§17389 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must create a grant program to pay for projects that modernize the electric distribution grid. Projects should use technology to make the grid easier to monitor, add advanced control tools, and help predict how the system will perform. To get a grant, a project must aim to make the future grid work better and more efficiently while keeping power safe, secure, reliable, and affordable. It must show it can securely integrate and manage two or more energy resources (for example distributed generation, combined heat and power, microgrids, energy storage, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, demand response, or intelligent loads) and securely connect communications and information technology so they work together.

Title 42, §17389

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(a)The Secretary shall establish a grant program to carry out eligible projects related to the modernization of the electric grid, including the application of technologies to improve observability, advanced controls, and prediction of system performance on the distribution system.

(b)To be eligible for a grant under subsection (a), a project shall—

(1)be designed to improve the performance and efficiency of the future electric grid, while ensuring the continued provision of safe, secure, reliable, and affordable power; and

(2)demonstrate—

(A)secure integration and management of two or more energy resources, including distributed energy generation, combined heat and power, micro-grids, energy storage, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, demand response, and intelligent loads; and

(B)secure integration and interoperability of communications and information technologies.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Energy Act of 2020, and not as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

ApplicationProvisions of section 3212 of this title applicable to

Construction

, alteration, or repair work of demonstration projects funded by grants or contracts authorized under this section, see section 9006(b) of div. Z of Pub. L. 116–260, set out as a note under section 16237 of this title.

§17389 Technology Demonstration on the Distribution Grid