To facilitate abundant, affordable, and reliable energy at scale, Berkeley Lab is working with the power, building, industry, and transportation sectors to advance a modernized grid.

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Load Flexibility

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Working across the four largest sectors of the economy — power, buildings, industry, and transportation —  our researchers conduct groundbreaking research on demand flexibility technologies to enable an affordable and reliable energy grid.

Reconductoring Economic & Financial Analysis Tool (REFA)

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A first-of-its-kind tool designed to help utility transmission planners better understand the benefits of reconductoring upgrades using traditional or advanced conductors.

Power System Reliability Tools

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Researchers are partnering with electric utilities across the country to create more accurate cost estimates for both short- and long-term power outages, building tools to guide investments in grid reliability.

Grid Impacts Analysis

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Our researchers conduct innovative analysis on the impacts of efficiency, demand response, and demand flexibility on the distribution and bulk power systems.

FLEXLAB®

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FLEXLAB and FLEXGRID enable users to test and evaluate various flexible demand- and supply-side technologies and applications under real-world conditions.

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As a Senior Scientist her personal research interests include new building technologies, modeling, and analysis; commercial and residential building systems integration; grid interactive communications and integration with electric vehicles, energy storage, and photovoltaics.

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Granderson focuses on energy management and information systems (EMIS), fault diagnostics and control, and advanced measurement and verification.

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Pritoni conducts research in the area of advanced controls, data-driven modeling and data analytics applied to buildings. He leads a team of researchers working on optimization of building operation and building-to-grid interaction.

Improving U.S. Industrial Competitiveness and Productivity

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Berkeley Lab Helps Utilities Understand Power Outage Costs

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The Use of Price-based Demand Response as a Resource in Electricity System Planning

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Energy Efficiency

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Manufacturing Innovation

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Transportation

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