The Future Grid to Enable Sustainable Energy Systems
A systematic transformation of today's electric grid is underway to enable high penetrations of sustainable energy systems. The grid is evolving from a network architecture with relatively few large, hierarchically-connected, tightly synchronized energy resources supplying large, medium, and very many small passive consumers. It is evolving toward a network driven by many distributed and concentrated, highly variable energy resources mixed with large central generation sources, energy storage and responsive users. The effective transformation of the grid requires decisions based on identification and solution of major operating, planning, workforce, economic and public policy challenges.
The U.S. DOE has funded the project "The Future Grid to Enable Sustainable Energy Systems." Its objective is to investigate the requirements of an electric grid with high penetrations of sustainable energy systems and heavy reliance on cyber systems for sensing and communication while stimulating discussion among the academic, industry and government communities on what it will take to shape the future grid for the mid-twenty-first century.
For more information:
The Future Grid Initiative Workshop will be held on Dec. 7 at Univ. of California, Berkeley. Click here to view the announcement.
Note: DOE has made its DRAFT Vision of the Future Grid available
[PPTX, 7.1MB].