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Monday, June 9th 2025 Mt Holly EV Fleet Depot OES assists Duke Energy/Electrada-led coalition in commissioning a state-of-the-art EV Fleet Depot for testing and ...

Monday, August 5th 2024 OpenFMB PlugFest 3.0 Recap UCA Hosts OpenFMB PlugFest 3.0, Focused on EV Smart Charging OES is a Significant Contributor to the Event The UCA ...

Wednesday, April 17th 2024 OpenDSO™ from Open Energy Solutions, Inc. OpenDSO™ from Open Energy Solutions, Inc. Execution at the Edge™ for a Smarter Grid

Wednesday, April 17th 2024 Optimizing Conservation Voltage Reduction Optimizing Conservation Voltage Reduction on a Bi-directional Grid Using Distributed Intelligence

Friday, February 23rd 2024 OpenFMB™ PlugFest 3.0 The OpenFMB Users Group for UCA International will be organizing its 3rd Plugfest later this year. The foremost event ...

Thursday, February 1st 2024 OpenFMB™ Adapter 2.1 Release OES Releases the Next Generation of its Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) Adapter (v2.1) for Power Grid Asset ...

Thursday, February 1st 2024 OpenFMB™ Adapter 2.1 Release SANTA CLARA, CA - Open Energy Solutions (OES) is pleased to announce the release of its OpenFMB Adapter Toolkit v2.1. ...

Monday, January 1st 2024 OpenDSO™ Open Distributed Systems Operations or OpenDSO Grid Edge Enablement Portfolio is built on best-of- breed open-source ...

Monday, May 8th 2023 Grid Code Enablement and C-HIL Validation of Distributed Energy Resources with OpenFMB™ This paper introduces a methodology to add grid code functionality to legacy DERs with an OpenFMB communication ...

Friday, April 14th 2023 IEEE SoutheastCon 2023 - Orlando - F1A: Power1 Grid Code Enablement and C-HIL Validation of Distributed Energy Resources with OpenFMB™ - Presented by Idrissa ...

Thursday, September 1st 2022 Increasing Distribution System Resiliency using Flexible DER Enabled by OpenFMB™ This SEPA webinar addresses how OpenFMB enabled distributed control in a layered structure within a DOE funded Grid ...

Monday, August 1st 2022 OpenFMB™ PlugFest 2.0 The OpenFMB Message Bus standard was ratified by the North American Energy Standards Board for grid energy ...

Thursday, June 9th 2022 The OpenFMB™ Protobuf Exporter Release The OpenFMB Protobuf Exporter is an Enterprise Architect Add-In to export OpenFMB UML modules or packages as Protocol ...

Friday, January 7th 2022 A Framework for Coordinated Self-Assembly of Networked Microgrids Using Consensus Algorithm With the rapidly increasing deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs), electric power systems across the world ...

Friday, January 7th 2022 A Framework for Coordinated Self-Assembly of Networked Microgrids Using Consensus Algorithms IEEE Xplore Publication Alert

Friday, November 5th 2021 Announcing the OpenDSO™ Early Adopter Virtual Meeting SANTA CLARA, CA - Open Energy Solutions (OES) is pleased to announce the Early Adopter Kick-off session for its ...

Thursday, August 12th 2021 Increasing Grid Resilience Under Differing Distributed Control Architectures Recently, we’ve written about PNNL’s innovative work to demonstrate how a utility power system can safely operate ...

Tuesday, June 1st 2021 OES Releases Open-Source OpenFMB™ Adapter SANTA CLARA, CA - Open Energy Solutions (OES) has just completed an open-source release of its OpenFMB Adapter and ...

Tuesday, June 1st 2021 UCA International Users Group – An Overview In the IEC 61850 community, the UCA International Users Group (UCAIug) is best known for providing test lab ...

Monday, May 17th 2021 OpenFMB™ Framework OES is providing an open source release of its adapter and associated tools for customizing, configuring, deploying, ...

Thursday, March 11th 2021 Centralized and Distributed Controls for Increasing Resilience How does a utility prove that its operational power system can safely increase system flexibility and resilience by ...

Thursday, February 11th 2021 IEEE Smart Grid Webinar Scaling and Securing the Future Electric Grid with OpenFMB™

Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 T&D World: Grid Edge Innovation Transitioning from Lab to Field Project aims to demonstrate how a utility operational power system can safely function using a control system ...

