Electric power / smart grid

News and Updates

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

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

Smart Grid Wireless Network Security

To enhance network protection against attack, a periodic key refreshment and distribution strategy for better network security has been investigated. While the

State Estimation for Uncertain Power Systems

The expected penetration of a large number of renewable distributed energy resources (DERs) is driving next generation power systems toward uncertainties that

Publications

Design of a Direct-Contact Thermal Energy Storage Heat Exchanger for the NIST Net-Zero Residential Test Facility

July 29, 2020

Author(s)

Mark A. Kedzierski, Lingnan Lin

Faster, More Accurate, Stack-Flow Measurements

February 25, 2020

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, Iosif I. Shinder, Bernard J. Filla, Joey T. Boyd, Rodney A. Bryant, Michael R. Moldover, Thomaa D. Martz, Matthew Gentry

Exhaust flows from coal-fired electricity-generating-plants are determined by measuring the flue gas velocity at prescribed points in the stack cross section

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Communications and Data Analytics in the Smart Grid

January 31, 2020

Author(s)

Hamid Gharavi

The Smart Grid represents an unprecedented opportunity to move the electric grid into a new era of reliability, availability, and efficiency. It uses two-way

Workshop on Smart Grid Interoperability Testing and Certification

January 31, 2020

Author(s)

Cuong T. Nguyen, Avi M. Gopstein

New smart grid architectures, devices, systems, and applications require extensive data exchange, necessitating well-defined interfaces to transfer and

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