Publications

Read up on NLR's research at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF).

Energy Systems Integration News

A monthly recap of the latest happenings at the ESIF and developments in energy systems integration research at the lab and around the world.

Featured Publications

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Vulcan Test Platform: Demonstrating the Data Center as a Flexible Grid Asset, NLR Technical Report (2025)

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Overcurrent Limiting in Grid-Forming Inverters: A Comprehensive Review and Discussion, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2024)

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Hardware-in-the-Loop Using Electromagnetic Transient Simulation, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (2025)

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Anomaly Detection and Mitigation for Dynamic Frequency Regulation in Hydropower-Battery Systems, IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (2024)

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Generative AI for Power Grid Operations, NLR Technical Report (2024)

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An Introduction to the Federated Architecture for Secure and Transactive Distributed Energy Management Solutions: Preprint, 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2024)

2025 ESIF Stewardship Summary

In 2025, ESIF hosted 190 multidisciplinary projects with 81 partners. Our research advanced key priorities for secure, reliable, and affordable power, with an added emphasis on data centers, domestic manufacturing, and bringing the benefits of artificial intelligence to power systems planning and operations. Read more in our summary.

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