PROGRAM AREA OVERVIEW

OFFICE OF ELECTRICITY DELIVERY AND ENERGY RELIABILITY

The mission of the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) is to lead a national effort to modernize and expand America ’s electricity delivery system in order to ensure a more reliable and robust electricity supply.  This will be accomplished by actions that eliminate bottlenecks, foster competitive electricity markets, and expand technology choices.  A modernized grid will significantly improve the Nation’s electric reliability, efficiency, and affordability, and contribute to economic and national security.  The risk of multi-regional blackouts will be reduced through better visualization and controls of the electric grid, superconductivity for electric systems, advanced cable design, storage and power electronics, use of distributed energy resources and micro-grids, as well as other technologies supported by the Office.  Effective application of all these technologies requires development of less expensive high temperature superconducting second generation wire, advanced materials for power electronics and energy storage, modeling and analysis.

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TOPICS:

44. High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) Second Generation Wire

      a.   Effect of Filament Geometry on AC Loss

      b.   Low Aspect-Ratio Coated Conductors

      c.   Cryogenic Dielectric Materials that can be Integrated into 2G Conductors

      d.   Novel Ultra-Fast Techniques to Deposit Epitaxial Layers for Low-Cost 2G Conductors

45. Power Electronics and Advanced Materials for Energy Storage

      a.   Wide Band Gap, High Voltage, High Frequency Switches

      b.   Reactive Power Supply

      c.   Advanced Nano-Materials for Energy Storage Applications

46. Modeling and Analysis

      a.   Electricity System Reliability Model

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