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DOE OSTI2025

Grid Modernization of Cooperatives and Municipal Utilities via Breakthrough System Monitoring, Control and Optimization (CRADA Final Report)

This project aims at developing and demonstrating successful implementation of breakthrough approaches in real-time data visualization as well as real-time distributed DER control and optimization to provide ample benefits to both utilities and end users. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Holy Cross Energy (HCE), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) and Survalent are collaborating to enable Cooperative and Municipal utilities to fully leverage DERs as part of their strategies for providing safe, reliable, and affordable electric services to their customers and help meet DOE Grid modernization goal of achieving at least 10% active devices to provide grid flexibility by 2035. This project will use novel real-time control algorithms and approaches for distributed control recently developed under DOE-funded projects, using the date from the Survalent’s basic SCADA engine, GIS and AMI engines deployed at HCE combined with NRECA’s globally-used MultiSpeak(R) software interoperability specification for seamless and real-time communications between electric utility enterprise software to embrace DER as part of their strategies for providing safe, reliable and affordable electric service to their customers.

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DOE OSTI2025

Leveraging Cloud Platforms for Grid Modernization

Presentation held on Friday December 5th, 2025 at the “San Diego Tech Conference and Expo” about “Advanced Sensor Data Analytics and Cloud Computation for Grid Modernization”

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DOE OSTI2019

Advancing Grid Modernization Solutions

ORNL is developing technology solutions to modernize the U.S. power grid in tandem with industry and academic partners to ensure the secure, reliable flow of electricity essential for a vibrant economy.

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DOE OSTI2018

Cybersecurity for a Modern Grid

By understanding how to secure today’s grid, researchers at NREL are working to design and secure the grid of the future. Watch this video to hear from NREL’s Juan Torres on his vision for cybersecurity research at NREL.

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DOE OSTI2016

Sensing and Measurement Architecture for Grid Modernization

This paper addresses architecture for grid sensor networks, with primary emphasis on distribution grids. It describes a forward-looking view of sensor network architecture for advanced distribution grids, and discusses key regulatory, financial, and planning issues.

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DOE OSTI2026

Leveraging Cloud Platforms for Grid Modernization

Overview of the DOE funded Grid Operator Analytics and Assessment tools for Inverter-Based Resources Dominated Grid (GOAAT-IBR) Project, including insight to the lab setup and event analysis and dashboards that are being developed for this project.

Aminifar, Ph.D., Farrokh↗
DOE OSTI2016

Energy Policy Case Study - Texas: Wind, Markets, and Grid Modernization

This document presents a case study of energy policies in Texas related to power system transformation, renewable energy and distributed energy resources (DERs). Texas has experienced a dramatic increase in installed wind capacity, from 116 MW in 2000 to over 15,000 MW in 2015. This achievement was enabled by the designation of Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZs) and new transmission lines that transmit wind to load centers. This report highlights nascent efforts to include DERs in the ERCOT market. As costs decline and adoption rates increase, ERCOT expects distributed generation to have an increasing effect on grid operations, while bringing potentially valuable new resources to the wholesale markets.

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DOE OSTI2015

IEEE 1547 Standards Advancing Grid Modernization

Technology advances including development of advanced distributed energy resources (DER) and grid-integrated operations and controls functionalities have surpassed the requirements in current standards and codes for DER interconnection with the distribution grid. The full revision of IEEE Standards 1547 (requirements for DER-grid interconnection and interoperability) and 1547.1 (test procedures for conformance to 1547) are establishing requirements and best practices for state-of-the-art DER including variable renewable energy sources. The revised standards will also address challenges associated with interoperability and transmission-level effects, in addition to strictly addressing the distribution grid needs. This paper provides the status and future direction of the ongoing development focus for the 1547 standards.

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DOE OSTI2017

Foundational Report Series: Advanced Distribution Management Systems for Grid Modernization, DMS Integration of Distributed Energy Resources and Microgrids

Deregulation of the electric utility industry, environmental concerns associated with traditional fossil fuel-based power plants, volatility of electric energy costs, Federal and State regulatory support of “green” energy, and rapid technological developments all support the growth of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in electric utility systems and ensure an important role for DERs in the smart grid and other aspects of modern utilities. DERs include distributed generation (DG) systems, such as renewables; controllable loads (also known as demand response); and energy storage systems. This report describes the role of aggregators of DERs in providing optimal services to distribution networks, through DER monitoring and control systems—collectively referred to as a Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS)—and microgrids in various configurations.

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DOE OSTI2019

A Valuation Framework for Informing Grid Modernization Decisions: Guidelines

Advances in technologies to provide electric power (e.g., renewable energy and battery storage), measurements and monitoring (e.g., synchrophasors, smart meters), communication (e.g., cellular service, Internet utilities), computing (powerful distributed microprocessors), and innovations in grid topologies and configurations (e.g., microgrids) have markedly changed the options available to provide electricity to end-users. The value propositions for electrical service have similarly become much more complex and diverse. The values of a grid design option can no longer be expressed by just using historical costemissions-reliability metrics. Nor can major decisions be made through closed analysis without consideration of the different stakeholders affected by a decision. This valuation framework provides a structure for valuation that is deliberate, inclusive, and transparent, documenting the intermediate and final results to ensure clarity, accountability and repeatability.

