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42 U.S. Code § 17384. Smart grid technology research, development, and demonstration
(a) Power grid digital information technologyThe Secretary, in consultation with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other appropriate agencies, electric utilities, the States, and other stakeholders, shall carry out a research, development, and demonstration program—
(1)
to develop advanced techniques for measuring peak load reductions and energy-efficiency savings from smart metering, demand response, distributed generation, and electricity storage systems;
(2)
to investigate means for demand response, distributed generation, and storage to provide ancillary services;
(3)
to conduct research to advance the use of wide-area measurement and control networks, including data mining, visualization, advanced computing, and secure and dependable communications in a highly-distributed environment;
(4)
to test new reliability technologies, including those concerning communications network capabilities, in a grid control room environment against a representative set of local outage and wide area blackout scenarios;
(5)
to identify communications network capacity needed to implement advanced technologies.[1]
(6)
to investigate the feasibility of a transition to time-of-use and real-time electricity pricing;
(7)
to develop algorithms for use in electric transmission system software applications;