Oak Ridge Mashes Up Electric Grid to Protect, Support Recovery
The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system (fact sheet) is a “tool that enables real-time status of the national electric grid that federal state and local agencies can use to coordinate and respond to major problems such as wide-area power outages, natural disasters and other catastrophic events.” Announced last week from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Dept of Energy), the Google Earth mashup includes “images and stats of everything from real-time status of the US electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation.” The goal: predict outages, improve situational awareness and speed recovery from outages.
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/11 at 09:26 AM |
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