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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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Energy Sovereignty Workshop a Great Success

On March 12th and 13th, 2024 MSL and its partners at Navajo Technical University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Seattle University convened key stakeholders for an inaugural Energy Sovereignty Research Workshop. Funded by the National Science Foundation (with additional support from the New America Foundation and Remy’s Good Day Fund), 32 participants representing academia, Tribal […]

MSL teams for Energy Sovereignty Research

The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to MSL, Navajo Technical University, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Seattle University for an energy sovereignty research workshop. This project will convene a diverse group of stakeholders from academia, Tribal governments and agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers, and energy sector organizations for a two-day event, designed […]

MSL Launches “New Grid Paradigms” Initiative

In response to the urgent need for accelerated progress in grid modernization, MSL has launched a collaborative systems innovation approach under the rubric of “New Grid Paradigms” (NGP). The initiative seeks to catalyze a field of trans-disciplinary research, devoted to exploring and developing a fully integrated paradigm through a complex adaptive systems lens. This paradigm […]

MSL Leads Advanced Grid Tech Seminar with NMSU

On May 19, 2023 MSL organized and led a seminar on advanced grid modernization technologies as part of a grant awarded to New Mexico State University by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program. MSL and The National Renewable Energy Laboratory are collaborators on the grant. Seminar presenters included […]

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