Monday, November 30th 2020 CRADA Final Report: Open Microgrid Platform ORNL has worked with Open Energy Solutions (OES) to advance the transition of ORNL’s existing open-source microgrid ...

Thursday, November 5th 2020 CIGRE Academy Webinar Session 1 | Enabling Distributed Intelligence with the Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB™) Framework

Tuesday, September 1st 2020 Citadels GMLC - Citadels

Thursday, June 18th 2020 Virtual Utility Summit 2020 In June, 2020, OES participated in the Virtual Utility Summit 2020 put together by Cisco Systems and Burns & McDonnell ...

Monday, March 2nd 2020 OES at Power & Energy Conference OES participated in one of the last in person conferences held “pre-pandemic.” Wade Malcolm of OES presented on ...

Wednesday, January 1st 2020 NIST Technical Note 2085 Workshop on Smart Grid Interoperability Testing and Certification

Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 Grid Modernization Initiative - Program Update GMLC 1.5.03 Increasing Distribution System Resiliency using Flexible DER and Microgrid Assets Enabled by OpenFMB™

Wednesday, June 5th 2019 Curtis Kirkeby, Stuart Laval - Utilities collaborate on open-source software The electric utility industry is increasingly challenged by external drivers such as regulatory obligations and ...

Wednesday, May 29th 2019 2019 Grid Modernization Lab Call Awards The Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community report—presented to Congress by the Director of ...

Friday, May 24th 2019 DER Control with Grid Edge Analytics Entergy creates new approaches to better manage the grid that involve more distributed energy resources.

Monday, March 25th 2019 BIC to become first commercial testing facility for certification of new energy grid language The Battery Innovation Center, a testing and evaluation lab for energy storage systems in southern Indiana, has ...

Monday, March 18th 2019 What OpenDSP Means to the Future OpenDSP software will allow utilities to integrate, coordinate and optimize diverse assets more efficiently and ...

Tuesday, February 5th 2019 DistribuTech Notebook: Duke Energy, OpenFMB™ and Building a ‘Smartphone for the Grid’ Duke’s push for a common technology to allow coordinated responses from distributed energy resources is starting to ...

Tuesday, February 5th 2019 Sierra Wireless Demonstrates Next-Generation Intelligent Edge Technology for Smart Grids at DistribuTECH 2019 Sierra Wireless leads collaboration to commercialize the containerization of applications on edge LTE routers to ...

Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 Duke Energy, Avista invest in open source software for utility smart grid platforms Duke Energy has teamed up with Avista Development, a subsidiary of Avista Corp. based in Spokane, Wash., to develop ...

Saturday, January 19th 2019 Avista, Duke Energy invest in grid edge software technology to deliver benefits to customers Investment will create first collaborative, utility-led development of “open source” software for utility smart grid ...

Thursday, January 17th 2019 Avista, Duke Energy Invest in Grid-Edge Software to Deliver Benefits to Customers Avista Development, owned by Avista Corp. and Duke Energy, has announced a joint investment in Open Energy Solutions ...

Tuesday, January 15th 2019 Avista and Duke Energy Join Forces for Open Energy Solutions Avista and Duke Energy Join Forces for Open Energy Solutions: Comments from Curt Kirkeby

Friday, January 11th 2019 What's behind Duke Energy's joint utility investment in software startup Duke Energy Corp. and Washington-based Avista Corp. have announced a joint investment in a California startup that is ...

Thursday, January 10th 2019 Avista, Duke Energy support grid-edge software Itochu's OES to 'fill gap' in open source solutions -- Avista Development, a wholly owned unregulated subsidiary of ...

Wednesday, January 9th 2019 Avista, Duke Energy invest in grid edge software technology to deliver benefits to customers Investment will create first collaborative, utility-led development of “open source” software for utility smart grid ...

Thursday, December 13th 2018 A USB port for the grid: OpenFMB™ One of the thorniest issues of integrating distributed energy resources (DERs), microgrids and other advanced ...

Thursday, July 20th 2017 OpenFMB™ charts new paths for grid-edge interoperability and communication In February 2016, more than 1,000 people at the annual DistribuTECH conference watched a team representing 25 ...

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