EnerNex Corporation, an electric power engineering and consulting firm specializing in the development and application of new electric power technologies, today announced it has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research Phase II grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop Distribution State Estimation. This includes EnerNex partners North Carolina State University (NCSU) and OSIsoft.

EnerNex will work with SPEC Professor Mesut Baran, to produce better methods of load modeling from statistical data, with branch current state estimation and bad data identification. Using the load estimation toolbox, industry researchers can develop new modules as add-ons to the industry-leading data historian software, the OSIsoft PI System, for electric utilities.