Enhancing Distribution Grid Anticipatory Resilience (EDGAR)
EDGAR is powered by ORNL's interdisciplinary team, with expertise in critical infrastructure resilience, national security, computer science, human system dynamics, and data engineering. With practical, real-world insights, ORNL is empowering utilities to anticipate, mitigate, and prevent major outage events in their service area.
Actionable Insights
EDGAR is offered free of charge, and participating utilities will receive specific actionable insights aimed at:
Reducing unplanned outages by 20-40%.
Creating yearly cost savings of up to $250,000 (average 50K meters).
Empowering decision-making resilience reviews and annual reporting.
Text notification engine delivers advisories up to 48-72 hours before an outage occurs.
ORNL Capabilities
EDGAR will integrate utility-provided data to benchmark service territories via a 5-stage Grid Technology Modernization Index, leveraging ORNL capabilities like:
- Weather Prediction Models
- Distribution Network Models
- Grid Infrastructure Layers
- Critical Infrastructure Overlays
- ODIN Layer Integration
- Grid Event Signature Library
- GenAI-based Contextual Enhancement
At each stage of resilience and data-sharing, additional predictive features and insights will be enabled, such as notification engine integration, zip-code level resilience, and increased automation - empowering 24/7 year-round utility response.
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