Our group successfully hosted the UNIFI Annual Meeting on UT Austin on February 6-7, 2024. This latest gathering featured in-depth technical presentations from consortium members, big-picture viewpoints from invited speakers across academia and industry, and posters from our student researchers. Early results from the 1 MW multi-vendor experiment coming together at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) drew a lot of discussion, as did unifi’s latest endeavor to set up agile teams focusing on cross-cut topics relevant across the wide spectrum of the consortium’s activities including: control under constraints, stability limitations/interactions of GFM technology with multiple devices, scalability in simulation and control architectures, and certification.