Dr. Ning Kang is the Department Manager of the Idaho National Laboratory’s Power & Energy Systems Department. Ning also serves as the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium’s Flexible Generation and Load Pillar Lead, one of the six pillars under DOE’s Grid Modernization Initiative. Before joining INL, she was a Principal Engineer at the Argonne National Laboratory where she focused on research in transmission and distribution systems (T&D) co-simulation and planning and operations coordination, reliability impact of distributed energy resources (DERs) on the bulk electric system, advanced distribution management system (ADMS), and microgrid integration and impact analysis. Ning has six years’ industry R&D experience when she was a Senior R&D Engineer at ABB U.S. Corporate Research Center in Raleigh, NC. At ABB, she was the main contributor to developing a substation-based protection and automation solution for ABB’s substation controllers, a Volt-VAR optimization solution considering high DER penetration for ABB’s DMS software, and condition-based and data-driven algorithms for ABB’s recloser controllers. She is the main creator of an open-source T&D systems co-simulation software (TDcoSim) and holds five U.S. patents and one U.S. patent application. She has co-authored more than 55 journal and conference papers, book chapters, and technical reports.​ Throughout her career, she has been invited to serve as session chairs, plenary session and panel speakers, as well as lecturers at more than 25 national and international conferences and meetings.

Clean and renewable energy resources 

Grid integration

Energy systems decarbonization

Power systems reliability and resilience