Digitizing Utilities Prize
Pays $75,000 per team to interdisciplinary developers solving U.S. utilities' data problems.
DOE's Office of Electricity ran this prize to connect utilities with interdisciplinary teams that could apply data analytics, processing, quality assurance, storage and deletion techniques to problems the utilities themselves brought to the table, as part of the department's broader push on reliability, resilience and affordable grid operation. Phase 1 asked teams to show they understood a track's…
Looks for interdisciplinary teams of software developers, automation engineers and data scientists who can solve a utility's data problem — forecasting demand with Bonneville Power Administration, automating data analysis with Dominion Energy, or a challenge the team brings from its own utility partner.
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