OE News
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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.December 12, 2024 -
Projects selected will receive more than $20 million for critical power equipment advancements.December 3, 2024 -
The 2024 Electricity Advisory Committee is named.October 1, 2024 -
One focuses on high-voltage direct current lines, the other addresses cascading grid failuresSeptember 18, 2024 -
Developments will address grid reliability, long duration energy storage, and storage manufacturingAugust 7, 2024 -
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.July 17, 2024 -
To supply power to homes and businesses, electric utilities and system operators work around the clock to balance supply of electricity with demand.July 8, 2024 -
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.March 26, 2024
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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.October 26, 2023 -
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) Office of Electricity (OE) today announced the three Phase 2 winning teams of the American-Made Digitizing Utilities Prize.September 25, 2023
OE Blog
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Like many university campuses around the country, the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus uses a microgrid to provide power to its facilities.January 13, 2025 -
The blog describes a new software tool developed by PNNL and funded by OE that streamlines the power plant evaluation process.December 17, 2024 -
DOE's 10th CyberForce Competition in 2024 in St. Charles showcased the ingenuity of cybersecurity professionals. With 100, 5-person teams, the competition brought college students and volunteers together to tackle electric grid cybersecurity challenges.December 17, 2024 -
Study will help inform industry and prepare for growing electricity demandDecember 5, 2024 -
Through the Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP), the Office of Electricity (OE) is thrilled to sponsor two new promising entrepreneurs with game-changing energy storage and electric grid innovations.November 12, 2024 -
The Office of Electricity (OE) is launching a program, the Community Microgrid Assistance Partnership (C-MAP), to provide support to underserved and Indigenous communities in remote, rural, and islanded regions.October 4, 2024 -
As a national first, GSL brings together atoms-to-systems capabilities that will help the storage industry build safer, lower-cost, higher-performance, and longer duration energy storage systems.September 23, 2024 -
The Department of Energy’s (DOE’S) Office of Electricity (OE) partnered with the Indian government’s Department of Science and Technology to sponsor a joint US-India project on advanced electric distribution systems.August 28, 2024 -
Promotion of a new report on Long Duration Energy Storage called Achieving the Promise of Low Cost Long Duration Energy Storage.August 6, 2024 -
The U.S. has pledged to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Port electrification will play a major role in accomplishing this.July 18, 2024