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 |
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| Sensor Network Issues for Advanced Power Grids |
The traditional techniques for distribution grid data acquisition are facing challenges that are structural in nature as the number of end points... |
December 2017 | Report | |
| Interoperability Roadmap Methodology |
The Interoperability Roadmap Methodology document supports the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC)... |
December 2017 | Report |
 Interoperability Roadmap Methodology, V1.1 |
| Sate Engagement in Electric Distribution System Planning | December 2017 | Report |
State Engagement in Electric Distribution System Planning |
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| Connecticut Green Bank Residential Solar PV + Energy Storage Analysis |
This analysis considers the dispatch strategy which maximizes behind-the-meter storage savings for the home owner customer. |
December 2017 | Presentation |
Connecticut Green Bank Residential Solar PV + Energy Storage Analysis |
| Customer bill impacts of energy efficiency and net-metered photovoltaic system investments |
Utility regulators and ... |
December 2017 | Journal Article |
Customer bill impacts of energy efficiency and net-metered photovoltaic system investments |
| GridAPPS-D Conceptual Design, V1.0 | November 2017 | Report | ||
| DER Telemetry Communication Architecture for ESOs, DSOs, and System Operators |
For proposed future states of electric power systems that have high penetrations of Distributed Energy Resources (DER), system operators with... |
November 2017 | Report | |
| DER Siting and Optimization Tool for California |
The State of California is pursuing aggressive goals for integrating 15 gigawatts of distributed energy resources (DERs), including 12 gigawatts... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
DER Siting and Optimization Tool for California |
| Grid Analysis and Design for Energy and Infrastructure Resiliency for New Orleans |
The heightened risk coastal cities like New Orleans, Lousiana (NOLA) encounter from hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters is never... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Grid Analysis and Design for Energy and Infrastructure Resiliency for New Orleans |
| Standards and Test Procedures for Interconnection and Interoperability |
Next-generation smart grid technologies include distributed generation, battery storage, electric vehicles, and dispatchable loads, among others.... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Standards and Test Procedures for Interconnection and Interoperability |
| Advanced Sensor Development |
Increased situational awareness of the vast U.S. electrical system is critical for achieving the grid modernization objectives of reducing outage... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Advanced Sensor Development |
| Integrated Multiscale Data Analytics and Machine Learning for the Grid |
Advances in and reduced costs for computing, memory, and communications technologies have resulted in an abundance of raw data from new sensing... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Integrated Multiscale Data Analytics and Machine Learning for the Grid |
| Development of Integrated Transmission, Distribution, and Communications Models |
Industry must better understand the interdependencies among grid subsystems—the transmission, distribution, and communication, or TDC, domains—... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Development of Integrated Transmission, Distribution, and Communications Models |
| Extreme Event Modeling |
Extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2003 Northeast blackout, provide hard evidence of the enormous threats... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Extreme Event Modeling |
| Computational Science for Grid Management |
Electric utilities and operators of the modern grid face complex challenges. For example, distributed energy leads to greater uncertainty of... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Computational Science for Grid Management |
| Threat Detection and Response with Data Analytics |
Large amounts of data related to regional outages, cyber health, distribution sensors, and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) are gathered... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Threat Detection and Response with Data Analytics |
| Development and Deployment of Multi-Scale Production Cost Models |
U.S. power systems are evolving rapidly because of technological advancements in computing, communications, energy storage and conversion, and... |
October 2017 | Fact Sheet |
Development and Deployment of Multi-Scale Production Cost Models |
| The Impact of 5G Telecommunications Technology on US Grid Modernization 2017 - 2025 | October 2017 | Report | ||
| Value-Added Electricity Services: New Roles for Utilities and Third-Party Providers |
New energy generation, storage, delivery, and end-use technologies support a broad range of value-added electricity services for retail... |
October 2017 | Report |
Value-Added Electricity Services: New Roles for Utilities and Third-Party Providers |
| Do Utilities Have Right Incentives to Modernize Grid? |
Electric power is our most capital-intensive industry, with more than a hundred billion dollars invested each year on infrastructure, according to... |
October 2017 | Publication |
Public Utilities Fortnightly Article: Do Utilities Have Right Incentives to Modernize Grid? |