This includes related end-use systems such as buildings, electric vehicles, and distributed energy resources.
The mission of this project is to establish a strategic vision of interoperability for grid modernization with implementation illustrations. The objectives:
- Establish a strategic vision for interoperability
- Measure the state of interoperability in technical domains
- Identify gaps and roadmaps
- Ensure industry engagement
Project Impact
This project will align stakeholders on a strategic vision for devices and systems integration and develop measures and tools to support inerrability. Increased interoperability will help reduce the cost and effort for system integration and improve grid performance, efficiency, and security.
Contacts
DOE Technology Manager: Marina Sofos
Lead Performer: Steve Widergren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory