Cooperative Agreement DEAR0000675

This National Science Foundation project grant of $333,289 will support research from August 2022 to July 2025 related to adaptive, human-centric coordination of demand-side flexibility at scale in electric power distribution networks. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award to Washington State University will enable the development of analytics and a prototype system to efficiently leverage flexible demand commitments from multiple small consumers in uncertain electric...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $250,000 to the College of William and Mary to support research and education activities under the EASER framework from June 2022 through May 2025. The award will fund the development of an integrated paradigm for application execution on heterogeneous high-performance computing clusters. Key products and services include compiler-driven performance prediction models, an...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $1,080,685.00 to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) to develop and demonstrate an advanced open-source optimization tool called "HYDROFLEX". The key objective of this 2-year project is to achieve the lowest total cost of energy, including the amortized cost of new energy technologies,...

This Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) Federal Grant Program (CFDA #81.135) provides $276,480 to Global Optimal Technology, Inc. for their project "Robust and High-Performance Nonlinear Security-Constrained Multi-Period Resource Commitment and Optimal Power Flow." The one-year award period runs from September 2022 to September 2023. Through this funding, Global Optimal Technology will deliver products and services...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $225,000 project grant to Ecco International Inc. to support work under the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The goal of the award is to enhance industry-standard tools for alternating current optimal unit commitment through Ecco International's "LLGOMAX: Enhancing Industry-Standard Tools for AC Optimal Unit Commitment" project. Specifically, Ecco International will partner with...

This $388,847 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to Trustees of Boston University is focused on developing new methods for managing the complex uncertainties introduced by increasing user participation and responsiveness in critical infrastructure systems such as power grids and transportation networks. The project seeks to integrate classical feedback control, incentive design, online optimization, and stochastic modeling to enable...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation project grant, awarded to Purdue University, aims to develop approaches for the joint operation of coupled municipal drinking water and electric power distribution networks. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project include: Developing operational planning and real-time control strategies for these coupled water-power networks under uncertainty. Designing...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), provides $737,518 in funding to North Carolina State University to develop an operational framework that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques to increase the operational flexibility of hydropower facilities. The project activities will include outreach,...

This $275,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop and test new scheduling algorithms for improving the performance of modern database systems. The goal is to create models and policies that can efficiently allocate limited hardware resources, such as compute and memory, to handle a stream of parallelizable database queries with varying levels of parallelizability and service...

This Project Grant award, totaling $750,000, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The award will fund research at Howard University from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2026 to develop new energy management algorithms and scheduling frameworks for fault-tolerant real-time embedded systems (RTES). The goal is to reduce energy consumption while satisfying fault tolerance and quality of service...