Cooperative Agreement DEEE0005986

This $452,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research on improving the interconnection process for renewable energy generators to connect to the U.S. power grid. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will analyze how the current interconnection queue design acts as a bottleneck to renewable deployment and quantify the costs and benefits of potential policy reforms. It will construct new datasets on...

This collaborative research project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $240,000 in funding to UC Riverside over a three-year period (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2028). The project develops advanced topological and computational modeling frameworks to improve the integration and control of ultra-high-dimensional distributed energy resources within modern power transmission...

Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop an externalized decision-making user interface for training smart grid operators. The interface aims to help operators of the nation's energy infrastructure learn to manage complex systems. In keeping with the Office of Science's mission to transform understanding of nature and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program provides $365,897 to the Regents of the University of Michigan - University of Michigan-Dearborn to enhance grid reliability and stability through the integration of distributed energy resources. Key goals include developing fundamental knowledge to assess real-world power grid reliability, novel control algorithms to improve grid stability, and a shared platform for...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports a collaborative research project between the University of Arizona and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The project aims to develop new distributionally robust quadratic optimization models and methodologies to better integrate renewable energy sources into power systems, providing cleaner, more reliable, and cost-effective energy solutions. Key objectives...

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...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Vermont Transco LLC received a $1.87 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122), awarded October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. The project, titled "Model-Based Adaptive Platform Environment for Real-Time Dynamic Operating Envelopes and Operator Trust (MAPLE ROOT)," will develop and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $1.47 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122) for the period October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. The project delivers advanced machine learning-based analytics solutions designed to enhance power system reliability and resilience...

This $409,927 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop novel algorithmic solutions to optimize the scheduling of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution grids. The project, awarded to Purdue University, will address challenges in real-time DER orchestration by identifying critical data streams and integrating machine learning models into grid scheduling. Key technical objectives include incorporating feature...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) project grant under CFDA program 47.041 "Engineering" aims to develop new distributionally robust quadratic optimization models and methods to effectively integrate highly uncertain renewable energy into power systems. The $300,000 award to the University of Illinois will fund research to: (1) develop conic reformulations for distributionally robust quadratic programming problems, (2) design efficient algorithms to solve these problems, and (3)...