Tri-Cities Tech Business Update
Climate research and smart grid funding
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. has received nearly $6 million through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to advance climate research and to further its ability to analyze "smart" power grids. Nearly $5 million is allocated to build a dedicated, high-performance computer for integrated assessment climate research, to understand human and natural Earth system interactions, and to create decision support tools for policy makers and the public. And just under $1 million is allocated to test ways of analyzing new "smart" data being received from the power grid, in order to more quickly and effectively determine abnormalities, and to identify potential areas of stress before they become a problem. Read the PNNL news release.
