A historic legacy now translates to pioneering capabilities in electric grid technology at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The secure electrical infrastructure that enabled ...

Appropriate maintenance, testing, and power quality monitoring are critical to ensure chargers operate properly as well as to negate the additional stress and potential negative impact EV chargers ...

Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing involves simulation of power plant behavior using the actual site-specific power plant controls before the commissioning stage. HIL testing can benefit all project ...

The rapidly developing industry of renewable power generation can be compared to an hourglass. Inexhaustible supplies of free resources — sun and wind — are converted into a corresponding outflow of ...

Field testing in a portion of ORNL’s campus grid allows validation of a new grid architecture and control platform at utility scale for rapid transfer to industry partners. A historic legacy now ...