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DEPRECATED AI-Batt-OS (Autonomous Identification of Battery Life Models - Open Source) [SWR 21-17]

DEPRECATED. This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 30, 2026. It is now read-only. Open source implementation of some of the methods utilized by AI-Batt, a battery lifetime modeling and analysis toolkit provided by the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). This software demonstrates the use of bi-level optimization and symbolic regression techniques to semi-autonomously identify algebraic models predicting the capacity fade of lithium-ion batteries during calendar aging. Modeling the degradation of batteries is a complex task, due to the difficulty in separating the time-dependent and time-independent factors impacting cell level degradation, across multiple data series with different numbers of measurements and/or data quality. Bi-level optimization enables model parameters to be optimized to either the entire data set or to individual data series, allowing statistical disambiguation of global behaviors (data series independent) and local behaviors (data series dependent). Symbolic regression is used to automatically search for optimal low-dimesional models predicting the variation of locally optimized parameters versus time-independent experimental variables from millions of possible models, resulting in a more accurate and repeatable model identification process than is possible by a manual search. The provided tools also implement cross-validation and bootstrap resampling schemes, empowering statistical model comparison/selection and quantification of model uncertainties. An example script replicates the results from the manuscript "Challenging Practices of Algebraic Battery Life Models through Statistical Validation and Model Identification via Machine-Learning", submitted to ECS. All code is written in MATLAB. Requires the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox. Contact Dr. Paul Gasper at Paul.Gasper@nlr.gov for any questions.

Gasper, Paul↗

Hydrogenerate: Open Source Python Tool To Estimate Hydropower Generation Time-series

Hydropower is one of the most mature forms of renewable energy generation. The United States (US) has almost 103 GW of installed, with 80 GW of conventional generation and 23 GW of pumped hydropower [1]. Moreover, the potential for future development on Non-Powered Dams is up to 10 GW. With the US setting its goals to become carbon neutral [2], more renewable energy in the form of hydropower needs to be integrated with the grid. Currently, there are no publicly available tool that can estimate the hydropower potential for existing hydropower dams or other non-powered dams. The HydroGenerate is an open-source python library that has the capability of estimating hydropower generation based on flow rate either provided by the user or received from United States Geological Survey (USGS) water data services. The tool calculates the efficiency as a function of flow based on the turbine type either selected by the user or estimated based on the “head” provided by the user.

Mitra, Bhaskar↗

geothermal_osr (Energy Predictor for Geothermal Open Source Reservoir) [SWR-22-23]

This is a repository with the tools developed for predicting energy produced at Open-Source Reservoir (OSR). It includes both simulation data for OSR, as well as Jupyter notebooks for training and evaluating prediction models. OSR was constructed based on the data from Brady Hot Springs reservoir (Nevada, USA) but has a number of sufficiently modified characteristics and does not disclose any sensitive data.

Duplyakin, Dmitry↗

Contributing to Sunny open source code

The Sunny package is an existing open source software to support the simulation of magnetic spin systems. It is available online under the MIT license here: https://github.com/SunnySuite/Sunny.jl The package aims to include the following features: - Analysis for symmetry-allowed interactions - Monte Carlo algorithms for simulating equilibrium configurations. - Schemes for integrating spin dynamics. - Inference of model Hamiltonians - Support for generalized SU(N) spins - Tools for interpreting experimental data, such as diffraction data, magnetization curves, and heat capacity data

Barros, Kipton↗

PRESSURE-FILM OPEN SOURCE SCANNING AND MAPPING

SF-22-099 Pressure-film Open Source Scanning and Mapping (POSSM) is software that analyses images of pressure-film (scans or photographs). POSSM collects data from that analysis in order to produce a number of visual aides, including pressure maps, histograms, and 3d surface plots. POSSM is designed to be able to analyze an entire folder full of images, exporting numeric data as .csv files and visual graphics as .png files.

