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Apr 02 2026 by David Breecker

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

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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 agenda, and in several other key areas. The following is taken from the SFI news post on the March workshop: (more…)


Dec 09 2025 by David Breecker

Long Duration Energy Storage Demonstration

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MSL organized and is coordinating a Long Duration Energy Storage Research and Demonstration Pilot Project focused on innovations in flow battery technology. The project team unites GridFlow (a startup commercializing a novel technology spun out of Sandia National Laboratories), Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC, the utility serving the demonstration site in El Rito, NM), and MSL. The project has been awarded approximately $1 million from an energy storage grant program. (more…)


Oct 31 2025 by David Breecker

MSL teams for Advanced Storage Architectures

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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. (more…)


Jun 05 2025 by David Breecker

MSL Teams for Project HOW: Community Resilience Hubs

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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 challenge, Project HOW focuses on decarbonization and community resilience in congregations throughout New Mexico. (more…)


Apr 21 2025 by David Breecker

MSL Joins Santa Fe Institute Working Group

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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 12 national cross-disciplinary experts, which expects to continue meeting to develop a research agenda and activities in the governance domain. (more…)


Dec 16 2024 by David Breecker

MSL Leads Africa Energy Workshop

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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. The Kenya workshop was highly successful in achieving its objectives, engaging a cross-sector group of energy leaders in East Africa, planning the next stage of e-GUIDE’s work, and accelerating innovation processes and capacity. (more…)


Nov 25 2024 3Commentsby David Breecker

MSL IEEE Presentation: The Complex Adaptive Grid

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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 grid modernization field. The presentation, which sparked considerable discussion, was part of a panel on “The Power Plant of the Future.” (more…)


Nov 22 2024 by David Breecker

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

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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. (more…)


Sep 04 2024 by David Breecker

Energy Sovereignty Research Paper Published

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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 the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico. (more…)


Aug 13 2024 by David Breecker

MSL to Present at IEEE Workshop

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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. (more…)