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Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT)
Sandia National Laboratories' Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT) is a decision support tool that helps engineers design microgrids to meet user-defined objectives. It integrates load modeling, renewable and conventional generation options, energy storage, and control strategies to eva...
Sandia National Laboratories
Dec 31, 2024
Microgrid Conceptual Design Guidebook (2022)
This 2022 ETIPP guidebook from Sandia National Laboratories provides a structured approach to conceptual microgrid design. It walks planners through defining objectives, identifying critical loads, assessing site resources, and selecting appropriate generation, storage, and contro...
Garcia, B. et al Sandia National Laboratories
Mar 31, 2022
uGrid: Reliable Minigrid Design and Planning Toolset for Rural Electrification
Introduces uGrid, an open-source minigrid design and planning toolset created with minigrid developers to support rural electrification. Integrates equipment sizing and resource allocation with uGridNet for distribution network layout and reliability cost–benefit analysis, inclu...
Cicilio, P. et al Oregon State University
Nov 10, 2019
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
Microgrids for Energy Resilience: A Guide to Conceptual Design and Lessons from Defense Projects
This playbook from the Rocky Mountain Institute offers a comprehensive framework for regulators, utilities, and developers to design and implement non-wires solutions (NWS). NWS are alternatives to conventional grid infrastructure upgrades that use distributed resources, demand re...
Booth, S. et al NLR
Dec 31, 2019
The Impact of Short-term Stochastic Variability in Solar Irradiance on Optimal Microgrid Design
This paper proposes a new methodology to capture the impact of fast moving clouds on utility power demand charges observed in microgrids with photovoltaic (PV) arrays, generators, and electrochemical energy storage. It consists of a statistical approach to introduce sub-hourly eve...
Schittekatte, T. et al University of Madrid
May 02, 2018
Security-Constrained Design of Isolated Multi-Energy Microgrids
Energy supply in rural and off-grid communities has traditionally relied on diesel-based microgrids, due to limited access. But global environmental concerns are pushing for the transformation of these systems into renewable-based microgrids. This transition to more complex system...
Mashayekh, S. et al Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mar 31, 2018
Networked Microgrid Optimal Design and Operations Tool: Regulatory and Business Environment Study
Microgrids increase the reliability of the electric supply at the distribution level by combining multiple power generation assets, storage systems, and loads. Networking two or more microgrids has the potential to increase reliability more efficiently and at a lower cost by takin...
Flores-Espino, F. et al NLR
Apr 30, 2020
REopt
REopt is a techno-economic optimization platform developed by NREL that recommends optimal sizes and dispatch strategies for distributed energy resources including solar photovoltaics, wind turbines, batteries, and thermal technologies based on site specific load profiles, utility...
NLR
Dec 31, 2025
System Advisor Model (SAM) General Description (Version 2017.9.5)
This document provides a general description of the System Advisor Model (SAM) version 2017.9.5. It explains the software's purpose as a free techno-economic modeling tool for evaluating renewable energy projects, including photovoltaic, wind, concentrating solar, geothermal, and ...
Keith, J. et al NLR
May 01, 2018
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