Welcome to DOepatents, the U.S. Department of Energy's central collection of patent information, where research and development intersect with innovation and invention. This collection demonstrates the Department's considerable contribution to scientific progress from the 1940s to today. http://www.osti.gov/doepatents http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:31:30 -0400 evansd@osti.gov Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:30:33 -0400 evansd@osti.gov FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.1.0) http://www.feedforall.com The power grid is a finicky thing. There's supply, there's demand, and the two don't always meet in the middle. Battelle scientists at <a href="http://www.pnl.gov/">Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</a> have found an efficient way to balance the ebbs and flows of energy supply by increasing or reducing the demand that household appliances place on the grid at a given time. A synergistic pairing of <a href="http://www.energy.gov/">Department of Energy</a> (DOE) and privately developed intellectual property gave <a href="http://www.battelle.org/">Battelle</a>, DOE, and the <a href="http://www.bpa.gov/">Bonneville Power Administration</a> (BPA) a path for bringing a solution to American households for real-world testing. http://www.osti.gov/doepatents/featured.jsp 8B024A70-32FC-4D92-B423-05D01D862D9F Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:30:33 -0400