Publications

I am grateful for all of the collaborations that have made my work possible.

My publications are also available on my Google Scholar.

Journal papers

• 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

• 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 Final Report.", Sandia National Laboratories, Jan. 2022.