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DC-IN-A-BOX™ Wins Award

A GridApp™-supported core technology project—Exelon Corporation’s DC-IN-A-BOX™ Substation Design—has received the 2005 Utility Automation & Engineering T&D Project of the Year Award in the category of Transmission & Distribution (T&D) engineering. See Press Release.

The Exelon DC-IN-A-BOX™ project has received funding support for field performance evaluation from Concurrent Technologies Corporation (the GridApp™ organizer) through its cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE).

Joint RFP on GridWise and GridWorks

This FY 2005 request for cooperative R&D proposals was closed on July 8, 2005.

Under the GridWise Program Topic Areas, #1-4, the following proposals were selected and awarded:

Topic Area 1: Demonstration of Advanced Distribution Operations/Automation with DER Integration

Advanced Integration of DER into the Utility Distribution System, DTE Energy

Development of an Integrated Distribution Management System (IDMS), Southern Company Services, Inc.

3G System of the Future: Advanced Distribution Operation with DER Integration, Infotility

Topic Area 2: Demonstration of Smart Appliances for Load Management

None awarded.

Topic Area 3: Fault Locating, Prediction, and Protection

Advanced Protection Methods Implemented on SCE’s Circuit of the Future, Southern California Edison

Development and Demonstration of Advanced Monitoring Systems for Fault Location, Analysis, and Prediction, EPRI Solutions

Topic Area 4: Microgrid Technology Development and Demonstration

Microgrid Design, Development and Demonstration, GE Global Research

Value and Technology Assessments to Enhance the Business Case for the CERTS Microgrid, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Events

Electric Distribution R&D Peer Review

May 25-26, 2006 — San Ramon, California

The Annual Program and Peer Review Meeting for the Electric Distribution R&D Program was held May 25-26, 2006, in San Ramon, California. This meeting offered an opportunity to learn more about the Program's mission, goals, objectives, and leadership.

All currently funded projects were presented and reviewed by an expert peer review panel. In addition to improving program management efficiencies, the review served as an opportunity for information exchange among colleagues and interested parties to further collaboration and cooperation.

To view the agenda, attendee list, and presentations, please visit our Meetings area.

GridApp™ Informational Outreach Meeting &
Developing the Modern Grid Workshop

November 8-10, 2005 — Mesa, Arizona

A GridApp™ informational outreach meeting open to invited utilities interested in membership was held November 8.

In conjunction with the GridApp™ meeting, a 1.5-day workshop on "Developing the Modern Grid" was held November 9-10. This workshop event was jointly organized by CTC and SAIC under DOE sponsorship.

Visit the GridApp™ website to access final workshop presentations.

GridWise Constitutional Convention

December 6 & 7, 2005 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The GridWise Architecture Council convened an initial principle set of “federated parties” to establish a constitution that will guide critical future technology advancement over the next 10-30 years to realize a healthy, self-sustaining, highly interoperable electric supply system. The historic and groundbreaking GridWise Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia on December 6-7, 2005.

For more information, please visit the GridWise website.

April 19 & 20, 2005 — Georgia Tech Conference Center, Atlanta, Georgia

This meeting provided opportunity for review of projects funded under the sponsorship of the Electric Distribution Transformation (EDT) and GridWise Programs.

To view the agenda, attendee list, and presentations, please visit our Meetings area.

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