Deep Learning Trains Buildings to Optimize Efficiency
New approach allows nonexperts to optimize control of a building's energy systems without adding computing power or proprietary software.
Economic Dispatch
PNNL’s technology for Economic Dispatch links a building’s cooling, heating, and power system to broader electricity supply and demand factors.
An Electric Connection: Homes Helping the Grid
A new control system shows promise in making millions of homes contributors to improved power grid operations, reaping cost and environmental benefits.
PNNL Researchers Use Machine Learning to Study Beam Outages
The multi-year project funded by DOE’s High Energy Physics program will focus on using machine learning to prevent power outages.
Next-gen Solvents Capture Carbon with Half the Energy
Power plants could capture their carbon emissions while using half the energy of traditional carbon capture methods with water-lean carbon capture solvents.
Integrated Building Assets
PNNL's unique integrated building assets include the Systems Engineering Building, Thermal Energy Storage System, Power Electronics Laboratory, two large batteries, and electric vehicle chargers.
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Energy and Environment
Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a modeling approach that harnesses the power of machine learning and big data to improve the understanding of coupled, dynamic systems.
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Helps Industry Develop Secure Grid Technologies
PNNL created an assessment method and maturity model that helps manufacturers building products for the power grid implement consistent cybersecurity best practices throughout their development lifecycle.
Grid Research Just One Highlight for New PNNL Director
Led by Battelle in collaboration with the Bonneville Power Administration, the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project is the largest field test of smart grid systems to date.
Texas Winter Grid Strain Spared by High-Efficiency Heat Pumps
Research that modeled increased heat pump adoption alongside climate change impacts in Texas showed that high-efficiency heat pumps buffer the strain that electric heating might put on the power grid.