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Mission
The Office of Electricity leads the Department of Energy’s research, development, and demonstration programs to strengthen and modernize our nation’s power grid so that our nation maintains a reliable, resilient, and secure electricity delivery infrastructure.
Vision
Working closely with industry and other stakeholders, we drive technological and operational advancements that ensure that every American home and business has reliable access to affordable energy, and that the U.S. sustains its global leadership in the clean energy transformation.
OE drives innovation to strengthen, improve, and transform our electricity delivery system to reliably power homes, industry, and communities. OE leverages its expertise in cutting-edge research, system-level analyses, and partnerships with energy transition stakeholders to develop advanced systems and technologies that meet today's needs and are ready for tomorrow's challenges.
Areas of Focus
Grid Systems and Components
Modernizing the U.S. electricity delivery system's hardware components, such as distribution and large power transformers, and grid systems, including microgrids.
Grid Enhancing Technologies
Microgrids
Transformer Resilience
Energy Storage
Improving the safety, reliability, and performance of energy storage, while making it as cost-effective as possible.
Energy Storage R&DD
Energy Storage Grand Challenge
Grid Storage Launchpad
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Leadership
Resources
Learn how the CMAP supports microgrid development in electrically isolated communities.
DOE is helping policymakers, regulators, utilities, and stakeholders address challenges by coordinating best practices to enable the use of distributed energy resources. All of this effort is to ensure a reliable, resilient, secure and affordable power grid.
Find out how electricity works and watch our Electricity 101 videos and learn about OE's role in advancing the research and development to deliver that electricity to homes and businesses.
Get informed about grid modernization through GridTalk podcasts with leading electricity industry innovators, Voices of Experiences presentations on new utility programs, and a a library of resources.
Read OE's research reports and other documents.
Learn how OE uses expert feedback to improve program quality, and the peer reviews to improve project efforts.
The U.S. electric grid test bed inventory aims to capture and summarize information and capabilities available at domestic, publicly accessible facilities (“test beds”) that perform testing, evaluation, validation, and certification of transmission and distribution (T&D) grid technologies.
Contact Us
Office of Electricity
Office of Electricity
U.S. Department of Energy
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585