Grider, Patrick↗

DSS-SimPy-RL (Open-DSS and SimPy based Cyber-Physical RL environment) [SWR-23-29]

Recently, numerous data-driven approaches to control an electric grid using machine learning techniques have been investigated. With the advancement of reinforcement learning (RL) based techniques, gradually the conventional optimization based solvers are being replaced with RL approach where there is uncertainty in the environment such as renewable generation or cyber system emulation. However, to train an agent efficiently, it requires numerous interactions with an environment to learn the best policies. There are numerous RL environments for the power systems based on some well-known simulators, similarly there are environment for communication domains. While majority of the cyber emulators are based in an UNIX environment, the power simulators are based in the Windows-based operating system, the generation of cyber-physical mixed domain RL environment has been challenging. Existing co-simulation methods are efficient but resource and time intensive to generate large scale data set for training RL agents. Hence, this software focuses on development and validation of a mixed domain RL environment using Open DSS for the physical side and leverages a discrete event simulator python package, SimPy, for cyber-side emulation which is Operating Systems agnostic. Further utilizing this software co-simulation and training RL agents for re-routing based resilient control for network reconfiguration and volt-var control in power distribution feeder are performed.

Sahu, Abhijeet↗

Open Source High Fidelity Modeling Of A Type-5 Wind Turbine Drivetrain

The purpose of this code is to provide a high-fidelity model of Type-5 wind turbine drivetrain for grid integration and transient stability studies. The increasing integration of renewable energy resources in evolving bulk power system (BPS) is impacting the system’s inertia. Type-5 wind turbine generation has the potential to behave like a traditional synchronous generator and can help mitigate the aforementioned impact. A hydraulic torque converter (TC) and gearbox with torque limiting feature are integral parts of a Type-5 wind turbine unit. A generic and high-fidelity model of a Type-5 wind turbine drivetrain is not openly and widely available for grid integration and transient stability studies. This hinders appropriate assessment of Type-5 wind power plant's contribution to the BPS resilience. This work develops and validates a TC model based on those generally used in automobile's transmission system.

Hussain, Tanveer↗

Inl Open Ondemand Applications

Open OnDemand is a software tool that is used to access HPC resources. It provides a framework for organizations to create apps and other additional functionality that may be useful to the organization. This code expands upon the pre-existing INL applications, including the NEAMS Workbench application, MOOSE Herd applications, and others. These changes significantly expand upon the functionality originally provided. Due to the extensive functionality that we added, these changes would not be added to the original application but would function as a standalone application that other organizations would be able to utilize on their own systems.

Biggs, BrandonS.↗

LANL contribution to ryujin, an open source finite element solver

Ryujin (https://github.com/conservation-laws/ryujin) is a high-performance finite-element software for solving mathematical partial differential equations (PDEs) with dominant hyperbolic structures. The author of this request, Eric Tovar, is using Ryujin as a high-performance tool for his Mark Kac postdoctoral fellowship research at LANL. Eric would like to contribute openly to the ryujin software without changing its core functionality. This includes: (i) bug fixes; (ii) re-organization of code for performance and syntactic updates including documentation; (iii) implementation of new PDE numerical methods that align with the core solver; (iv) implementation of new initial state configurations for target applications.

Tovar, Eric↗

T3CO (Transportation Technology Total Cost of Ownership) Open Source [SWR-21-54]

T3CO (Transportation Technology Total Cost of Ownership), is open source software for modeling total cost of ownership for commercial vehicles with advanced powertrains. T3CO is a modeling framework for determining geospatially and temporally optimized total cost of ownership (TCO) for vehicle powertrain technologies. T3CO runs NREL's FASTSim™ software for a representative set of operating conditions to minimize TCO based on vehicle parameters that affect purchase and operating costs (e.g., fuel/electricity consumption, asset depreciation, opportunity costs associated with charging time) while simultaneously ensuring that firm performance constraints (e.g. zero-to-sixty time, gradeability) are satisfied. T3CO will enable the user to control which powertrain parameters are used in optimizing TCO, and these parameters will be modified by a multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithm to identify a Pareto-optimal solution set. The optimization algorithm will be modular so that users can choose from many different MOO options or insert their own user-defined optimization tool. NREL T3CO Homepage: https://www.nrel.gov/transportation/t3co.html PyPI package: https://pypi.org/project/t3co/

Lustbader, Jason↗

Contribution to Open Molecules Dataset (coordcomplexsampling)

The Open Molecules Dataset is a project led by external collaborators, focused on the production of a wide diversity of molecular chemistries. This project will include high-throughput electronic structure calculations on metal coordination complexes, biomolecules, and electrolytes. Solvation effects, conformers, chemical reactivity, and spin/charge sampling will be pursued for elements on the periodic table up to, but not including the actinides. We aim to contribute code related to sampling for transition metal complexes, in particular, and expand software capabilities related to other thrusts desired.

