Good morning everyone!Grid Deployment Office Announces $4.6...

Good morning everyone!

Grid Deployment Office Announces $4.6 Million Investment to Accelerate Analysis of Regional Extreme Weather Threats and Impacts on Electric Grid

https://www.energy.gov/gdo/articles/grid-deployment-office-announces-46-million-investment-accelerate-analysis-regional

In the Northeast, Pointerra will collaborate with three electric utilities (Avangrid, Eversource, National Grid) and three university partners (Cornell University, University at Albany - State University of New York, and the University of Connecticut) to develop a cost-benefit methodology to determine the long-term resilience value of grid resilience investments in the Northeast. Pointerra will acquire LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology and imagery data and use its Pointerra3D platform to automatically generate a digital twin of select circuits in each utility’s service territory. Pointerra’s utility and academic partners will then use these digital twins for modeling and simulation of resilience investments, such as asset hardening, line undergrounding, and vegetation management. This best practice approach is intended to be scalable across multiple regions throughout North America.