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HE CURRENT STATUS OF INTERNA-
tional microgrid research, develop-
ment, and demonstration (RD&D) was
on display and open for review and
debate in Tianjin, China, 13–14
November 2014 at the Tianjin 2014 Symposium on
Microgrids. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Ener-
gy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
(U.S. DOE-OE) and the Energy Foundation, organized by
Tianjin University, Hefei University of Technology, and
supported by other generous sponsors, the tenth in
the influential series of microgrid symposiums was
held at the Geneva Grand Hotel. Broad international
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Date of publication: 27 February 2015
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A meeting of
the minds for
international
microgrid experts.
By Chris Marnay, Benjamin Kroposki,
Meiqin Mao, Honghua Xu, Alex Chong,
Se-Kyo Chung, Ryoichi Hara, Toshifumi Ise,
Reza Iravani, Farid Katiraei, Mihaela Albu,
Nikos Hatziargyriou, Toshihisa Funabashi,
Jim Reilly, Johan Driesen, Guillermo Jimenez,
and Xavier Vallve
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