Mission

Powernet is an end-to-end, open-source system that will enable real-time coordination of utilities’ centralized, large assets with millions of distributed resources. It integrates embedded sensing and computing, power electronics, data analytics and networking with cloud computing. The Powernet research project, a collaboration between Stanford, SLAC, University of Florida, Google and the Navy, which was begun in 2016, is part of ARPA-E’s Network Optimized Distributed Energy Systems program.