DOE Grid Deployment Office

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Grid Modernization Initiative has announced its strategy for investing in innovative new technologies to modernize today’s power grid while ensuring it remains secure and sustainable. Drawing from the Administration’s goals and power system objectives, the GMI’s updated strategy defines six pillars to guide its work: 1) Devices and Integrated Systems; 2) Operations 3) Planning; 4) Markets, Policies, and Regulations; 5) Resilient and Secure Systems; and 6) Flexible Generation and Load. The future modernized grid will need to balance a variety of key priorities that are not all perfectly aligned with each other. This document establishes a clear and actionable grid modernization strategy for DOE and the national labs to align these priorities in a secure and efficient manner.     Learn more and read the strategy here: https://lnkd.in/g3SpwXHv

Across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), we’re making progress toward our goal of increasing access to reliable, resilient energy across Puerto Rico. Last week, both GDO and the DOE Loan Programs Office announced two new investments into solar and battery storage systems to enhance energy security for Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable residents. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/d6Bu7SpH

Congratulations to the State of Maine for their strategic deployment of $6.6 million in Grid Resilience Formula Grants! Last week, Governor Janet Mills announced the selection of six Maine utilities and technology providers to receive grant awards to strengthen Maine’s electrical grid to better withstand extreme weather. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/em3JJe4M

🚨 ICYMI: Office of Indian Energy, U.S. Department of Energy has joined LinkedIn! Follow their page to learn more about DOE’s tribal energy development work.

Director Maria Robinson was pleased to join other expert panelists yesterday at the WIRES Summer Member Meeting in Boston, where she shared GDO’s work to strengthen the grid against extreme weather through investments in transmission solutions. Thanks, WIRES, for a great event! 

NEW: Today, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected 20 projects across 16 states to receive up to $371 million to accelerate the permitting of high-voltage, interstate transmission projects and support community infrastructure projects along major new and upgraded transmission lines. Today’s Transmission Siting and Economic Development (TSED) selections will help uplift communities through economic development investments that generate benefits in communities impacted by transmission development, while also accelerating project reviews by siting authorities. https://lnkd.in/ee4hJs3e

Did you know? The Gulf of Mexico represents 37% of the United States’ total offshore wind energy potential and could provide a reliable, clean source of energy to customers in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Today, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory published a report reviewing the current literature to gather information and identify gaps that need to be filled to advance offshore wind transmission planning work in the Gulf of Mexico. Funded by GDO and DOE’s Wind Energy Technologies Office, the report builds on previous research and identifies currently available information on available infrastructure, environmental factors, and community readiness for offshore wind transmission. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/ev6HWE-V

This week, Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07) and I visited Arecibo, one of many underserved communities where @POTUS is improving energy resiliency. Across Puerto Rico, we're connecting vulnerable homes to resilient solar and storage to protect and save lives in the face of extreme weather. 🇵🇷

Honored to join residents in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico this week to give an update on the Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund — President Biden's billion-dollar investment to bring solar + storage to Puerto Rico's most vulnerable communities. The past few months, we've been working hard to stand up Programa Acceso Solar. This week, we welcome some of the first installations in Loiza and Arecibo and this milestone couldn't have been reached without the cooperation and support of our partners and local communities. Also this week, the Department of Energy announced it will soon provide $325 million for Programa de Comunidades Resilientes — a new program that aims to expand solar + battery storage for multi-family housing and community infrastructure to protect Puerto Rico’s most vulnerable communities, prevent outages, and save lives. Funded by DOE's Puerto Rico Energy Resilience Fund, this new program underscores the Biden-Harris administration's commitment to helping thousands of Puerto Rican households access affordable solar and battery storage. Learn more. https://lnkd.in/eBzwAFQw

☀️ Through the Programa Acceso Solar, eligible low-income households in #PuertoRico can receive a rooftop solar and battery storage system — typically valued in the tens of thousands of dollars — with zero upfront costs. Beneficiaries will only be responsible for a monthly payment between $10 and $45 to cover system maintenance, a cost more than offset by home energy savings. Learn more at energy.gov/solarPR