{"id":850525,"date":"2026-09-17T03:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850525\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:42:14","slug":"pnnl-energy-grid-tool-goes-to-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/850525\/","title":{"rendered":"PNNL energy grid tool goes to market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">A tool\u00a0developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory\u00a0aimed at helping utilities evaluate and\u00a0identify\u00a0problems with power plants as they respond to power grid disturbances\u00a0is going commercial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">Virginia-based software company Simple Thread has licensed the technology, built on PNNL\u2019s Generator Scorecard, and will market it as Aion\u00a0Pulse, according to a release.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">The technology uses data from time-synchronized measurements of grid conditions dozens of times per second. It automatically detects disturbances in the\u00a0data and generates performance assessments for each power plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">Historically, engineers analyzed those events manually, reviewing large volumes of measurement data one generator at a time,\u00a0a\u00a0time-consuming and\u00a0difficult process\u00a0to scale as power systems become more complex.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"EN-US\" style=\" user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-align: left;\">\u201cThrough our collaboration with PNNL, we\u2019ve created something rare\u00a0\u2013\u00a0a tool engineered by people who deeply understand both the physics of the grid and the modern software required to support it,\u201d said\u00a0Simple Thread\u2019s CEO and founder, Justin Etheredge, in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tool\u00a0developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory\u00a0aimed at helping utilities evaluate and\u00a0identify\u00a0problems with power plants as they respond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[28,112,198252],"class_list":["post-850525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets","tag-september-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}