Electric power / smart grid

News and Updates

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 Communications

The Smart Grid can be defined as an electric system that uses information, two-way, cyber-secure communication technologies, and computational intelligence in

Power Quality Measurements and Fault Detection and Identification

The main objective of this project is to develop research and proof-of-concept investigations into the underlying principles of a power grid protection strategy

Wireless M2M Network For Power Grid

With the massive integration of distributed renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power system, the demand for timely and reliable network monitoring

Combined Grid Communication Testbed Implementation for Real-time Measurement, Calibration, and Communication

The main objective in this project is to implement a flexible and programmable research testbed that can support deployment of a wide ranging sensory device

Publications

Summary Report on NIST Smart Grid Testbeds and Collaborations Workshops

March 3, 2021

Author(s)

Avi Gopstein, Allen R. Goldstein, Dhananjay Anand, Paul A. Boynton

This report captures feedback from two workshops that NIST conducted to determine the challenges and opportunities in the use and design of Smart Grid Testbeds

Integrated Sensor Data Processing for Occupancy Detection in Residential Buildings

February 22, 2021

Author(s)

Chenli Wang, Jun Jiang, Thomas P. Roth, Cuong Nguyen, Yuhong Liu, Hohyun Lee

Based on the data from U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the total annual energy consumed by buildings in the United States has increased by 325%

Characterization of residential circuit impedance

February 17, 2021

Author(s)

Dhananjay Anand, Md Amimul Ehsan, Wenqi Guo

Electrical harmonics associated with switching power electronics have been observed to induce electromagnetic interference with equipment sharing the same

Quantifying Operational Resilience Benefits of the Smart Grid

February 9, 2021

Author(s)

Cheyney O'Fallon, Avi Gopstein

Automated systems for network protection, outage management, and restoration enable utilities to maintain service continuity through network reconfiguration

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