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 anticipate, mitigate, and prevent major outage events in their service area.

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
Empowering decision-making resilience reviews and annual reporting
Text notification engine will deliver advisories up to 48-72 hours before outage occurs

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
GenAl-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.