The National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO) received a $1.4 million project grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis on April 16, 2021 to complete work by July 15, 2021. The grant was awarded under the Energy Policy and Systems Analysis program (CFDA #81.250), which aims to fund analytical studies characterizing potential integrated strategies for multi-state regions to enhance energy innovation through regional...
This $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded 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 an integrated transmission and distribution system planning tool and establish strategies to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and resilience of the transmission and distribution infrastructure for seamless renewable energy penetration. The project, to be performed...
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) seeks to improve understanding of factors influencing community acceptance of large-scale solar energy (LSS) projects and test innovative community engagement strategies to increase that acceptance. The $2,325,734 award to the Solar & Storage Industries Institute, a non-profit...
This $300,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded on September 30, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis under the Energy Policy and Systems Analysis Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.250). The funding will support technical and economic analysis to enable energy-saving market transformation strategies across a multi-state region. The analysis is expected to result in research products such as economic models, forecasts, policy analyses, and studies that...
This $138,779 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program aims to develop a framework to assess how utility rates impact the adoption and benefits of distributed energy resources (DERs), particularly energy storage and electric vehicles (EVs). The key activities and expected outcomes of this one-year project include: 1) developing a simulation framework for...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (CFDA 81.122 - Electricity Research, Development and Analysis) provides $3,245,061 to Georgia Tech Research Corp to develop and field demonstrate the benefits and usage of dynamic line rating and advanced power flow control technologies in New England. The project aims to address changing weather conditions and the integration of offshore wind power. Key activities include...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,430,102 from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) 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. The project, titled "Sensor Data Enabled Utility Asset Capacity Utilization Maximization, Load Modeling, and Event Detection and Location," will leverage Advanced Metering...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $500,000 to assess the potential for implementing transactive energy services in rural New Hampshire communities. The project aims to study the technical and social factors that influence rural residents' willingness to participate in such energy-sharing, real-time pricing markets. It will examine the features and factors required to develop a socially...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) provides $286,612 to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to develop an explainable AI-supported performance monitoring system for distributed sustainable energy networks. The key objectives are to: (1) build a hierarchical learning framework for anomaly detection in distributed sustainable energy equipment, (2) propose a multi-modal learning method to improve anomaly...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $750,000 in funding to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to investigate the impacts of economic incentives, planning paradigms, and conservation concerns on electricity infrastructure investments. The project aims to improve the effectiveness and social impact of...