The Advanced Grid Institute

The special topic of Advanced Grid Institute (AGI) Day 2025 was “Wildfire Challenges and Mitigation Strategies.” The panel was hosted by Larry Bekkedahl, Senior VP of Advanced Energy Delivery at Portland General Electric; Andre Coleman, data scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL); Kelly Miller, Wildfire Mitigation Program Manager at the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); […]

Registration is now available for AGI Day 2025: Building and Operating an Affordable, Reliable, and Secure Regional Grid!

On November 7, 2024, AGI hosted a half-day workshop at Washington State University (WSU) to convene experts from diverse fields—power systems, machine learning, advanced analytics, applied mathematics, risk modeling, and economics. The goal was to identify critical research gaps in grid science that could be addressed through interdisciplinary collaboration, especially at the intersection of power systems and AI/ML.

AGI would like to introduce four new IAB members that will help advise and lead the institute into the future; Mark Lauby, William Rambo, Avnaesh Jayantilal, and Mike Diedesch.

The future of the electric grid relies on the passion of researchers, educators, industry, and students as the next-generation workforce to address complex problems like decarbonization, security, resilience, and flexibility.

Over the course of the Spring 2024 academic semester, AGI brought in speakers as a part of the AGI seminar series. The goal of the seminars was to bring in industry experts to highlight the important  research and field work that is being done in the region in the energy sector.