to address overall systems operation, reliability, safety, power quality, and institutional issues. This subcontract to develop, model, and test the DENNIS TM household/neighborhood controller approach supports the program's R&D focus of strategic research. Specifically, the project meets the needs for automated, adaptive, intelligent interconnection and control as well as technology to enable aggregation, grid support, and ancillary services from distributed resources. The objective of this subcontract over its 3-year duration is to develop a household controller module and demonstrate the ability of a group of these household controllers to operate through an intelligent, neighborhood controller. The controllers will provide a smart, technologically advanced, simple, efficient, and economic solution for aggregating a community of small distributed generators into a larger single, virtual generator capable of selling power or other services to a utility, independent system operator (ISO), or other entity in a coordinated manner. 1. Switching and power-conversion devices in the laboratory had remote-operation capabilities built in, and each of these devices was tested from a central computer. 2. A 500-W proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell was added to the existing photovoltaic and wind generation capacity installed at the laboratory.