Accelerate Grid Modernization

Accelerate grid modernization

Enabling the Energy Transition

Aging infrastructure, rapidly increasing energy demand, and rising environmental impacts have exposed the urgent need to transform the grid and energy industry. Modernizing the grid requires a tightly integrated ecosystem of technologies that span physical infrastructure, digital intelligence, and secure communications. Keysight empowers the energy transition  with smart, scalable, and standards-driven test solutions for grid operators, device manufacturers, and test labs accelerating the move towards sustainable energy.

Why is Grid Modernization Important?


Electricity demand is projected to double by 2050 while aging infrastructure struggles with reliability and integration challenges. Utilities, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and energy innovators are under increasing pressure to:

  • Meet the surging electricity demand caused by artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles (EVs), and cryptocurrency mining
  • Integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar, battery storage, and EVs into the grid
  • Comply with evolving grid standards including IEEE 1547.1, UL 1741 SB, and ISO 15118
  • Ensure grid stability, safety, and resilience in real time

Keysight enables faster, safer, and more cost-effective grid modernization through automated, standards-compliant testing and emulation.

Grid Modernization at a Glance

 

Modern grid infrastructure operates as a complex, interconnected ecosystem that spans energy generation, transmission systems, communications networks, DERs, and cybersecurity. This comprehensive architecture integrates traditional power plant operations with smart inverters, energy storage systems, EV charging infrastructure, and advanced management platforms.

 

Testing and validation across every component and system are critical to ensure they are interoperable, secure, and perform reliably from design through deployment.

Power up Your Skills

Explore Keysight's library of grid and energy bootcamps to learn new skills and testing approaches that you can apply in the lab today.

Grid & EV Charging Infrastructure

Advance your understanding of grid implementation challenges, technical standards, and strategies for implementing vehicle-to-grid (V2G).

Battery Design for Electric Vehicles

Explore battery fundamentals, advanced testing methodologies, and emerging technologies for designing, testing, and optimizing EV batteries.

Power Electronics Design

Get started with ADS for designing Power Electronics and learn how to power converters and inverters in this introductory bootcamp.

DC and AC Power Fundamentals

Explore core concepts and foundational power principles from voltage and current to AC waveforms and power transmission in this skill-building deep dive.

Design for Power Integrity

Build a foundation in Power Delivery Network design with impedance methods, VRM modeling, component characterization, and stability techniques in Keysight ADS.

Discover Solutions to Accelerate Grid Modernization

Grid modernization solutions

Communications

Network modeling

Keysight's network modeling solutions enable real-time co-simulation of power systems and communications networks, helping utilities validate DER integration, protection schemes, and control system interoperability under realistic conditions. It supports standards compliance and strengthens grid resilience by enabling safe, repeatable testing of cyber-physical scenarios in a virtual environment.

DER & Smart Inverters

Anti-islanding conformance

Keysight’s SL1221A Anti-Islanding Conformance Test Automation Software streamlines testing and validation of inverter anti-islanding functionality using power hardware-in-the-loop (PHIL) simulation. By simulating realistic grid events and enabling precise control of test conditions, the software reduces the time and complexity of compliance testing.

Energy Storage

Battery test

The Keysight SL1133A Scienlab Combined Battery Test Solution enables precise characterization of battery cells for energy storage systems, utilizing a bi-directional regenerative power supply for high-accuracy charge/discharge cycling and optional electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).

Solar Power

Photovoltaic array simulator

The Keysight PV8900 Photovoltaic Array Simulator is a programmable DC power source that simulates the electrical characteristics of a solar array, enabling engineers to comprehensively test and optimize solar inverters for various environmental conditions, high voltage, and power levels.

Cybersecurity

Threat simulator

Keysight's Threat Simulator enables grid operators to strengthen network security by emulating real-world traffic and cyber threats across hybrid and cloud environments, enabling safe, scalable testing of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and zero-trust architectures.
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Looking for Grid Modernization Solutions?

The energy landscape is evolving rapidly, driven by surging power demand, the need to upgrade grid infrastructure, integration of distributed energy resources (DER), and compliance requirements with diverse regional and international standards. Grid simulation and grid emulation are critical for ensuring interoperability, safety, and resilience from design to deployment. Keysight accelerates grid modernization from concept to connection by providing integrated, standards-compliant grid simulation and emulation test solutions. These tools enable utilities, OEMs, and energy stakeholders to modernize the grid without compromise. Download the grid modernization solutions catalog today.

Modernize Your Grid Cybersecurity

Grid cybersecurity is more crucial than ever with increasing interconnectivity.  While firewalls, access controls, and perimeter defenses remain critical, attackers have proven time and again that if they can’t break through the walls, they’ll find a way to walk through the door. Once inside, they move quietly, blending into normal network traffic and often going undetected until it’s too late. The NERC standard CIP-015-1: Internal Network Security Monitoring aims to help utility companies modernize their security operations. Instead of relying solely on keeping adversaries out, this standard requires companies to see and continuously monitor what’s happening inside their networks. Learn how Keysight Network Visibility solutions play a critical role in supporting electric utility companies as they work toward achieving their CIP-015-1 compliance objectives.

Technologies Driving Grid Transformation

 

Grid modernization is driven by the convergence of five critical technologies: advanced network communications, energy storage systems, renewable integration, cybersecurity frameworks, and distributed energy resources. These interconnected systems enable utilities to transition from centralized power generation to intelligent, bidirectional networks that deliver enhanced reliability, operational efficiency, and sustainable energy delivery.

 

Learn more about the grid and energy ecosystem and the technologies driving its transformation.

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Grid Modernization Starts with Keysight

Leverage Keysight's expertise in enabling industry transformation and cutting-edge design, emulation, and test solutions to overcome obstacles and realize global grid modernization.

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