Cooperative Agreement DEEE0006327

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,991,463 Cooperative Agreement on October 1, 2024 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Florida International University. The project, titled "Advanced Methods for Integrating Renewables in Grid Planning (ADMIRE-GRIDPLAN)", focuses on enhancing existing commercial grid planning tools to better incorporate variable renewable energy, optimize asset utilization,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from 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), provides $6,753,489 to Gridbeyond LLC to implement an AI-powered Renewable Controls Platform (RCP) software solution. The project aims to integrate the RCP platform with a utility partner's operations and dispatch software to provide centralized and local control of inverter-based...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $3,872,767 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop, integrate, and demonstrate a stochastic, decentralized AC unit commitment and optimal power flow system that supports secure operation of bulk electricity grids with high penetrations of inverter-based resources. The...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) awarded a $9,145,394 Cooperative Agreement to Portland General Electric Company to demonstrate grid services using a combination of grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) inverter-based renewable technologies at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon. The 3-year project, which commenced on October 1, 2023, will integrate GFM control into a portion of the existing wind and battery...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded a $135,956 project grant to South Dakota State University (SDSU) to develop a highly efficient, modular, and scalable power system that integrates photovoltaic, energy storage, and smart micro-inverter technologies. The goal is to create a novel power conversion system architecture and control capabilities to enable greater penetration of solar energy into the electric grid and support grid stability and resilience. The key...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $4,615,184 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Quanta Technology, LLC. The goal of this project, titled "Grid Operator Analytics and Assessment Tools for Inverter-Based Resources Dominated Grid (GOAAT-IBR)", is to develop cloud-based grid health assessment and risk assessment tools to improve situational awareness of large-scale...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $6,827,637 Cooperative Agreement to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to establish and complete the Collaborative Ancillary Service Accelerator for Renewables (CASAR) pilot program. The primary objective of this 6-12 month project is to engage industry stakeholders in designing, implementing, and demonstrating multi-level control architectures to support ancillary services from wind and...

Altitude Grid, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to develop a Reinforced Hierarchical Probabilistic Solar Forecasting Tool Based on Dynamic Multi-Model Machine Learning. The tool will utilize machine learning techniques to provide probabilistic solar power forecasting through June 26, 2023. This aligns with the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program's mission under the 81.049 CFDA to transform understanding of...

This $295,149 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to address protection challenges arising from the increasing penetration of renewable energy in modern electric grids. The University of Denver is the prime recipient, and the project will run from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project will explore novel model-driven and data-driven solutions to ensure dependable fault detection and secure relay operation for power grids...

This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop new tools for managing battery energy storage systems (BESS) in modern power grids. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: New stochastic modeling frameworks for short-term BESS operations, joint BESS bidding in energy and ancillary...