New distributed devices and systems will help deliver the flexibility required by the future grid for managing variable generation, engaging consumer, and enhancing reliability and resiliency while keeping electricity affordable.
This technical area develops devices and integrated systems, coordinates integration standards and test procedures, and evaluates the grid characteristics of both individual devices and integrated systems to provide grid-friendly energy services. For example, the DOE-funded collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and electric industry stakeholders in developing smart grid interoperability standards, begun in 2009, has laid the technical foundation for more effective grid investments today.
- Develop devices and integrated systems
- Coordinate integration standards and test procedures
- Evaluate the grid characteristics of both individual devices and integrated systems to provide grid-friendly energy services at a variety of scales.
- Team Lead: National Renewable Energy Laboratory.