Long Story Short: John Nangle on the Research Data Network System (Text Version)

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>>John Nangle, Project Manager, National Laboratory of the Rockies: The landscape of energy is changing very rapidly through new technology developments, increasing digitalization of the system, and then AI is rapidly being integrated into the systems to help manage this new set of complexity.

So, the U.S. energy system is one of the most complex machines ever built. So, facilities like the ESIF, the Energy Systems Integration Facility, were constructed specifically to help get a bigger picture of what this whole system operates like.

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This is a state-of-the-art building, where new technologies can be developed, new technologies can be tested with real-world power hardware equipment, and new innovations can be brought to market.

These complex systems generate lots of data. So, one of the ways that the lab manages these diverse streams of data that we generate through research is through the RDNS, or the Research Data Network System. It gives researchers a single pane of glass into their research so they can see everything that's going on for all the distributed energy systems in one place.

So, a good example of this is through a project that we did with a group of industry partners, who were struggling to get different generation technologies to interoperate. And what this system does is it gives researchers a real-time view and perspective on all of the different equipment that's spread out throughout the facility.

During a demonstration of this project to our research partners, the discussion quickly changed to asking questions about well, what if this happens, and what are the really cool things about this was that the researcher was able to in real-time, make changes to the system through this capability that we built and start to answer these questions in real-time for our research partners.

So, one of the goals of our RDNS is just to help reduce the friction inherent in research and help accelerate the work that our researchers do. And through this, helping to move new technologies out of the lab and into marketplace, and helping the whole nation move towards a more affordable and reliable energy system.

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