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Read how industry is using ARIES to help accelerate and derisk the deployment of innovative energy technologies.

ARIES Demonstrates New Inverter-Based Controls That Support Grid Restoration

Through the AURORA project, NREL engineers designed a research platform with 40 Siemens inverters to show how distributed energy devices can provide resilience by recovering electricity following an outage. This project, led by Siemens with partners Columbia University and Holy Cross Energy, aims to derisk new controls for integrating new energy technologies while providing resilience.

Partners Leverage ARIES Advanced Distribution Management System Test Bed To Evaluate Leading-Edge Management Solutions for the Electrical Grid

As new technologies are added to the grid, advanced research capabilities are needed to validate the performance and interoperability of controls technologies within distribution systems and grid-edge loads. The ARIES Advanced Distribution Management System research capability has been leveraged by utility and original equipment manufacturer partners such as Xcel Energy, Schneider Electric, Holy Cross Energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, Central Georgia EMC, and Israel Electric to develop optimal control strategies for distribution systems. The platform was also instrumental to facilitate research for PowerModelsONM, an R&D 100 award-winning project (with Los Alamos National Laboratory) focused on networked microgrids. The Advanced Distribution Management System test bed provides a safe environment for companies and utilities to validate and optimize their management systems under real-world scenarios in the lab, reducing risk before deployment in the field and reducing integration costs.

Cyber Range Accelerates Tech to Market

To understand and address security gaps in energy systems, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Offices of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response; sponsoring utilities Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Duke Energy, and Xcel Energy; and NREL launched the Critical Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator—a technology accelerator program to build cybersecurity into energy technologies to stay ahead of evolving threats. The accelerator's cohorts—which have included Blue Ridge Networks, Sierra Nevada Corp., Xage Security, runZero, and Asimily—validate proposed solutions in the ARIES cyber range, which provides a safe, emulated environment to evaluate cybersecurity innovations without putting customers or utility networks at risk.

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