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Nearly $18.4 million available for lower cost high-voltage direct current circuit breakers, and addressing grid and energy storage system failures.
Projects selected will receive more than $20 million for critical power equipment advancements.
The 2024 Electricity Advisory Committee is named.
One focuses on high-voltage direct current lines, the other addresses cascading grid failures
Developments will address grid reliability, long duration energy storage, and storage manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE) today announced nine of the newest winners of the inaugural $2.15 million American-Made Digitizing Utilities Prize.
To supply power to homes and businesses, electric utilities and system operators work around the clock to balance supply of electricity with demand.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity is accepting nominations through April 19, 2024, for the Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC). Nominees with strong technical knowledge and expertise within the electricity sector are preferred.
If I asked you to envision the electric grid, you would probably think of a big, complex, physical system with lots of steel, copper, and concrete: towers, wires, transformers, and power plants.
A future-ready grid requires infrastructure with the latest technology, including everything from complex devices compatible with digital technology to fundamental components. Grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) will help prepare the grid of the future.