Montana Senator Max Baucus Lauds Partnership Between Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers of Butte and Global Security Giant, Northrop Grumman Partners to Boost Renewable Energy Projects in Montana

Butte’s Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers http://www.rmscinc.org/ Executive Director says Baucus’ Economic Development Summit http://matr.net/article-41040.html made partnership possible

Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus applauded a new collaboration between the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers (RMSC) in Butte and global security giant, Northrop Grumman Partners http://www.northropgrumman.com/ , to boost wind and solar projects in Montana.

The Maximizing and Optimizing Renewable Energy (M.O.R.E.) POWER initiative will leverage the RMSC on-demand supercomputing resources and Northrop Grumman’s unique site selection tool to help identify the most efficient and productive networks of wind and solar farms for renewable energy projects.

RMSC Executive Director Earl J. Dodd credits Baucus’ Montana Economic Development Summit in September with making the M.O.R.E. POWER Initiative possible.

"Max’s Economic Development Summit in Butte this past September helped make our M.O.R.E. POWER partnership possible," said Earl J. Dodd, Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc. "At the Summit we were able to bring the right people together, kick discussions into high gear and turn our ideas into real business opportunities. "

"I support any effort to bolster Montana’s position as a national leader in the renewable energy sector. This is a great example of teamwork to move us closer to our goal of creating good-paying jobs in Montana. It’s important to continue to draw upon our resources – like the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers – to develop new opportunities in renewable energy," said Baucus.

The M.O.R.E. POWER initiative aims to lower the cost of operations by identifying an optimized network of wind farm locations and maximizing the ability to sell energy produced. Northrop Grumman and RMSC are collaborating to provide M.O.R.E. POWER services for the state of Montana to help establish governance guidelines for the state’s expansion of wind generation.

RMSC is on the forefront of High Performance Computing and Supercomputing and is pioneering Montana’s advanced technology frontier. For more information, please visit http://www.rmscinc.org.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a leading global security company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com for more information.