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Why the electric grid needs a moonshot - The X Blog

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It’s in problems of this scale, importance, and urgency that X typically goes hunting for moonshots, and that’s why today at the White House Leaders Summit on Climate we announced that for the past three years we’ve been working on a moonshot for the electric grid. Right now our work is more questions than answers, but the central hypothesis we’ve been exploring is whether creating a single virtualized view of the grid — which doesn’t exist today — could make the grid easier to visualize, plan, build and operate with all kinds of clean energy. We’re announcing our work today because it’s not possible to explore this further without the close collaboration of organizations who know the intricacies of the grid — from grid operators to power system engineers to infrastructure experts, to the countries, cities, and towns who depend on it. To that end, Audrey Zibelman joined X in January to lead this moonshot and bring together a set of early stage innovation partners to develop and test pr

Why the Electric Grid Needs a Moonshot - Google X Blog W h y t h e E l e c t r i c G r i d N e e d s a M o o n s h o t How can we bring the grid out of the industrial age and into the age of intelligent technology? Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X / April 23, 2021 The electric grid is an engineering marvel - a vast and complex system that keeps our lights on and powers all of the devices that are now essential to modern life. Designed more than a century ago for electricity to flow in one direction from fossil-fueled plants to cities and towns, it wasn't built for what the modern world

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