The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) held a virtual meeting on Monday, October 30, from 2:30 – 3:30 PM ET to highlight details of a new test bed resource in development. Attendees shared feedback on the resource design and detailed which features and information they would find beneficial, such as filters, viewing options, and overall format.
This new tool addresses the need to rapidly validate and deploy new electric grid technology by simulating a real-world power grid environment. DOE’s Office of Electricity’s Applied Grid Transformation Solutions (AGTS) program aims to validate techno-socio-economic performance of new grid technologies in a controlled integrated environment, optimize grid integrated technology portfolio operations, reduce technical risk in deployment, inform investment decisions, directly connect performance results to stakeholder use cases, and build on previous DOE device and integrated system projects. Through controlled and real-world pilot demonstrations, AGTS will provide a choice of technology solutions to decision-makers. By working with stakeholders to understand the grid’s rapidly evolving demands and showing how advanced grid hardware and software tools meet that evolution, the power sector will be better positioned to meet the aggressive goals, address the customer demands, and protect against extreme conditions of the future power system.
The electric grid test beds allow these new technologies to be safely evaluated, giving industry the confidence to move ahead with adoption and deployment. With industry buy-in for advanced grid controls, DOE moves ahead in its aim to meet the Administration’s goals of 100% carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and net zero emissions by 2050.