Electric power / smart grid

News and Updates

Impeding the Impedance: Research Reveals How to Design a Better Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Battery

November 16, 2021

The newest generation of lithium-ion batteries now under development promises a revolution in powering cell phones, electric vehicles, laptops and myriad other

New NIST Framework Strives for Cleaner, More Secure Power Grid

February 18, 2021

Whether it’s a new set of solar panels glistening on a neighbor’s roof or a freshly installed smart thermostat at home, burgeoning renewable and smart

Making Smokestack Emissions Tests Better, Faster, Cheaper

February 27, 2018

Smokestacks at coal-fired power plants have sensors that continuously monitor their emissions by measuring the flow of gases such as carbon dioxide, mercury

Industry Impacts

Cityscape in the background. Solar panels in the foreground.

Framing the Future of the Electric Grid

The U.S. electrical distribution system is a patchwork of 100+ years of upgrades that create basic reliability issues and expose entire regions to unnecessary

Projects and Programs

Smart Grid Interoperability Testbed Facility

Ongoing

NIST is charged by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) with facilitation of interoperability standards to enable successful implementation of

Synchrophasor Networks for Grid monitoring

Ongoing

Synchrophasor data measurements are envisioned to be a key enabler for real-time power grid situational awareness and control. Currently, Phasor Measurement

Collaborative Microgrid for Smart Buildings

Ongoing

The recent availability of smart home appliances supported by communicant networking has been the main force behind the growing interest in developing advanced

Spectrum Tracking in Power Grid Systems

Ongoing

A major challenge for future wide area measurement systems is how to efficiently monitor and control the power system, which requires accurate and real-time

Publications

Distributed Energy Resource Security: Potential Guidelines and Research Topics

October 6, 2021

Author(s)

Avi Gopstein, Nelson Hastings, Larry Feldman, Ravi Agarwal, Nadya Bartol

This paper describes an effort to validate the applicability of cybersecurity controls from the 2014 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Benefits of an Updated Mapping between the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards

September 29, 2021

Author(s)

Jeffrey Marron, Avi Gopstein, Daniel Bogle

This white paper highlights a recent mapping effort between the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)

Load Forecasting Tool for NIST Transactive Energy Market

September 27, 2021

Author(s)

Farhad Omar, David Holmberg

Customers and transactive energy (TE) market managers may rely on load forecasting algorithms to purchase or sell power in a forward market environment, using

Validation Capabilities of the NIST Campus Power System to Evaluate Distributed Control of Grid-Edge Distributed Energy Resources

August 11, 2021

Author(s)

Dhananjay Anand, Md Amimul Ehsan, Collin Freiheit, Thomas C. Linn, Tzong Hao Chen

This report outlines NIST's validation tools, developed to help address the smart grid'semergent needs and complement research and standards coordination

Tools and Instruments

Apparatus for the Measurement of High Temperature Thermoelectric Transport Properties

The Seebeck coefficient is a physical parameter routinely measured to identify the potential thermoelectric performance of a material. However, researchers