About | Electrification and Energy Infrastructures

Developing innovative capabilities for electric energy devices and systems

The Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division (EEID) is targeting breakthroughs to improve the reliability, versatility, and efficiencies of energy storage systems, electric grid protections and controls, power electronics, image and signal technologies, and advanced sensors. The division comprises internationally recognized staff with expertise encompassing nearly all areas of applied science and engineering.

EEID utilizes and stewards the Grid Research Integration and Deployment Center (GRID-C) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The 52,000-square-foot facility is a national showcase for energy systems research and development, enabling breakthroughs to support a resilient, reliable, and secure power grid. The unique, multipurpose research environment at GRID-C is available to industry, academic, and government partners who wish to access its state-of-the-art capabilities and world-class researcher expertise for developing innovative grid technologies. 

Similarly, EEID hosts the country’s largest open-access battery manufacturing research and development center. The Battery Manufacturing Facility, co-located with GRID-C, provides scientists and industry with the ability to analyze every aspect of battery production, from raw materials to coin and pouch cell batteries to performance testing. 

Technologies developed in EEID also support and protect vital communications and transportation infrastructure, domestic manufacturing, nuclear security, and defense readiness. Researchers develop imaging, sensing, and modeling algorithms and devices, often enhanced by machine learning, to provide real-time awareness for informed decision-making at a utility, in a factory, or in a national security environment.