Map of the areas of the US and Canada where the Western Interconnected Grid is along with logos of the partners in the climate resilient centre for it.

Launch of Western Interconnected Grid

The University of Calgary and the University of Utah will establish and co-lead the U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid through $5M funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and $3.75M funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Commonly known as “the Western Interconnection,” it is one of two…