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Modeling, Monitoring, Microgrids: ORNL Provides Help as Puerto Rico Rebuilds

Researchers at ORNL, other DOE national laboratories were commissioned to evaluate and analyze options, offer tools.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

As Puerto Rico works to restore and modernize its power grid after last year’s devastating hurricane season, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have stepped up to provide unique analysis, sensing and modeling tools to better inform decisions. The Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity has been working to help the island evaluate damage and identify opportunities to make the power grid more resilient to future disruption. The office issued a report in June, “Energy Resilience Sol...

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