On this page, you can access information about all our in-person and virtual events as well as catch up on the recognitions we have been honored to receive, popular press coverage our work has garnered, annual newsletters, and blog posts and articles our team members have authored.
Seminar series
The UNIFI seminar series is the venue to learn about the latest and greatest in grid-forming technology from leading experts in academia, industry, research labs, and regulatory agencies from around the world. The seminars are organized live every academic Fall and Spring semester at 3 PM Central Time. If you are unable to join us live, feel free to browse through our YouTube channel to see archived presentations from past series.
in the news
WECC approves GFM Models Developed by PNNL
The Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) recently approved new GFM models, REGFM_A1 and REGFM_B1, developed by PNNL. This is anticipated[...]
Press release about UNIFI and IEEE-ISTO
IEEE-ISTO announces formation of the UNIFI consortium. This will accelerate our efforts to scale this critical technology!
Baker Brief on GFM and the Next-Generation Power Grid
Julie Cohn discusses the latest UNIFI work efforts and provides historical context on multi-vendor experiments.
IEEE Spectrum Article on Grid-forming Technology & unifi
In this IEEE Spectrum article, Ben Kroposki and Andy Hoke from NREL opine on the benefits of GFM technology, and[...]
Article by Becca Jones-Albertus about Grid-forming Technology & unifi
Connections between grid-forming technology, grid reliability, solar energy (and unifi's role in it all) brought out by Dr. Becca Jones-Albertus,[...]
Policy Brief by Julie Cohn about Grid-forming Technology
Insightful policy brief by Julie Cohn about Grid-forming Technology and unifi published by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
Annual newsletters
Meetings
unifi Annual Meeting (February 2024)
by: Sairaj- unifi team members were hosted by Brian Johnson at the University of Texas Austin on February 6-7 for[...]
unifi General Meeting (July 2023)
by: Sairaj & Manish We met for our second General Meeting (the name capturing the temporal proximity to the IEEE PES[...]
unifi Annual Meeting (January 2023)
by: Sairaj unifi team members gathered at the Georgia Tech campus January 24-25 to discuss plans for the coming year,[...]
Blogs
2023-2024 UNIFI Annual Newsletter Released
This newsletter recaps key accomplishments in 2023, the second year of the UNIFI consortium operation. Reading on, you will learn all about our recent push towards long-term organizational sustainability, our contributions to modeling and simulation, our effort in driving consensus on specifications, the unique 1 MW multi-vendor demonstration at the[...]
unifi At The GE Electrification Symposium (2022)
The '22 GE electrification symposium (October 3, 2022) featured talks in two themes: aviation and power grids Organized at the GE Research campus in Niskayuna, NY, the event brought together leading researchers from academia and industry. Attendees were greeted by crisp fall weather, magnificent fall colors, and got a glimpse[...]
Technical Papers Presented at the 58th Annual Allerton Conference
unifi researchers presented 2 technical papers at the 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton'2022). Alejandro Domínguez-García served as co-chair of the conference this year. The conference is organized by the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Allerton Park & Retreat Center, a sprawling estate[...]
unifi Technical Papers Presented at irep ’22
unifi researchers presented 6 technical papers in the 11th bulk power systems dynamics and control symposium (irep'2022) in Banff and shared their research efforts on grid-forming inverters. This is a single technical-track series first established by Les Fink in 1988 and is managed since 1994 by the international institute of research and education in[...]
