Bits & Watts Initiative is a cross-campus effort of the Precourt Institute for Energy.

Bits & Watts Initiative

About

Innovating for the 21st century grid

Bits & Watts is a Stanford University initiative bringing together multi-disciplinary research teams to develop innovations for the 21st century electric grid. It works to develop a new grid paradigm that is needed to incorporate large amounts of clean power and a growing number of distributed energy resources, while simultaneously enabling grid reliability, resilience, security and affordability.

Overview: The Bits & Watts Initiative at Stanford University

The Bits & Watts Initiative seeks to

  • Offer and implement new research ideas and de-risk them for the electricity ecosystem
  • Educate faculty, students, post-doctoral fellows and staff about the holistic systems-focused approach to solving problems for the electricity ecosystem
  • Offer holistic on-site and online educational experiences for current industry executives and other leaders
  • Create open-source hardware and software solutions rapidly adopted by industry and policymakers
  • Maintain flexibility amid uncertainty to exploit emerging technologies
  • Be a trusted and unbiased convener
  • Create platforms and protocols for sharing data with due consideration of privacy, security and confidentiality
Previous faculty co-directors discuss the Bits & Watts Initiative

Leadership

Stanford provides a dedicated pool of excellent faculty, students, post-doctoral fellows and staff across engineering, business, economics, social sciences and law. We have a culture of cross-campus collaboration, entrepreneurial spirit, and deep engagement with industry. Bits & Watts Leadership is committed to bringing these resources together to create strategic value for our members in these times of significant change. We hope you will join us.