2325-5987/15©2015IEEE IEEE Electrification Magazine / MARCH 2015 79 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 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MELE.2014.2381605 Date of publication: 27 February 2015 T 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 IMAGE COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/SHUBERT CIENCIA