NLR's Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) is a collaborative research hub for future-ready, secure, reliable, and affordable energy technologies.
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2024 ESIF Stewardship Summary
In 2024, ESIF hosted 170 multidisciplinary projects with 85 partners. Our research advanced leading-edge technologies such as self-healing grids, electrolyzers, grid-forming inverters, and a control architecture that heralds a new direction for distributed energy management systems. We also opened the Energy Security and Resilience Laboratory and brought a third-generation supercomputer online. Read more in our summary.
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This video was produced when the laboratory operated as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The laboratory is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). Text version
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Last Updated May 4, 2026