Digitizing Utilities Prize Round 3: Resilient Grid Innovation
Pays interdisciplinary software and data teams up to $150,000 each to help U.S. electric utilities modernize their data systems and grid analytics.
This is Round 3 of a recurring DOE prize; the underlying challenge is the same each round -- utilities generate more data than their existing tools and staff can use, and off-the-shelf analytics products carry only modest electricity-domain expertise -- and the round explicitly responds to Executive Order 14262 on strengthening the reliability and security of the US electric grid. Non-utility team…
This round wants mixed teams of software engineers, data specialists and decision scientists who can help a U.S. energy sector partner solve a real data or resource-integration problem. Eligible partners include rural electric cooperatives, municipal and investor-owned utilities, regional transmission operators, and electric wire owners or operators. Two optional bonus prizes reward teams that contribute grid data to public repositories or build federated, privacy-preserving analytics across utilities.
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