Cooperative Agreement DEAR0000705

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's $200,000 Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of California, San Diego to develop a new data-driven power systems control framework with stability guarantees. The three-year award beginning March 2022 aims to design reinforcement learning algorithms for inverter-based frequency and voltage control of power grids that provide formal stability through a novel approach bridging Lyapunov control theory and...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $3,245,061 and granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity (CFDA 81.122 Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program), aims to develop and field demonstrate the benefits and usage of dynamic line rating (DLR) and advanced power flow control (APFC) technologies in New England. The project, led by the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, will investigate the synergies between DLR and APFC to address grid congestion,...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $6,753,489, granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), supports the implementation of Gridbeyond LLC's Renewable Controls Platform (RCP) software. The RCP is an AI-powered platform used to forecast, optimize, and control megawatt-scale inverter-based resources (IBRs) such as solar PV and battery energy storage systems (BESS). The...

This $36,034,716 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund a partnership between the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a host transmission utility. The project aims to install an Automatic Power Factor Controller (APFC) device, the SmartValve, at an interregional grid tie to reduce tap changes and increase the control range of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST) across a regional...

The Department of Energy awarded a $413,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) federal grant program to the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA), doing business as Aidea, to enhance the resiliency and transfer capability of Alaska's Railbelt electric grid. The project aims to reinforce interconnections between the Railbelt's primary regions by adding parallel transmission lines and implementing battery energy storage systems to resolve...

This $116,000,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund Commonwealth Edison Co. (ComEd) to implement a data fusion-empowered, interoperable control framework to modernize power grid planning and operations, while maximizing benefits across disadvantaged communities. The project will deploy a selection of grid-edge technologies for field demonstration and develop an interoperable control...

This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 $3,430,784 to the University of South Florida to develop and demonstrate advanced tools for grid operators to monitor and predict the dynamics of inverter-based resources (IBRs) in real-time. The project aims to enable accurate estimation of grid strength and inertia, dynamic state estimation,...

This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of data-driven power systems control with stability guarantees. Funded through the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award to Carnegie Mellon University will support three thrusts of collaborative research over a 30-month period ending February 2025. The research aims to design a new framework integrating reinforcement learning algorithms with Lyapunov stability theory to provide stability guarantees for...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $98,662,016 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Switched Source LLC, a for-profit limited liability company. The grant, with a performance period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029, will fund the deployment of distribution-level power flow controllers to a large utility at scale, and the incorporation of this medium voltage power flow control technology into the utility's planning and...

Synchrogrid, Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop adaptive relay settings for wide area coordination of the power grid. The work will be performed in College Station, Texas through June 27, 2022. This award is provided through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The program's mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and tools that transform understanding of nature and advance...