Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 121.djvu/1807

 121 STAT. 1786

PUBLIC LAW 110–140—DEC. 19, 2007

The Smart Grid Task Force shall meet at the call of its Director as necessary to accomplish its mission. (c) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of this section such sums as are necessary to the Secretary to support the operations of the Smart Grid Advisory Committee and Smart Grid Task Force for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2020. 42 USC 17384.

SEC. 1304. SMART GRID TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION.

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(a) POWER GRID DIGITAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.—The Secretary, in consultation with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other appropriate agencies, electric utilities, the States, and other stakeholders, shall carry out a program— (1) to develop advanced techniques for measuring peak load reductions and energy-efficiency savings from smart metering, demand response, distributed generation, and electricity storage systems; (2) to investigate means for demand response, distributed generation, and storage to provide ancillary services; (3) to conduct research to advance the use of wide-area measurement and control networks, including data mining, visualization, advanced computing, and secure and dependable communications in a highly-distributed environment; (4) to test new reliability technologies, including those concerning communications network capabilities, in a grid control room environment against a representative set of local outage and wide area blackout scenarios; (5) to identify communications network capacity needed to implement advanced technologies. (6) to investigate the feasibility of a transition to timeof-use and real-time electricity pricing; (7) to develop algorithms for use in electric transmission system software applications; (8) to promote the use of underutilized electricity generation capacity in any substitution of electricity for liquid fuels in the transportation system of the United States; and (9) in consultation with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, to propose interconnection protocols to enable electric utilities to access electricity stored in vehicles to help meet peak demand loads. (b) SMART GRID REGIONAL DEMONSTRATION INITIATIVE.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish a smart grid regional demonstration initiative (referred to in this subsection as the ‘‘Initiative’’) composed of demonstration projects specifically focused on advanced technologies for use in power grid sensing, communications, analysis, and power flow control. The Secretary shall seek to leverage existing smart grid deployments. (2) GOALS.—The goals of the Initiative shall be— (A) to demonstrate the potential benefits of concentrated investments in advanced grid technologies on a regional grid; (B) to facilitate the commercial transition from the current power transmission and distribution system technologies to advanced technologies;

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