This federal Project Grant, awarded by the Department of Energy (DOE) under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254), provides $115,225,626 to Portland General Electric Company to install a scalable, distributed artificial intelligence (AI) platform that will accelerate grid edge computing capabilities and enhance distributed energy resource (DER) integration. The project will deploy approximately 90,000 grid edge computing (GEC) devices across 10% of the utility's customer base, with 40% of the GECs located in disadvantaged communities, to demonstrate the value of edge computing prior to a full system deployment. This project supports the utility's goal of sourcing 25% of its peak load from its distribution system and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2030.
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