Electric energy network: cross matching and integrating energy sources and uses

Technical Report · Sat Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:6938025

The U.S. electric energy network is vast, complex, and multi-faceted. It is a major part of the total energy picture, and thus its continued successful operation is critical to the future economic health and social well-being of this country. To meet the challenges and opportunities, DOE's Division of Electrical Energy Systems (EES) developed a broadly based R, D and D program in associated technologies and in systems development and control, addressing both near-term and longer-range needs. The EES Division has a somewhat special character within DOE in that it cuts across organizational boundaries and ties together the various electric energy technologies from generation, through transmission and distribution, to customer end uses. The principal elements of the EES program are: power delivery (advanced generator and transformer technology, high voltage direct current (HVDC) technology, compact lines and stations, advanced underground cable systems, and electric field effects); and power supply integration (dispersed generation, dispersed storage, load management and distribution automation and control, complex systems control, and large-scale systems development). The broad objective of this program is to insure that the national electric energy system is capable of meeting future demands reliably, with lowest practicable energy losses, at the lowest possible cost, and in accordance with environmental and NEP principles and policies.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA). Div. of Electric Energy Systems
• OSTI ID: 6938025
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET-0051
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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