Much of our work focuses questions about how energy systems work now, and how they could work in the future. For example, we study new pathways for transmission planning, how effectively utilities have prevented wildfires in the past, how many new distribution grid investments might be needed to meet goals for electrifying buildings and transportation, and how grid capacity for electrified loads varies with the racial and economic composition of communities. Other parts of our research aim to develop new methods in modeling, optimization, and control of power systems. For example, we’ve worked on EV, battery, and demand response control and optimization. We’ve also worked on simulation tools for fast time-scale power system transients, and we are currently using those tools to understand the best way to simulate power systems with a large number of power electronic converters.

Our work ranges from applied to theoretical. Sometimes we use third-party simulation platforms; sometimes we build our own simulation tools.

Our code and models are available through our GitHub organization.

Selected Projects

Project descriptions coming soon.

Publications

A full list of publications is available on Duncan’s Google Scholar.