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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
Severe Weather Resilience in Solar Photovoltaic System Design
This DOE report, authored by a consortium of national laboratories including Los Alamos, PNNL, LBNL, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge, and NREL, reviews state-of-the-art models and tools for microgrid planning, design, and operational analysis. It categorizes tools by functio...
Program, M. U.S. Department of Energy
Dec 31, 2025
IEC 61850 Substation Design and Testing: 2 Part Webinar Series
Recorded webinar presenting key concepts, frameworks, and implementation considerations of substations with examples and references for practice. The material includes references and practical considerations intended to guide adoption and implementation.
Brunner, C. and Moore, J. it4Power
Dec 31, 2022
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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
Design and Scheduling of Microgrids using Benders Decomposition
The distribution feeder laterals in a distribution feeder with relatively high PV generation as compared to the load can be operated as microgrids to achieve reliability, power quality and economic benefits. However, renewable resources are intermittent and stochastic in nature. A...
Nagarajan, A. and Ayyanar, R. NLR
Dec 31, 2015
Guide to Developing Resilience Hubs
Provides step-by-step planning and design guidance for Resilience Hubs, with governance models, partnerships, and interoperability considerations. Offers templates and examples to support program setup and continuity of operations.
Baja, K. Urban Sustainability Directors Network
Jan 01, 2019
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
Design of a State Machine for Smooth Microgrid Transition Operation
A state machine is proposed in the energy management system (EMS) of a microgrid as the solution for smooth microgrid's transition operation. This state machine includes six 'states' that cover all the operating modes during the microgrid's transition operation: two basic modes (g...
Wang, J. et al NLR
Jul 02, 2018
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