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Rows of battery racks at the <a href="node/657906">Salem Smart Power Center</a> in Salem, Ore. The Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, will use the center’s 5-megawatt energy storage system to test several smart grid technologies and approaches. | Photo courtesy of Portland General Electric.

Rows of battery racks at the Salem Smart Power Center in Salem, Ore. The Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, will use the center’s 5-megawatt energy storage system to test several smart grid technologies and approaches. | Photo courtesy of Portland General Electric.

Smart Grid Week: Working to Modernize the Nation’s Electric Grid
Introducing Smart Grid Week. | Photo courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Our latest Energy.gov series -- Smart Grid Week -- highlights efforts across the country to transform the nation's electric grid. Learn how you can share your own thoughts and perspectives throughout the series.

Smart Grid Week: R&D Projects Paving the Way to the 21st Century Grid
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's <a href="http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=948">GridLAB-D™ tool</a> works to simulate all aspects of the energy grid from generation to end use allowing users to see the future of the grid like never before. | Photo courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Next up in our Smart Grid Week series -- how grid modernization research and development projects directly benefit you.

Smart Grid Week: How the Transition to 21st Century Grid Impacts You
Smart meter technology plays a key role in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon competition. <a href="/node/300517">The Team Tidewater Virginia's smart meter</a>, as seen on opening day, indicates the team generated 5 kW hours of electricity in the first several hours of the competition. | Image courtesy of Lachlan Fletcher, Studio 18a.

From smart meters to energy-saving apps -- an overview of the many capabilities a smarter, more powerful grid makes available to you.

Smart Grid Week: Hurricane Season and the Department’s Efforts to Make the Grid More Resilient to Power Outages
President Barack Obama listens to then-Acting Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman during a meeting with electric utility CEOs and trade association representatives at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., May 8, 2013. | Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

Next up in our Smart Grid Week series -- improving electric grid technologies to adequately prepare for emergencies with power outages.

Smart Grid Week: New Project in Oregon Helping Advance the Grid of the Future
Rows of battery racks at Portland General Electric’s Salem Smart Power Center in Salem, Ore. PGE is a participant in the Battelle-led Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project, which will use the center’s 5-megawatt energy storage system to test several smart grid technologies and approaches. | Photo courtesy of Portland General Electric.

New lithium-ion storage facility in Salem, Oregon is helping to make our power grid smarter and more reliable.

Progress on Our 21st Century Grid: Powering Our Country and Our Economy
Investments in the nation's electric power grid are delivering significant benefits to consumers and businesses. | Photo courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Since the start of the new year, I have spoken at more than a dozen events about ways in which investment in the electric power grid is delivering significant benefits to consumers, businesses, and communities across the nation.