The Department of Energy’s Grid Modernization Office (GMI) has announced its strategy for investing in innovative new technologies to modernize today’s power grid while ensuring it remains secure and sustainable.
The GMI coordinates key research, development, demonstration, and deployment activities across the Department to maintain and advance a resilient, secure and equitable grid. Additionally, the initiative provides thought leadership to integrate all sources of electricity in a modernized grid ecosystem, solving key challenges like energy storage, distributed generation, cybersecurity, and climate resilience, while providing a coordinated and accessible platform for innovation in a global energy economy.