The University of Florida was awarded a $359,689 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to characterize the capacity of controllable distributed energy resources to provide energy storage services to the power grid. The three-year project beginning July 1, 2021 will evaluate how devices like batteries and electric vehicles can support energy storage when connected to the grid. As the place of performance is listed as Gainesville, Florida, it can be...
This $330,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Purdue University from November 2022 through July 2025 to develop analytics and a prototype system for adaptive, human-centric coordination of demand-side flexibility at scale in electric power distribution networks. The goal is to enable actionable demand-side flexibility through adequate representation of consumer constraints and interactions with the energy system and provider. Researchers will develop learning...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $333,289 will support research from August 2022 to July 2025 related to adaptive, human-centric coordination of demand-side flexibility at scale in electric power distribution networks. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the award to Washington State University will enable the development of analytics and a prototype system to efficiently leverage flexible demand commitments from multiple small consumers in uncertain electric...
This $175,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of a real-time framework for integrating electric vehicles with microgrids. The University of Florida will receive the funding to design an innovative machine learning algorithm for short-term load forecasting in microgrids, develop a cooperative game theory model to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $250,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop novel learning-based approaches for estimating the flexibility amount of grid edge resources (GERs) and designing equitable resource coordination and management methods. The project aims to transform the management of flexible energy resources in distribution electricity...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $280,628 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund research on advanced and highly integrated power conversion systems for grid stability and resiliency from May 2021 through April 2024. The goal of the research is to improve the quality and reliability of the nation's electrical grid through...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees received a $300,596 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop technologies for temporal-spatial control of electric-driven water facilities to support renewable energy management. The three-year award, issued on September 1, 2021 and set to conclude on August 31, 2024, will support research into coordinating water infrastructure operations for contingency response and integrated...
The University of South Florida received a $350,000 project grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop dynamic model identification techniques for inverter-based distributed energy resources. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this three-year award running from May 2021 through April 2024 aims to improve understanding and control of inverters that interface distributed generation systems such as solar panels to the electric grid. By advancing inverter...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded $500,079 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Utah Office of Sponsored Projects. The five-year project grant will support the development of a scalable and secure control framework for distributed grid-edge energy resources to enhance power grid reliability. Specifically, the university researchers will design optimization, machine learning, and statistical...
The University of South Florida was awarded a $299,717 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to develop a graph signal processing framework for situational awareness in smart grids. The goal of this three-year project grant, awarded September 1, 2021 and set to be completed by August 31, 2024, is to improve situational awareness capabilities for smart grid operators through new signal processing techniques applied to...