Cooperative Agreement 70NANB20H138

The Smart Electric Power Alliance (Sepa) received a $400,000 cooperative agreement award from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program. The award will support efforts to increase interoperability of smart grid devices, increase power delivery reliability, and reduce costs for electric service consumers through standards development, interoperability testing, and cybersecurity work from October 1,...

This $1,803,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) aims to extend and demonstrate the use of digital twins across different areas of electric power generation. The project will focus on enhancing the security of electric power systems through design, cyber-informed engineering, laboratory-scale deployment, and testing in a relevant environment. The Electric Power Research Institute Inc....

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,296,542 Cooperative Agreement to Evgo Services LLC to develop low-cost tools for enabling third-party interoperability testing for electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) with the ISO-15118 plug and charge standard. The project also aims to develop conformance testing to define current and future iterations of the standard to promote widespread interoperability and...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $3,245,061.00 and awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity (CFDA 81.122 Electricity Research, Development and Analysis), aims to develop and field demonstrate the benefits and usage of dynamic line rating and advanced power flow control technologies in New England. The project, led by the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will investigate the synergies between these grid-enhancing technologies to address steady-state...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $5,276,645.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) federal grant program (CFDA 81.008). The project will update the Distributed Network Protocol (DNP3) secure authentication standard, specifically version 6 (DNP3-SAV6), to enable centralized management of authentication and authorization...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $5,583,698.00 to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) to develop an integrated, automated system to identify third-party and potential zero-day vulnerabilities, verify their exploitability dynamically, and create a feedback loop for rapid enhancement of static analysis capabilities. The objectives of this 3-year...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program provides $6,046,425 to deploy an Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Interoperability Test Bed. The project aims to increase industrial capacity, competition, redundancy, and broad access to validation testing and certification of Direct Current (DC) fast chargers with power ratings between 150 kilowatts...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008), provides $4,087,807 to GE Vernova Operations LLC to develop and demonstrate the Universal Utility Data Exchange (UUDEX) framework as a potential replacement for the Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol (ICCP) standard. The project aims to...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $1,200,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Interstate Renewable Energy Council Inc. (IREC) under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117). The project aims to accelerate innovative solutions addressing gaps and unclear requirements in new and developing solar, storage, electric vehicle (EV), and electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) markets. Key goals...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) awarded a $5,242,722 Cooperative Agreement to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008). This project, titled "Secure Telecommunications Architecture for Trusted and Resilient Electric Communications (STAR TREC)", will research, develop, test, and demonstrate zero-trust architectures...