Publications
I am grateful for all of the collaborations that have made my work possible.
My publications are also available on my Google Scholar.
Preprints
A. O. Aquino, S. Talkington, and D. K. Molzahn, "Manging Vehicle Charging During Emergencies via Conservative Distribution Sytsem Modeling", to appear in the 2024 Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC).
Journal articles
S. Talkington, S. Grijalva, M. J. Reno, J. A. Azzolini, and J. Peppanen, "Localized structure in secondary distribution system voltage sensitivity matrices", to appear in Electric Power Systems Research, 2023.
S. Talkington, S. Grijalva, M. J. Reno, J. A. Azzolini, and D. Pinney, "A Measurement-Based Approach to Voltage-Constrained Hosting Capacity Analysis With Controllable Reactive Power Behind-the-Meter", to appear in Electric Power Systems Research, 2023.
S. Talkington, D. Turizo, S. Grijalva, J. Fernandez, and D. K. Molzahn, "Conditions for Estimation of Sensitivities of Voltage Magnitudes to Complex Power Injections", to appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 2023.
S. Talkington, S. Grijalva, M. J. Reno, and J. Azzolini, "Solar PV Inverter Reactive Power Disaggregation and Control Setting Estimation", IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Apr. 2022.
S. Talkington, S. Grijalva, and M. J. Reno, "Power Factor Estimation of Distributed Energy Resources Using Voltage Magnitude Measurements", Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 859–869, July 2021.
Conference proceedings
S. Talkington and S. Grijalva, "Phase Retrieval via Model-Free Power Flow Jacobian Recovery", to appear in the 14th ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy '23).
J. A. Azzolini, M. J. Reno, J. Yusuf, S. Talkington, and S. Grijalva, "Calculating PV Hosting Capacity in Low-Voltage Secondary Networks Using Only Smart Meter Data", to appear in the 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference North America (ISGT NA).
J. Azzolini, S. Talkington, M. J. Reno, S. Grijalva, L. Blakely, D. Pinney, and S. McHann "Improving Behind-the-Meter PV Impact Studies with Data-Driven Modeling and Analysis", presented in the 2022 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), Jun. 2022.
(Paper selected for oral presentation)
S. Talkington, S. Grijalva, and M. J. Reno "Sparse Time Series Sampling for Recovery of Behind-the-Meter Inverter Control Models", presented in the 2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference North America (ISGT NA), Feb. 2022.
S. Talkington, S. Grijalva, M. J. Reno, and J. Azzolini "Recovering Power Factor Control Settings of Solar PV Inverters from Net Load Data", in the 53rd North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Nov. 2021.
S. Talkington and S. Grijalva, "Rail Transit Regenerative Braking Energy Recovery Optimization to Provide Grid Services", in the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI), Apr. 2021.
(Best Paper Award)
Technical Reports
M. J. Reno et al., "IMoFi - Intelligent Model Fidelity: Physics-Based Data-Driven Grid Modeling to Accelerate Accurate PV Integration Updated Accomplishments.", Sandia National Laboratories, Sep. 2022.
M. J. Reno et al., "IMoFi - Intelligent Model Fidelity: Physics-Based Data-Driven Grid Modeling to Accelerate Accurate PV Integration Final Report.", Sandia National Laboratories, Jan. 2022.