Located on the campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, the 18,500-square-foot Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) is the nation's first facility to help public and private sector researchers scale up promising clean energy technologies – from solar modules and wind turbines to electric vehicles and efficient, interactive home appliances – and test how they interact with each other and with the electricity grid at the utility scale.

ESIF will house more than 15 experimental laboratories and several outdoor test beds, including an interactive hardware-in-the-loop system that will allow researchers and manufacturers to test their products at full power and real grid load levels. The facility will also feature a petascale supercomputer that can support large-scale modeling and simulation at a trillion operations per second.

The Energy Systems Integration Facility is focused on overcoming generation, transmission, distribution and end-use challenges to support a cleaner, affordable and more secure U.S. energy mix, including research into next-generation building technologies, microgrids, energy storage batteries and sustainable renewables . energy. As the cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline, seamless and efficient grid integration will help make these resources and products even more affordable while giving Americans more control over the way they use energy in their homes and businesses.

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