The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity today announced plans to launch Round 3 of the Digitizing Utilities Prize in early 2025. Currently, the prize team is seeking more information from utilities and related partners on industry challenges related to:
- Distributed resource integration and decision-making under uncertainty
- Sensors and/or analytics testing and validation of use cases utilizing public data, demonstration, and potentially the Grid Event Signature Library.
The team is also seeking industry challenges specific to utilities and/or regulators to the prize topic areas in which outside entities are likely able to address as they relate to grid data analytics, digitization efforts, and interconnection with distributed energy resources (DERs), such as:
- Photovoltaics
- Wind
- Hydropower
- Energy storage
- Any combination of the above (and others!).
If you’re interested in providing your thoughts on the above topics, we encourage you to read more about Round 3 and submit your feedback by Dec. 19. Additional details, such as prize amounts and submission materials, will be shared in 2025.
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