This page serves as a repository for products and deliverables created through the GMLC projects. It also contains guidance documents, as well as key accomplishments by the national laboratories toward grid modernization. lf you would like to add to this repository, please send a message to gmlc@hq.doe.gov.
For DOE grid modernization information, please visit DOE's Grid Modernization Initiative website.
Title |
Summary | Publication Date | Type | File/Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rooftop PV Financial Performance in Puerto Rico |
NREL used the System Advisor Model (SAM) to model the financial performance of PV systems for each of the aforementioned service classes using... |
October 2016 | Presentation |
 Puerto Rico PV Financial Performance |
| Review and Assessment of Sensing and Measurement Technology for Electric Power Grids |
Devices Including Communications and Data Analytics Requirements |
April 2019 | Report |
 GMLC Sensing Measurement Strategy Technology Review Assessment Final Report.docx |
| Resilient Alaskan Distribution System Improvements using Automation, Network analysis, Control, and Energy storage (RADIANCE) |
The project team will put in place a system of resilient, networked microgrids in Cordova, Alaska. This project introduces the concept of... |
August 2018 | Fact Sheet |
Resilient Alaskan Distribution System Improvements using Automation, Network analysis, Control, and Energy storage (RADIANCE) |
| Regulatory Incentives and Disincentives for Utility Investments in Grid Modernization |
Electric power is America's most capital-intensive industry, with more than $100 billion invested each year in energy infrastructure. Investment... |
May 2017 | Report |
Regulatory Incentives and Disincentives for Utility Investments in Grid Modernization |
| Reforming New York’s Energy Vision |
Recognizing trends in technological innovation and system security, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo established the Reforming the Energy Vision... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC NewYorkREV-fnl.pdf |
| Reference Interoperability Procurement Language |
Interoperability has important economic benefits, or to put it another way; lack of interoperability has negative economic consequences.... |
January 2020 | Report |
Reference Interoperability Procurement Language |
| Recommended Practice for Characterizing Devices’ Ability to Provide Grid Services |
This document describes a Recommended Practice for characterizing the ability of various types of devices to provide a broad range of existing and... |
March 2017 | Report |
Recommended Practice Grid Services from Devices Ch 1-2.pdf |
| Recommendations for Ohio’s Power Forward Inquiry |
Traditional “cost-of-service” regulation, where the rate of return is set on rate base, gives utilities incentives to invest in additional... |
February 2018 | Deliverable |
Recommendations for Ohio’s Power Forward Inquiry |
| Real-Time Path Rating Relieves Grid Congestion |
With funding from ARPA-E, PNNL and partners at Bonneville Power Administration, PowerWorld, and Quanta Technology used high performance computing... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC RealtimePathRating-fnl.pdf |
| Quadrennial Technology Review | September 2015 | Report | ||
| Quadrennial Energy Review | April 2015 | Report | ||
| Power Model Integrator Reduces Forecasting Errors |
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed a software tool that greatly improves the accuracy of net interchange predictions.... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC PowerModelIntegrator-fnl.pdf |
| PNNL Grid Architecture | January 2016 | Publication | ||
| Outsmarting Storms in Chattanooga |
Through a DOE Smart Grid Investment Grant, EPB secured funding to accelerate the modernization of their power infrastructure, including: ... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC EPB-Chattanooga-fnl.pdf |
| NREL + Duke Energy Test Voltage Control for Distributed Solar |
Duke Energy partnered with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and DMS vendor GE Grid Solutions (formerly Alstom Grid) to better... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC DukeGE-fnl.pdf |
| New Jersey TransitGrid Protects Critical Assets |
Following Superstorm Sandy, rebuild efforts led by rail operators, including the NJ Transit Corporation, focused on protecting transportation... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC NJ TransitGrid-fnl.pdf |
| New Inverter Testing Supports Solar in Hawaii |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) partnered with SolarCity and the DOE Solar Energy Technology Office to quantify the impacts of both... |
August 2016 | Pre-GMLC Highlight |
GMLC SolarCity-fnl.pdf |
| NECPUC Distribution Systems & Planning Training |
The first in a series of regional trainings for public utility commissions on distribution systems and planning was held on Sept. 27-29, 2017, for... |
September 2017 | Training |
NECPUC Distribution Systems & Planning Training |
| National Lab Call 2019 |
Department of Energy's Grid Modernization Lab Call |
May 2019 | Document |
GMI-National-Lab-Call-2019-05-29.pdf |
| Multi-Scale Integration of Control Systems Poster |
The current approach to electric power system operations and controls was developed during the last three to four decades using a piecemeal... |
May 2017 | Publication |
Multi-Scale Integration of Control Systems Poster |