About Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems
The Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) platform is designed to derisk, optimize, and secure current energy systems and provide insight into future energy systems that are clean, secure, resilient, reliable, and equitable.
Transforming the Grid
One of the primary challenges to the nation’s transition to achieving a clean energy future is closing the gap between ambitions and real-world deployment. ARIES is a unique asset of the U.S. Department Energy (DOE) that can help. DOE's national laboratories tackle the nation’s most complex challenges, such as developing ways to derisk investments in clean energy technologies.
ARIES takes in the full picture—from community energy needs to technology developers and service providers—rather than evaluating clean energy and technologies in isolation. This innovative approach uncovers opportunities and risks in the spaces where energy technologies and sectors—such as transportation, industry, buildings, and the electric grid—meet.
With an energy system that is undergoing dramatic transformations, ARIES is a flexible
platform that provides the opportunity to develop and evaluate new technologies at
a size and scale that matters. ARIES is critical for implementing some of our most
important programs, including Clean Energy to Communities."
— Kevin Lynn, ARIES lead and director of Grid Modernization, DOE
DOE, NREL, and other national laboratories are working together to provide communities access to assets such as ARIES, through programs such as Clean Energy to Communities, to help clear any obstacles to their clean energy transition.
The Value of ARIES
- Replicates energy system complexities at a real-world scale
- Demonstrates energy system transition pathways using unique physical and virtual assets for equitable local and national deployments
- Reduces risk through system validation of new technologies, cybersecurity strategies, and resilient design
- Amplifies the scale and impact of research projects through collaboration across the national lab complex
- Provides data-driven insights to regulators and other stakeholders to assess the impacts of clean energy deployment scenarios
Where Energy Alternatives Come to Life
The bold strategies being pursued by partners are within reach because of ARIES—where experiments are unconstrained by limits on power or computation and can push as far ahead as technology permits. Partners can accelerate their energy innovations through the pilot stage to commercial-scale deployments by using the ARIES platform to try their idea in real-world conditions before going live.
Read more about our partners in the 2023 ARIES Annual Report and our impacts.
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