Cooperative Agreement DEAR0001253

This $98,662,016 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) will fund Switched Source LLC to deploy distribution-level power flow controllers, specifically the Phase-EQ technology, to a large utility at scale. The goal is to incorporate this power flow control solution into the utility's planning and operational practices, with the primary objective of increasing the utility's load serving capacity. This will...

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...

This three-year $240,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research to advance the practical application of distributed learning-enabled control systems. The University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University will collaborate on developing foundational theory and integrated approaches for scalable and communication-efficient distributed control. This includes...

The Truckee-Carson Irrigation District (TCID) was awarded a $221,213 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to install solar-powered data loggers and transmitters at 31 existing water metering locations. This equipment will enable TCID to more efficiently manage water deliveries and use real-time data to prevent spills, theft, or over-delivery to downstream users. The...

This Project Grant award of $1,233,079.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework for modeling, designing, sensing, and controlling the post-fault stability of future power systems with varying levels of inverter-based resources and synchronous generators. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Establishing the theoretical foundations of energy functions for...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $3,245,061, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) federal grant program. The award is focused on developing, demonstrating, and deploying advanced power flow control and dynamic line rating solutions to enhance grid reliability and support the integration of offshore wind in the New England region. The project aims to...

This $395,226 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) aims to address computational and modeling challenges inherent in the design of large-scale electric transmission networks with high penetrations of renewable energy resources. The project will develop a new framework applying spatially-embedded complex network analysis to improve the efficiency, scenario coverage, and...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will support a collaborative research effort to accelerate the design of controllers for large-scale engineering systems, with a focus on transportation applications. The project aims to bridge the gap between simulated cyber environments and real-world physical operations by utilizing extensive offline datasets and offline reinforcement...

This $7,617,635 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program aims to modernize Tri-County Electric Cooperative Inc.'s electrical infrastructure in South Carolina. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant (July 2024 to July 2029) include: Upgrading outdated electricity meters with advanced Radio Frequency (RF) meters to provide timely and accurate energy consumption data....

This $700,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, supports research to enable intelligent, real-time control and optimization of next-generation cellular wireless networks. The Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees), a division of the Texas A&M University System, is leading this collaborative research effort. The project aims...