Sandia engineer Cody Noland outlines open‑source Quest tools for coordinated grid planning, flags large‑load modeling gaps
Cody Noland of Sandia National Laboratories described the open‑source Quest platform—capacity expansion 'Quest Planning', probabilistic 'Progress' and a production cost model—and said preliminary case studies show that large‑load flexibility and commissioning timing materially change storage and generation investment choices. He noted pilots with utility PNM and ongoing work to add stochastic large‑load behavior and AI workflow agents.
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Cody Noland, an electrical engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, presented the Quest open‑source platform and its three core grid‑planning tools, saying Quest has been under development "for about 7 or 8 years now" and is intended to connect capacity expansion, probabilistic adequacy and high‑fidelity production‑cost analyses.
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