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 evaluate microgrid performance metrics such as reliability, cost, and resilience. MDT features a co-simulation environment that models both the electrical and thermal behavior of microgrid components and supports what if analyses of different configurations. It is used by utilities, military bases, and remote communities to design microgrids that optimize energy use, enhance resilience, and reduce emissions.
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AB - 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 evaluate microgrid performance metrics such as reliability, cost, and resilience. MDT features a co-simulation environment that models both the electrical and thermal behavior of microgrid components and supports what if analyses of different configurations. It is used by utilities, military bases, and remote communities to design microgrids that optimize energy use, enhance resilience, and reduce emissions.
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DB - C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - Battery energy storage
KW - Solar
KW - Photovoltaics
KW - PV
KW - Diesel generators
KW - Other liquid-fuel generators
KW - Wind energy
KW - Financing
KW - Business models
KW - Planning and design
KW - Planning
KW - Design
KW - Power plant controls
KW - SCADA
LA - English
DA - 2025/01/01
PY - 2025
PB - Sandia National Laboratories
T1 - Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT)
UR - https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/247
ER -
. Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT). Sandia National Laboratories, 1 January, 2025, C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/247.
. (2025). Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT). [Data set]. C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. Sandia National Laboratories. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/247
. Microgrid Design Toolkit (MDT). Sandia National Laboratories, January, 1, 2025. Distributed by C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/247
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abstractNote = {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 evaluate microgrid performance metrics such as reliability, cost, and resilience. MDT features a co-simulation environment that models both the electrical and thermal behavior of microgrid components and supports what if analyses of different configurations. It is used by utilities, military bases, and remote communities to design microgrids that optimize energy use, enhance resilience, and reduce emissions.},
url = {https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/247},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange, Sandia National Laboratories, https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/247},
note = {Accessed: 2026-08-07}
}
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Data from Jan 1, 2025
Last updated Mar 30, 2026
Submitted Jun 2, 2026
Organization
Sandia National Laboratories
Contact
John Eddy
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