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Energy Systems Integration News

A monthly recap of the latest happenings at the ESIF and developments in energy systems integration research at the lab and around the world.

Featured Publications

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UNIFI Specifications for Grid-Forming Inverter-Based Resources: Version 2, NREL Technical Report (2024)

High-Power Electric Vehicle Charging Hub Integration Platform (eCHIP), U.S. Department of Energy Technical Report (2024)

CloudZero Phase 2 Technical Report, NREL Technical Report (2024)

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Droop Control-Based Dispatch of an Islanded Microgrid With Multiple Grid-Forming Sources, Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2023)

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Grid Ancillary Services Using Electrolyzer-Based Power-to-Gas Systems With Increasing Renewable Penetration, e-Prime—Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy (2023)

Peak Demand Management and Voltage Regulation Using Coordinated Virtual Power Plant Controls, IEEE Access (2023)

2024 ESIF Stewardship Summary

In 2024, ESIF hosted 170 multidisciplinary projects with 85 partners. Our research advanced leading-edge technologies such as self-healing grids, electrolyzers, grid-forming inverters, and a control architecture that heralds a new direction for distributed energy management systems. We also opened the Energy Security and Resilience Laboratory and brought a third-generation supercomputer online. Read more in our summary.

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