The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4,615,184 Cooperative Agreement to Quanta Technology, LLC under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this project, titled "Grid Operator Analytics and Assessment Tools for Inverter-Based Resources Dominated Grid (GOAAT-IBR)", is to develop a cloud-based suite of tools and applications to improve situational awareness and mitigate system...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under CFDA Program 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development, aims to collect data from an existing utility-scale direct current (DC)-coupled photovoltaic (PV)-plus-storage plant, prepare the data for public sharing, and provide analyses on solar resource, plant performance, and battery degradation. The $249,984 award, granted on May 1, 2024,...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,200,000 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) to Midcontinent Independent System Operator Inc. (MISO) on October 1, 2024. The objective of this project is to build an "Operations Uncertainty Platform" that addresses the operational needs for managing variability and uncertainty in large electric grids. This platform is intended to provide capability,...
This $3,750,000 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 (CFDA 81.087) program will support the Solar & Storage Industries Institute, a non-profit organization, in developing consensus-based solutions to address challenges around siting large-scale solar (LSS) projects. The project aims to speed up LSS project permitting, reduce associated soft costs,...
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 federal 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 $3,640,232 to Iowa State University of Science and Technology to develop novel aggregation and control algorithms, Security Constraints Unit Commitment (SCUC), and Security Constraints Economic Dispatch (SCED) formulations and solution methods that enable the market...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $6,616,916 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to GE Vernova Operations LLC, operating as the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center. The overall objective of the "Grid-Ready Wind" project is to demonstrate the ability of utility-scale wind power plants to provide traditional and emerging grid services, in both grid-following and grid-forming...
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 federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to reduce barriers to solar photovoltaic (PV) circularity across the value chain. The $5,979,459 award to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) will fund the development of innovative technology solutions, strategic partnerships, and community benefits to promote solar...
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...