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ORNL, Chattanooga EPB Test Role of Sensors in Grid Innovation

Sensor arrays are developed by ORNL researchers for the Chattanooga EPB.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

With a fiber-optic network that provides Chattanooga residents and businesses with exceptional high-speed communications, the city’s Electric Power Board (EPB) provides the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with an ideal testbed for smart grid research.   With support provided by DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), an effort was launched in 2014 to advance the state of the power grid in Tennessee. The intent was to have Oak Ridge...

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