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INL helped install a microgrid capable of powering an American Red Cross disaster shelter on Blue Lake Rancheria land during an emergency.
INL’s test lab includes heat and electricity producers, thermal and electrical storage, and multiple heat and electricity customers via a thermal and electrical network.
Wind energy researchers at Idaho National Laboratory believe moving more electricity through existing transmission and distribution lines is both possible and practical.
Two flow battery units allow researchers to study the batteries’ ability to stabilize renewable energy within microgrids and interact with larger-scale grids.
INL researchers are developing a Java-based software package called General Line Ampacity State Solver (GLASS), which calculates real-time ampacity and thermal conductor limits.
INL led the creation of an eight-laboratory GRSL that will study how electricity can be rerouted across vast distances to address disruptions.
INL researchers developed the Hydropower Technology Catalog, a digital, online interface that guides users to technologies that expand generation at existing sites and identify components or structures needed for new projects.
The Dynamic Energy Transport and Integration Laboratory (DETAIL) will link a grid simulator with a simulated nuclear plant.
INL is leading a research effort evaluating the ability of run-of-river hydropower to provide grid balancing through integration with an energy storage system.
INL’s energy system testing integrates simulation, storage systems, a renewable energy microgrid, load control capabilities and full-scale testing.
Adding hydropower generation to a small fraction of existing non-powered dams represents a significant opportunity to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions with minimal environmental impact. To realize this opportunity, researchers at INL and PNNL developed an interactive, web-based tool.
Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, are helping the private sector accelerate the modernization of irrigation systems through the publicly available tool IrrigationViz.
INL’s PERL is equipped with tools to test, validate and develop solutions for recent challenges facing the modern power grid.
INL Power and Energy Systems researchers helped build a system to maintain and restore power after a catastrophic event or a cyberattack.
Idaho National Laboratory researchers developed a hybrid system that harnesses the power of water and energy storage.
A simulated control room allows engineers to evaluate how operators interact with technology to make the grid safer and more efficient.
INL's Electrochemical Processing and Electrocatalysis (EPEC) Lab helps researchers discover better ways to convert inexpensive materials to higher value chemicals, fuels and hydrogen.
INL's Thermal Energy Delivery System demonstrates flexible heat transfer for power generation, energy storage and other industrial uses.
INL's Transmission Line Modeling Tool Suite uses advanced systems that work together to increase power line efficiency.
Idaho National Laboratory researchers are working with the simulation company WindSim to develop a new wind atlas method using specialized software.
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