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Enabling Smart Grid
Cosimulation Studies
By Timothy M. Hansen, Rahul Kadavil, Bryan Palmintier,
Siddharth Suryanarayanan, Anthony A. Maciejewski,
Howard Jay Siegel, Edwin K.P. Chong, and Elaine Hale

Rapid design and development of the technologies and controls.
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HE 21ST CENTURY ELECTRIC POWER GRID
is transforming with an unprecedented
increase in demand and increase in new
technologies. In the United States Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007,
Title XIII sets the tenets for modernizing the electricity grid
through what is known as the "Smart Grid Initiative." This
initiative calls for increased design, deployment, and integration of distributed energy resources, smart technologies

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and appliances, and advanced storage devices. The deployment of these new technologies requires rethinking and
re-engineering the traditional boundaries between different electric power system domains (Figure 1).
Historically, the analysis and operation of electric power systems has used isolated subdomain tools for the transmission
grid and wholesale markets, the distribution grid, and end users.
Each tool models one subdomain well, but makes engineered
simplifications of the other subdomains with which it interacts.
As more smart grid technologies [e.g., distributed photovoltaics
(PVs), electric vehicles, and solid-state transformers] are integrated into distribution grids, static distribution simulations and
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