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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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 -
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
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The selectees of $15 million in awards were announced. These awards are through the Storage Innovations 2030: Technology Liftoff FOA to advance energy storage.April 8, 2024 -
The importance of transformer innovation and transformer supply chains to ensure grid reliability.February 22, 2024 -
The R&D 100 Awards recognize new commercial products, technologies, and materials for their technological significance available for sale or license.December 22, 2023 -
Current electric utility investments to improve distribution system reliability are often based on analysis of historical performance.December 18, 2023