The 2nd Workshop on Challenges in Next-Generation Analytics for the Future Power Grid was organized by PNNL on September 19th, 20th 2013 at Seattle, Washington. The workshop, organized as a part of PNNL’s Future Power Grid Initiative (FPGI), was focused on building a community of researchers from different field to discuss the needs, requirements, in creating a vision for the next generation analytics for the power grid. The workshop had breakout sessions focused on three key-themes: (a) Numerical Libraries (b) Operational Decision Support and (c) Software Infrastructure. M2ACS participants Zhenyu Huang, Shuai Lu, and Shrirang G. Abhyankar participated in this workshop.