On May 19 and May 20, DOE’s Office of Electricity (OE) hosted a Transmission Innovation Symposium focused on Modernizing the U.S. Power Grid.
New and returning members of the Electricity Advisory Committee will advise on electricity resilience, reliability, security, interdependencies, and policy issues.

Ten “Connected Communities” Will Equip More than 7,000 Buildings with Smart Controls, Sensors, and Analytics to Reduce Energy Use, Costs, and Emissions
LPO loan guarantees can potentially be used to finance projects that support the Long Duration Storage Shot Summit, which is focused on mapping out strategies to reducing the cost of long duration energy storage by 90% within the decade.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today announcing Tracey A. LeBeau as Administrator and CEO of Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
America is facing an era of rapid change along the entire energy system as we Integrate more renewables and work to move affordable, reliable, and secure electricity to where It Is needed most.

Four Projects Will Develop and Deploy Technologies to Address the Growing and Severe Threat of Wildfires to the Electric Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced over $30 million in funding, matched by over $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects supported by the Office of Technology Transitions Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF).
Learn about the machines and tools that can collect, analyze, and decode enormous amounts of data.

DOE’s Second Energy Earthshot – Long Duration Storage Shot – Aims to Accelerate Breakthroughs in Grid Storage, Make Clean Energy Available Anytime, Anywhere