<span class="vcard">David Breecker</span>

MSL Teams for 3 Grid Modernization Projects

MSL organized and is part of three teams that have received awards from the Grid Modernization Grant Program of the New Mexico state Energy Office. The MSL projects reflect the three types supported by the program: Type 1: Research Type 2: Planning Type 3: Construction The three projects are, respectively, Advanced Storage Architectures (research); the […]

MSL Joins Global FEW Alliance

MSL has joined and will be working to support the Global Food-Energy-Water Alliance. The FEW Alliance is an international coalition focused on place-based knowledge and contextual engineering to foster climate change adaptation solutions. MSL and its Energy Sovereignty Institute will work with the Alliance, its North American Hub, and the newly established Contextual Engineering Research […]

MSL & Santa Fe Institute Collaborate on “Complex Adaptive Grid” Working Group

MSL’s Complex Adaptive Grid initiative took an important step forward with the second meeting of the Santa Fe Institute’s power grid Working Group in March, 2026, advancing our alignment (and collaboration) on the conceptual framework. In addition to preparing an article for publication, we plan to continue the Working Group’s efforts to develop a research […]

Update: Long Duration Energy Storage Demonstration

Update as of May, 2026: The GridFlow LDES project described below has pivoted to an alternative flow battery chemistry: Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) are aqueous flow batteries where energy is stored in vanadium electrolytes in different oxidation states, physically separated from the cell stack that converts chemical energy to electricity. Their key value proposition […]

MSL teams for Advanced Storage Architectures

MSL and researchers from the University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories are collaborating on the development of a research project in Advanced Storage Architectures (ASA). This conceptual framework, developed by MSL, takes a holistic, systems innovation approach to optimizing the economic and operational deployment of energy storage throughout the grid.

MSL Teams for Project HOW: Community Resilience Hubs

MSL is collaborating with New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) for Project HOW, fostering clean and resilient energy deployments throughout IPL’s community. IPL works within a nationwide movement of communities of faith to respond to the existential crisis of climate change, which requires profound inner transformation and collective action. In response to the climate […]

MSL Joins Santa Fe Institute Working Group

MSL President David Breecker joined an invitational working group at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI, a global leader in complexity science) on “Governance Institutions for a Polycentric and Technologically Complex Electric Power Grid” in April, 2025. This was an invaluable opportunity to further deepen and develop MSL’s Complex Adaptive Grid initiative with a cohort of […]

MSL Leads Africa Energy Workshop

MSL designed and led the inaugural Atlas AI and e-GUIDE Innovation Network (EGIN) stakeholder workshop in Nairobi, Kenya on December 5 and 6, 2024. This event built on the success of the 2022 Global Energy Access Innovation Workshop in Rwanda, also designed and led by MSL, which led to the concept and formation of EGIN. […]

MSL IEEE Presentation: The Complex Adaptive Grid

MSL President David Breecker had the honor of presenting MSL’s “Complex Adaptive Grid” initiative to the IEEE eGrid 2024 Workshop in Santa Fe, NM on November 19. The presentation was very well received by the approximately 100 participants, primarily comprised of engineers working in the power electronics area, and including several influential leaders in the […]

“Speaking of Solar”: Energy Access Video for the Navajo Nation

We’re very pleased to announce the release of a video produced by MSL’s Energy Sovereignty Institute, in collaboration with Rochester Institute of Technology, Navajo Technical University, and the Navajo Tribal Utilities Authority with support from Sandia National Laboratories. The video translates fundamental concepts of solar home systems into the Navajo language.

Energy Sovereignty Research Paper Published

We are pleased to announce that the report on the results of MSL’s March 2024 Energy Sovereignty Research Workshop is now available. The White Paper, titled Convergent Clean Energy Research in Support of Sovereign and Prosperous Tribal Nations, presents the outcomes of the two-day workshop held on March 12-13, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort on […]

MSL to Present at IEEE Workshop

We are very pleased to report that MSL President David Breecker has been invited to present and join a panel discussion on the “Power Plant of the Future” at the IEEE eGRID 2024 Workshop to be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from November 19-21, 2024.

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