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DOE OSTI2017

Blockchain: A Path to Grid Modernization and Cyber Resiliency

Blockchain may help solve several complex problems related to integrity and trustworthiness of rapid, distributed, complex energy transactions and data exchanges. In a move towards resilience, blockchain commoditizes trust and enables automated smart contracts to support auditable multiparty transactions based on predefined rules between distributed energy providers and customers. Blockchain based smart contracts also help remove the need to interact with third-parties, facilitating the adoption and monetization of distributed energy transactions and exchanges, both energy flows as well as financial transactions. This may help reduce transactive energy costs and increase the security and sustainability of distributed energy resource (DER) integration, helping to remove barriers to a more decentralized and resilient power grid. This paper explores the application of blockchain and smart contracts to improve smart grid cyber resiliency and secure transactive energy applications.

Mylrea, Michael E.↗
DOE OSTI2019

A Valuation Framework for Informing Grid Modernization Decisions: Summary

Across the electric power industry, a diverse stakeholder community applies a variety of methodologies to assess the value of courses of actions, ranging from investments in generation, transmission or distribution assets; to compensation mechanisms for distributed technologies; to a multitude of other policies related to projects in the electricity sector. The resulting value assessments often vary widely for the same or similar types of projects. As an example, two studies addressing the value of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) installations came to significantly different conclusions; the studies chose different valuation metrics and analysis methods. This example is not unusual: often valuation studies are not comparable or repeatable because of differences in assumptions with respect to economic and engineering inputs; time, geographic, and power system scales; the closed-source inner workings of modeling tools and analysis methodologies employed for the valuation; stakeholder-specific choices of the key metrics or grid attributes that are the focus of the valuation; and/or choices of which grid investment, design or operation alternatives to compare. Investment decisions and policy options are reviewed and interpreted by multiple stakeholders, who have different motivations, interests, and obligations.

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DOE OSTI2015

Foundational Report Series: Advanced Distribution Management Systems for Grid Modernization

This report describes the application functions for distribution management systems (DMS). The application functions are those surveyed by the IEEE Power and Energy Society’s Task Force on Distribution Management Systems. The description of each DMS application includes functional requirements and the key features and characteristics in current and future deployments, as well as a summary of the major benefits provided by each function to stakeholders — from customers to shareholders. Due consideration is paid to the fact that the realizable benefits of each function may differ by type of utility, whether investor-owned, cooperative, or municipal. This report is sufficient to define the functional requirements of each application for system procurement (request-for-proposal [RFP]) purposes and for developing preliminary high-level use cases for those functions. However, it should not be considered a design document that will enable a vendor or software developer to design and build actual DMS applications.

Wang, Jianhui↗
DOE OSTI2016

Foundational Report Series: Advanced Distribution Management Systems for Grid Modernization, High-Level Use Cases for DMS

Many distribution management systems (DMS) projects have achieved limited success because the electric utility did not sufficiently plan for actual use of the DMS functions in the control room environment. As a result, end users were not clear on how to use the new application software in actual production environments with existing, well-established business processes. An important first step in the DMS implementation process is development and refinement of the “to be” business processes. Development of use cases for the required DMS application functions is a key activity that leads to the formulation of the “to be” requirements. It is also an important activity that is needed to develop specifications that are used to procure a new DMS.

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DOE OSTI2017

Foundational Report Series: Advanced Distribution Management Systems for Grid Modernization, Business Case Calculations for DMS

Distribution Management System (DMS) applications require a substantial commitment of technical and financial resources. In order to proceed beyond limited-scale demonstration projects, utilities must have a clear understanding of the business case for committing these resources that recognizes the total cost of ownership. Many of the benefits provided by investments in DMSs do not translate easily into monetary terms, making cost-benefit calculations difficult. For example, Fault Location Isolation and Service Restoration (FLISR) can significantly reduce customer outage duration and improve reliability. However, there is no well-established and universally-accepted procedure for converting these benefits into monetary terms that can be compared directly to investment costs. This report presents a methodology to analyze the benefits and costs of DMS applications as fundamental to the business case.

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DOE OSTI2017

Foundational Report Series: Advanced Distribution Management Systems for Grid Modernization, Implementation Strategy for a Distribution Management System

Electric distribution utilities encounter many challenges to successful deployment of Distribution Management Systems (DMSs). The key challenges are documented in this report, along with suggestions for overcoming them. This report offers a recommended list of activities for implementing a DMS. It takes a strategic approach to implementing DMS from a project management perspective. The project management strategy covers DMS planning, procurement, design, building, testing, Installation, commissioning, and system integration issues and solutions. It identifies the risks that are associated with implementation and suggests strategies for utilities to use to mitigate them or avoid them altogether. Attention is given to common barriers to successful DMS implementation. This report begins with an overview of the implementation strategy for a DMS and proceeds to put forward a basic approach for procuring hardware and software for a DMS; designing the interfaces with external corporate computing systems such as EMS, GIS, OMS, and AMI; and implementing a complete solution.

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