Funded Research

Universal Interoperability for Grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium

Sponsored by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC/NREL

Iqbal Husain
Srdjan Miodrag Lukic
David Lee Lubkeman

Project runs from 02/10/2022 to 12/31/2026
$750,000

Co-led by NREL, University of Washington, and EPRI, the Universal Interoperability for grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium will address fundamental challenges & develop solutions to seamlessly integrate grid-forming (GFM) inverters into electric grids alongside machines and other inverter-based resources (IBRs) at any scale. UNIFI will engage researchers, industry partners, utilities, and other stakeholders to form an ecosystem that will adopt a systems-oriented approach to conduct research, development, & demonstration; define functions to prove vendor-agnostic interoperability while conforming to system rules; & develop workforce training courses for planning, designing, & operating grids with high level of GFM IBRs.

Srdjan Lukic

Srdjan Lukic

Professor

 Keystone Science Center 100-22
  smlukic@ncsu.edu
David Lubkeman

David Lubkeman

Research Professor Emeritus

 Keystone Science Center 100-21
  david_lubkeman@ncsu.edu
Iqbal Husain

Iqbal Husain

ABB Distinguished Professor
Director, FREEDM Center

 100-19 Keystone Science Center
  iqbal_husain@ncsu.edu