The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated $34 million to help create a clean, reliable electricity grid that runs on wind and solar energy. The funds will be used to support 11 projects selected for the Solar Energy Technologies Office’s Operation and Planning Tools for Inverter-Based Resource Management and Availability for the Future Power System (OPTIMA) funding program. The projects are designed to help grid planners and operators implement new technologies that allow the grid to be more flexible and resilient to changes. In addition, the DOE has introduced a new $10 million funding opportunity to streamline the interconnection of clean energy to the grid.
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In a recent quote, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm said, “We can’t deploy clean energy if we can’t get renewable sources connected onto our grid. Thanks to support from the Biden-Harris Administration, we are developing new, state-of-the-art tools to break up logjams to connect more clean energy sources to the grid even faster, giving Americans access to more affordable and resilient sources of clean energy.”
Latest news from the DOE
DOE announces initiative to increase manufacturing of rooftop heat pumps
The program aims to bring heat pump rooftop units to market as soon as 2027.
DOE allocates $62 million to reduce costs for battery recycling
The funding, made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will be used to support 17 projects.
DOE allocates $6 billion to decarbonize energy-intensive industries and strengthen U.S. manufacturing
This is the largest investment in industrial decarbonization in America to date.
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