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Voices of Experience: Microgrids for Resiliency
This report in the 'Voices of Experience' series compiles lessons learned from utilities, communities, and developers about using microgrids to enhance resilience against grid disruptions. It covers topics such as microgrid design, technology selection, financing, regulatory consi...
NREL, S. NLR
Oct 31, 2020
Tribal Microgrids Support Tenuous Lifelines During Grid Shutdowns
This piece explains how microgrids developed by tribal nations keep essential community services running when the bulk grid fails. By combining local renewable generation and storage, these microgrids power water systems, medical clinics, communications centers, and emergency shel...
Peterson, K. Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs
Oct 07, 2021
User Objectives and Design Approaches for Microgrids: Options for Delivering Reliability and Resilience, Clean Energy, Energy Savings, and Other Priorities
This briefing paper, produced by NARUC and NASEO's Microgrids State Working Group, explores why different customers pursue microgrids and how design choices affect outcomes. Microgrids can operate in grid-connected or islanded mode, using local generation, storage and controls to ...
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, N.
Dec 31, 2020
Marine Energy Atlas
NREL's Marine Energy Atlas provides high resolution spatial data on marine renewable energy resources, including wave power density, tidal streams, and ocean currents, along with bathymetry and environmental layers. Users can navigate the map to view resource intensity, identify...
NLR
Dec 31, 2025
Global Wind Atlas
Developed by the Technical University of Denmark and the World Bank, the Global Wind Atlas offers freely accessible maps of wind resource potential worldwide. Using mesoscale modeling and microscale downscaling, the atlas provides data layers showing mean wind speeds, wind power d...
Badger, J. et al World Bank Group
Dec 31, 2024
Powering Up Data Centers Discussion Series
Hosted by the National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO), the Powering Up Data Centers series features discussions on energy efficiency, renewable integration, and resilience strategies for data centers. The webinars bring together experts from government, industry, an...
National Association of State Energy Officials
Dec 31, 2024
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A Novel Resilience-Oriented Cellular Grid Formation Approach for Distribution Systems with Behind-the-Meter Distributed Energy Resources
This paper presents a resilience-oriented cellular grid formation approach to achieve scalable and reconfigurable community microgrid operations for distribution systems with behind-the-meter distributed energy resources. A set of interconnected solar photovoltaics, energy storage...
Kumar, U. and Ding, F. NLR
Dec 31, 2022
Identifying Best Performance Scenarios for Micro Nuclear Reactors During Grid Disruption
Micro Nuclear Reactors (MNRs) are an emerging innovation in nuclear technology as small, portable, and self-sufficient reactor units in the size of a standard 40-foot shipping container. An MNR functions as a “nuclear battery,” where each unit can power load capacities from 50...
Ivey, C. et al U.S. Army
Apr 30, 2024
Self-Organizing Map-Based Resilience Quantification and Resilient Control of Distribution Systems Under Extreme Events
Due to climate change, extreme weather events are occurring more frequently and with increasing impact. This trend poses a significant challenge for distribution system operators (DSO) to ensure that there is uninterrupted power supply to critical loads in their networks. To embed...
Utkarsh, K. and Ding, F. NLR
May 01, 2022
Microgrid Modeling with Small Modular Reactors: Decarbonizing University Campus Microgrids through Optimal Deployment of Nuclear Power Reactors
This report explores the decarbonization of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus microgrid through the optimal deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). The primary objective is to assess the technical and economic feasibility of integrating SMRs, Battery E...
Grunloh, T. et al University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jun 30, 2024
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