Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008139

This Cooperative Agreement award, 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) program, aims to develop, test, and demonstrate a comprehensive tool suite for making the secondary distribution grid visible to system operators and planners. The $1,400,000 project, awarded to New York University (NYU), will leverage advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and other sensor...

The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability awarded a $3,758,432 Cooperative Agreement to NV Energy Inc. on October 1, 2024 under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) federal grant program. The goal of this project is to demonstrate advanced dynamic line rating (DLR) technologies to improve grid efficiency, scale renewable energy integration, reduce congestion, enhance data analytics, and strengthen cybersecurity in NV Energy's...

This $360,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to advance graph signal processing techniques for electric power distribution system monitoring and control from July 2022 through June 2025. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the awardee Cornell University will develop a novel mathematical approach incorporating physical grid modeling into machine learning algorithms. The approach interprets system states as graph signals to extract features...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $1,531,403,297.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund a project by the California Energy Commission (CEC) to modernize and expand California's electrical grid. The key products and services to be delivered include: Reconductoring and rebuilding over 100 miles of transmission lines using advanced conductors to significantly increase transmission capacity. The...

The Department of Energy awarded a $33,328,742 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) to Liberty Utilities (Calpeco Electric) LLC, doing business as Liberty Energy, to deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and grid edge computing technology in the Lake Tahoe area of California. The project, known as "Project Leapfrog," aims to digitize Liberty Energy's metering fleet and operations, laying the foundation for broader...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability awarded a $704,588 Cooperative Agreement to North Dakota State University (NDSU) under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) federal grant program. The goal of this 3-year project is to develop and demonstrate a graph-based sensor data analytics tool to enable grid operators to monitor and manage inverter-driven oscillation (IDO) issues in the electric grid. The tool will leverage...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science (CFDA 81.049 - Office of Science Financial Assistance Program) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Aimilight Sensors And Intelligent Systems Inc. The funding will support a one-year project titled "Distributed Fiber Optical Sensors Technology for In-Situ Monitoring of Cable Insulation." The project aims to develop and demonstrate advanced distributed fiber optic sensing capabilities for real-time monitoring of cable insulation health and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability awarded a $4,057,259 Cooperative Agreement under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) program to Pitch Aeronautics Inc., a veteran-owned small business, to implement and test a weather-based Dynamic Line Rating (DLR) system on a section of the Idaho Power transmission network. The project will utilize drone-installed weather sensors and weather-based ampacity prediction software to enable...

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $116,000,000 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) federal grant program to Commonwealth Edison Co (ComEd) to implement a data fusion-empowered, interoperable control framework for modernizing power grid planning and operations. This project aims to deploy a selection of grid-edge technologies for field demonstration and develop an interoperable control architecture and grid-edge analytic platform to address...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,430,102.00 from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (CFDA 81.122 Electricity Research, Development and Analysis) aims to develop and demonstrate advanced data analytics for improved grid monitoring, operation, and control using advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data, and next-generation grid-edge computing metering. The project, titled "SENSOR...