Virginia Tech receives Smart Grid web portal contract

Virginia Tech says it has been given a $1.25 million five-year contract to develop an online portal to handle information about smart grid technology, and make it available to other people.

The contract is through the U.S. Department of Energy.

Professor Saifur Rahman, the director of Virginia Tech’s Advanced Research Institute in the National Capital Region will serve as the principal investigators for the Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse (SGIC) web portal.

“Virginia Tech is very pleased to be chosen as the only team in the United States to develop, manage, and maintain the Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse Web portal. This will give us the opportunity to interact with governments, industries, regulatory agencies, and professional associations—both in the United States and globally—who are actively engaged in this new technology,“ Rahman said in a news release.

“We envision the portal as the essential gateway that connects a smart grid community to the relevant sources of information that are currently scattered and distributed on the worldwide web,“ Rahman added in the release.