This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $3,430,784.00 and spanning from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, was granted by 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). The primary objective of this project is to develop and demonstrate advanced tools for inverter-based resource (IBR) power plants and utilities, enabling grid operators to have real-time...
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...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $6,616,916 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to GE Vernova Operations LLC. The purpose of the "Grid-Ready Wind" project is to demonstrate utility-scale wind power plants' ability to provide traditional and emerging grid services in both grid-following and grid-forming modes through a centralized control framework. The project...
This $1,632,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity (CFDA 81.122 - Electricity Research, Development and Analysis), advances the development of standardized, modular microgrid control systems for remote Alaskan communities. The project aims to engage these communities and provide them with tools to collect and standardize data on their local energy systems and needs. This data will then be used to create model-based simulations of various...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,994,068 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Washington State University (WSU). The project, titled "Planning Tools for Managing Uncertainties in Future Power Grids", will develop open-source planning tools to help manage the modeling complexities and uncertainties posed by inverter-based resources (IBRs) and extreme weather events in...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $2,090,080,308 Cooperative Agreement under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) federal grant program to the Minnesota Department of Commerce Division of Energy Resources. This award, dated October 1, 2024, will support the Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue (JTIQ) Transmission Study Process and Portfolio projects to facilitate the interconnection of approximately 28 gigawatts of new renewable energy generation, primarily wind...
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,...
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...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (CFDA 81.122 - Electricity Research, Development and Analysis) provides $1,400,000.00 to New York University to develop, test, and field-demonstrate a comprehensive tool suite for making the secondary electric distribution system visible to system operators and planners. The project aims to achieve this through synergistic, grid-level data analytics using advanced...