SOLICITATION NOTICE
61 -- Modern Grid Initiative
- Notice Date
- 7/7/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- 3610 Collins Ferry Road (MS-I07) P.O. Box 880 Morgantown, WV
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- DE-RI26-06NT50040
- Response Due
- 8/30/2006
- Archive Date
- 2/28/2007
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Request for Expression of Interest The Department of Energy???s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE) has asked NETL to create the Modern Grid Initiative, a coordinated national program to facilitate the modernization of the U.S. electric transmission and distribution system. OE???s intent is to engage all stakeholders in developing a shared vision of a modern grid and help achieve that vision by conducting regional demonstrations of integrated technologies and processes to revolutionize the electric grid. NETL is requesting an Expression of Interest from technology developers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, integrators, service providers and any other parties interested in supporting the effort to achieve the characteristics and address the key technology needs of the Modern Grid as described below. Please describe your firm???s background, proposed role, any technologies for integration and demonstration, and benefits that will result from your involvement in the Modern Grid Initiative. Responses must be received by August 30, 2006. All responses must be sent to Patrick M. Findle at patrick.findle@sa.netl.doe.gov and submitted in Adobe Portable Document (PDF) format. Companies with multiple core capability can provide one response covering each technology area. Questions relating to the expression of interest should be directed to Patrick M. Findle at patrick.findle@sa.netl.doe.gov. Please limit your response to a two page summarization when printed using standard 8.5 inch by 11 inch paper with 1 inch margins (top, bottom, left, and right) with font no smaller than 11 point. Responses can include references to web pages for additional information. Summarization of your technology, equipment, service, or facilities should include: - Company Name, company description, technical point of contact information; - Name, description of the technology, equipment or service and its uniqueness; - Alignment with the Modern Grid Initiative's Key Technology Areas, contribution to achieving the Principal Characteristics, possible benefit to the grid and support of the Modern Grid Initiative; - Stage of technology - R&D, Ready for integration and demonstration; Anticipated timing to market use; - Types of technology, R&D tasks, services and partners you are interested in to compliment / collaborate with your efforts. For more information go to: www.themoderngrid.org The seven principal characteristics of the Modern Grid are outlined as follows: Self heals???The grid monitors itself and automatically detects, analyzes, responds to, and restores grid components or network sections to maintain reliability, security, affordability, power quality, and an efficient state. Motivates and includes the consumer???Individual, business, and industry consumers become integral, active parts of the electric power system. Participating in electricity markets will benefit both the individual consumer and overall system reliability. Resists attack???It is critical for the modern grid to address security from the outset, making security a requirement and ensuring an integrated and balanced approach across the system. Provides power quality for 21st-century users???Sensitive loads represent an increasing portion of the total power system load. The power quality delivered by the modern grid must be improved to meet the requirements of these sensitive loads. In addition, improvements in the design of the loads will make them more tolerant of distorted power. Accommodates all generation and storage options???The modern grid will accommodate a portfolio of diverse generation types, necessitating a greatly simplified interconnection process analogous to plug-and-play in today???s computer environment, particularly at the distributed energy resources level. Enables markets???The modern grid will integrate electricity markets into the fabric of the electric system because operations, planning, pricing, and reliability are dependent on how open-access markets are designed and instituted. For this reason, it will not only support wholesale electric markets but also retail markets where applicable. Optimizes assets and operates efficiently???Assets will be managed in concert so that, as a system, they can deliver functionality at a minimum cost. For example, advanced sensing and robust communications will allow early problem detection and corrective action. With the principal characteristics driving the development of the Modern Grid, key technology areas will emerge to enable desired performance. A focus on technology and innovation will be encouraged and is, in fact, required to achieve the functional specifications of the principal characteristics and ultimate success. The key technology areas proposed are the following: Integrated Communications???High-speed, fully integrated, two-way communications technologies will establish the infrastructure needed to enable the modern grid to become a dynamic, interactive ???mega-infrastructure??? for real-time information and power exchange. Its open architecture will create a plug-and-play environment that securely networks smart sensors and control devices, control centers, protection systems, and users. Sensing and Measurement???New digital technology applications will accommodate a variety of inputs, deliver a variety of outputs, and maintain interfaces among generators, grid operators, and customer portals. They will function to enhance power measurement, provide outage detection and response, evaluate equipment health and grid integrity, eliminate meter estimations, provide energy theft protection, enable consumer choice and demand response, and facilitate congestion relief. In addition, new smart sensors will be applied to various grid-monitoring functions. Advanced Components???The next generation of power system devices will take advantage of new material technologies, nanotechnologies, advanced digital designs, etc., to produce higher power densities, better reliability, and improved real-time diagnostics to greatly improve grid performance. These technologically advanced devices will include superconducting transmission cable, fault current limiters, composite conductors, Flexible AC Transmission Systems, advanced energy storage, distributed generation, advanced transformers and circuit breakers, and smart loads. Advanced Control Methods???Grid monitoring will be an essential element of reliability and security. Advanced control methodologies, such as computer-based algorithms, will support distribution and substation automation, adaptive relaying, energy management, market pricing, grid modeling and simulation, advanced visualization systems, and other grid elements. They will also integrate with asset management processes and technologies to further optimize grid operations and planning. Improved Interfaces and decision support???In many situations, the time available for operators to make decisions has shortened to seconds. Thus, the modern grid will require the wide, seamless, real-time use of applications and tools that enable grid operators and managers to make decisions quickly. This includes the role of artificial intelligence to support the human interface, operator decision support (e.g., alerting tools, what-if tools, course-of-action tools) semi-autonomous agent software, visualization tools and systems, performance dashboards, advanced control-room design, and real-time dynamic simulator training.
- Web Link
-
Click here for further details regarding this notice.
(https://e-center.doe.gov/iips/busopor.nsf/UNID/58BC17B0247CB6FE852571A400693394?OpenDocument)
- Record
- SN01084276-W 20060709/060707220516 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
(may not be valid after Archive Date)
| FSG Index | This Issue's Index | Today's FBO Daily Index Page |