RedEye (iEdison No. 0685901-22-0161)
Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Platform (ARPA-E iEdison No. 0685901-20-0007)
A software for a multi-challenge power-flow grid optimization competition was developed. The platform brings together high performance computing clusters, webservers, databases, competition datasets, schedulers, evaluation codes, and a multitude of language compilers and optimization solvers to host the competition. The original video announcing the competition, from former Secretary Perry, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZwX3P9vS8M More information at the following link, which includes the ranking of the teams (overall) and a video by U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/department-energy-announces-grid-optimization-competition-challenge-1-winners
Transactive Network System Template Implemented on Volttron Communication Platforms
Inventors developed an object-oriented UML design and corresponding codes that facilitate configuring and operating each agent within a network of a decentralized transactive electricity multi-agent system of systems. The code is being tested on the PNNL campus to coordinate the roles of buildings, the PNNL campus, and the municipality. The network creates dynamic electricity prices at each node to represent the dynamic influences of electricity supply, demand charges, losses, and potentially unlimited other local objectives. The code is a template in that it intends to facilitate adoption and extensibility for future code users.
Archive Walker Software
The Archive Walker software is a MATLAB-based tool to analyze sets of archived phasor measurement unit (PMU) data for specific event types, and condense those into a summary report. The idea is to summarize information on events in the data for quick browsing and searching, such that the engineer can determine exactly what events occurred on the system and which data sets to grab, rather than having to manually check it all. Event types detected and examined included forced oscillations, out of range events, wind ramping events, and oscillatory ringdown events.
EMSL Arrows - Software Portal (Open Source)
The code receives requests to perform chemistry calculations. The received request is then compared to a database of existing calculations. Any additional needed calculations are then sent off to an appropriate computer for calculation using NWChem. For example, the calculation can be done using PIC's Olympus computer. Knowledge of the different computers is built into the software. Once all the necessary computations are done the result is returned to the sender. Right now the code receives requests via email. Requests can be single energies or reactions. The code also can scan twitter feeds for requested reactions.