Taylor, Michael G. [Los Alamos National Laboratory↗

Implementation of ISO 15118-202 messages within Everest EV Charging Open Source Framework [SWR-25-56]

This software implements the messages defined in the ISO 15118-202 standard within the Everest EV Charging open source framework. The protocol and messages defined in the ISO 15118-202 standard enable the exchange of additional information which is not available for exchange within the currently deployed EV/EVSE communications protocols. This information includes co-identification parameters, error message exchange and more. This fork of the everest-core repository adds a prototype of the Extensible Supply Equipment Communication Controller (SECC) Discovery Protocol (ESDP) implemented based on a draft of the ISO 15118-202 standard. This is achieved through additions and modifications to the EvseV2G module. The implementation provides a demonstration of the ESDP messages, encoding and decoding but does not include a full integration within the Everest framework. Much of the information being sent over ESDP in this implementation is set statically for the sake of demonstrating the protocol itself. This fork of the ext-switchev-iso15118 repository adds a prototype of the Extensible Supply Equipment Communication Controller (SECC) Discovery Protocol (ESDP) implemented based on a draft of the ISO 15118-202 standard. The implementation provides a demonstration of the ESDP messages, encoding and decoding but does not include a full integration within the Everest framework. Much of the information being sent over ESDP in this implementation is set statically for the sake of demonstrating the protocol itself. This fork adds the ESDP features for only the EVCC controller because that is the only portion that is utilized in the everest Software-in-the-Loop.

Watt, Ed [National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NR↗

WHOC (Wind Hybrid Open Controller) [SWR-25-54]

The Wind Hybrid Open Controller (WHOC) is a python-based tool for real-time plant-level wind farm control and wind-based hybrid plant control. WHOC is primarily run in simulation, although we intend that it could be used for physical plants in future. WHOC provides simple farm-level (and hybrid plant-level) controls such as wake steering control, spatial filtering/consensus, active power control, and coordinated control of hybrid power plant assets; and creates an entry point for the development of more advanced controllers.

Sinner, Michael (Misha) [National Renewable Energy↗

OPET Control (Open PV Electrical Tool Control Software) [SWR-25-44]

Software interface for controlling and collecting data from the Open PV Electrical Tool (OPET) device. This repository contains everything relating to the control of the OPET device including source code. If you are looking for the hardware or firmware software repositories, links are below: https://github.com/NREL/opet-hardware https://github.com/NREL/opet-firmware

McDanold, Byron [National Renewable Energy Laborat↗

Open-Datasets for WEC Simulation

SAND2025-11468O The Open-Datasets for WEC Simulation is a tool that uses datasets and simulation configuration files to conduct OpenFOAM wave energy converter (WEC) simulations. Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.

Chartrand, Chris [Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), L↗

Inl Open Ondemand Dashboard Applications

Open OnDemand is a software tool that is used to access HPC resources. It provides a framework for organizations to create apps and other additional functionality that may be useful to the organization. This code creates new INL applications. These changes significantly expand upon the functionality originally provided. Due to the extensive functionality that we added, these changes would not be added to the original application but would function as additional applications that other organizations would be able to utilize on their own systems.

Biggs, Brandon [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), I↗

An Open-source Llm Enhanced-tool Specialized In Helping Moose Related Problems And Tasks

MOOSEenger is an open-source, terminal-first chat application for the MOOSE ecosystem that couples specialized parsing of MOOSE documentation and “.i” input files with retrieval-augmented generation to deliver grounded answers about multiphysics modeling and workflows. It includes dedicated readers for MOOSE-style HTML and a pyhit-based parser that uses the MOOSE syntax tree to preserve block structure and attach retrieval metadata. A data-ingestion pipeline performs semantic chunking into atomic facts and stores them hierarchically in a local Chroma vector database that maintains parent–child relationships across documents; the system can ingest directories, individual files, and single-page web content, and it provides CRUD operations (insert, update, delete) to manage the corpus. At query time, relevant chunks are embedded, retrieved, and fused into the model context, with interactive features such as token streaming, persistent chat history, and dynamic RAG (retrieval triggered by user input or intermediate model output). Deployment is flexible: MOOSEenger runs with local Ollama models or remote Hugging Face/OpenAI backends—typically coordinating generation, lightweight tagging/summarization, and embeddings across three models—and it also supports a server mode and integration with the VS Code Continue interface.

Li, Mengnan [Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idah↗