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Featured Publications

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Generative AI for Power Grid Operations, NREL Technical Report (2024)

Best Practices Guide for Energy-Efficient Data Center Design, Federal Energy Management Program Technical Report (2024)

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An Introduction to the Federated Architecture for Secure and Transactive Distributed Energy Management Solutions: Preprint, 50th Annual Conference of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Industrial Electronics Society (2024)

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From Chills to Thrills: Revolutionizing Energy Efficiency and Load Flexibility in Supermarket Refrigeration: Preprint, 2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings Conference (2024)

Performance Evaluation of a Single-Phase Grid-Forming Inverter Through Hardware Experiments, 2024 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (2024)

Aging Iridium Oxide Catalyst Inks: A Formulation Strategy To Enhance Ink Processability for Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolyzers, Royal Society of Chemistry Soft Matter (2024)

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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