The DoE is rushing to spend the few billion dollars allocated for the new US “Smart Grid”, a more technologically advanced power grid that’s more automatic and full of intelligent devices in the field that can be controlled and monitored remotely. But what’s someone to do with that massive stream of incoming data?
Oak Ridge National Laboratory persuaded 30 utilities to share some of their most precious real-time data in exchange for a grid visualization tool that helps everyone. The lab signs a nondisclosure agreement with each utility, then feeds the raw information into a monitoring system called Verde (Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth) that tracks grid assets nationwide, as shown in the illustration above.
There’s a PDF Fact Sheet of Verde available online.
