Cooperative Agreement DEEE0011375

Award Date 10/1/24
Completion Date 3/31/26
Dollars Obligated $4.6M
Federal Grant Program
81.087
Assistance Type
Cooperative Agreement
Place of Performance
Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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  1. Configuring a cloud-based data analytics platform to ingest and analyze streaming and historical data from various utility systems and sensors.
  2. Researching and developing data analytics techniques for real-time estimation of effective inertia, grid strength, and detection/location of sub-synchronous oscillations in IBR-dominated power systems.
  3. Designing advanced visualization tools to convey actionable information on system health and risk to grid operators.
  4. Developing applications for disturbance data analysis, automated event reporting, and hardware sensor health monitoring.
  5. Creating a decision support system to provide operators with recommendations for mitigating IBR abnormal behaviors and oscillations.
  6. Validating the developed applications through real-time digital simulation and field demonstrations.
  7. Establishing a commercialization and implementation roadmap for the GOAAT-IBR suite.

The project will run from October 2024 to March 2026.

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