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As the the year comes to a close, we’re reflecting on an incredible year of progress at encoord. 2024 has been more than just advancing SAInt, it’s been about fostering collaboration, sharing knowledge, and empowering the energy planning community to take on the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Discover the SAInt 3.6 Community – your hub for energy planning collaboration. With public documentation, a user forum, and new instructional videos, SAInt 3.6 is designed to empower professionals to drive the future of energy planning.

We are excited to announce the release of SAInt version 3.5, packed with significant enhancements and new features designed to improve the efficiency and capabilities of your energy network modeling and planning.

In the beginning of 2024, encoord reached out to 40 power system researchers, consultants, and planners to survey today and tomorrow’s dynamic stability assessment needs. Ensuring grid stability is becoming more complex as power grids evolve and inverter-based resources introduce faster control dynamics. Over the past six months, encoord (supported by the NSF SBIR program) has led R&D efforts to develop a hybrid phasor/EMT dynamic stability assessment tool. This tool combines high-fidelity electromagnetic transient simulations with traditional methods to address modern grid challenges.

SAInt 3.4 empowers organizations to comprehensively analyze and model the complexities of renewable and distributed energy resources and revolutionizes visualization capabilities through GIS functionalities. This provides an invaluable edge in organizations navigating the dynamic energy landscape and optimizing operational efficiency.

As we bid farewell to 2023, see the moments that defined encoord's year and look at the impact encoord has made as a company through thought leadership, advancements in our software SAInt, and our work with customers and partners.

encoord, through the lead of Power Systems Simulation Lead Dr. Wallace Kenyon, was selected in August of 2023 to receive Phase I of the America’s Seed Fund award created through the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

This award provides funding to encoord, which will be used to develop and commercialize a new hybrid simulation tool. The tool will be designed to help power system operators worldwide assess their systems' stability, better integrate renewable energy sources, and ensure a reliable and secure electricity supply.

As part of encoord’s mission to enable the energy transition, the company recently collaborated with the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) College of Engineering and Applied Science to facilitate the use of its modeling software SAInt for a graduate course titled Power System Planning and Operations.

"With the addition of the thermal network model, SAInt has become the first commercial software application that enables the modeling and planning of electricity, gas, and thermal networks in a single integrated platform using a common architecture and workflow. Network planners can now seamlessly plan across these critical infrastructures without the need of using three separate tools that were not designed to interact with one another. This will increase the efficiency of modeling processes, enhance the communication between different planning teams and improve the overall accuracy of simulation results."

-encoord CTO Kwabena Pambour

Hydrogen is the primary energy source for sending rockets into space and powering the International Space Station. On earth, it’s being heralded by some as a key piece to the problem of decarbonizing the energy sector. Can hydrogen follow the path of other space-age energy technologies developed by NASA – such as solar photovoltaics and LED lighting – and make the leap from the final frontier back to the modern car, home, or electric utility?

encoord will be releasing more content over the course of the year. Check back in to read more!