The Office of Electricity connects DOE, national labs, and the electricity industry to develop technologies that support reliability and security while reducing electricity bills and facilitating renewable energy integration.
DOE aims to meet the community needs while creating jobs and combating climate change. Projects bridge the gap between engineering prototypes and user-ready tools to create new methods to generate valuable system data and to ensure grid reliability in light of new system challenges.
The Program incentivizes the use of existing infrastructure while continuing to create the next generation of critical grid components to avoid reliability events and blackouts.
Specific areas of focus in Grid Reliability, Resilience, and Control are specified below.
Supporting resilience and reliability while facilitating the integration of renewable energy and decarbonization. This includes the Grid-Enhancing Technologies program.
Examining current and new ways of measurement and associated standards that address outdated assumptions.
Addressing barriers to transmission system data use through data management, processing, and ML/AI.
Modernizing transmission system tools through human factors and cognitive science research for workforce training, control room application improvements, and robust decision making.
Improving grid reliability, optimizing electricity infrastructure, and facilitating grid connection with renewable resources is the focus of this program.