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News Releases Lab signs Smart Grid modeling and simulation agreement
Lab LDRD project could assist smart-grid reliability and viability
Mar. 8, 2010— Karl Jonietz of the Lab's Applied Energy Programs, and Takefumi Fukumizu, president of NEDO, a Japanese energy consortium, signed an agreement Friday outlining LANL's participation in a Smart Grid modeling and simulation project. A Smart Grid delivers electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way digital technology to control appliances at consumers' homes to save energy, reduce cost and increase reliability. The collaborative research between NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) and the Lab could help improve Smart Grid technology by providing tools to forecast and respond to power supply needs created through consumer behaviors or provide other efficiency or reliability improvements.
Lab scientists will use in their modeling efforts a Smart Grid research facility furnished by NEDO. The small-scale Smart Grid will be created locally as part of a separate agreement with Los Alamos County, which owns the local municipal utility system. Under the agreement with NEDO and the County, an array of solar collectors and a storage "farm" comprised of two giant batteries weighing 190 metric tons combined will be constructed at the site of the former Los Alamos County landfill. The energy collected by the solar array will be fed into the local power grid as part of the agreement.
The technology will be evaluated and modeled for two years.
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