This Project Grant award for $338,232, effective August 1, 2024 through July 31, 2029, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Temple University. The project, titled "TRACING CULTURAL HISTORIES AND SOCIO-TECHNICAL DYNAMICS OF UNEVEN POWER GRIDS", aims to reevaluate conventional wisdom on global electrification efforts and enhance knowledge on large socio-technical systems by examining the ethical,...
This five-year, $721,211 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program will support research at Colorado State University to develop more robust representations of sociotechnical transitions related to housing, well-being, and energy. The multidisciplinary team will conduct interviews and surveys to understand diverse stakeholder perceptions of well-being and social paradigms of change. They will represent the influence of networks and institutions in models...
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 National Science Foundation Project Grant of $360,277 supports collaborative research at Yale University from October 2022 to September 2027 under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The research pursues upgrades to projections that describe sociotechnical change related to housing, well-being, and energy-coupled transitions. Specifically, the multidisciplinary team will elucidate perceptions of well-being and paradigms of change among diverse groups; represent the roles of...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $197,828 awarded to Arizona State University on September 1, 2022 will fund research into causal theory of residential electricity consumption and production through August 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering Directorate 47.041 CFDA program. The project aims to enhance resident interactions with smart energy systems and empower all to benefit from new opportunities in smart electric grids. Through causal learning and analysis of...
This $650,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075) to The Pennsylvania State University supports research to strengthen the resilience and equity of U.S. energy infrastructure during extreme cold weather events. The project develops an integrated framework to assess and improve the allocation of natural gas between local distribution companies and power plants. It involves modeling the impacts of winter...
This two-year, $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research examining tenant immobility and its impacts on family well-being. The grantee, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California, will investigate how social networks, neighborhood contexts, and indoor environmental conditions influence low-income renters' decisions to remain in their homes in Los Angeles County,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $520,553 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Cincinnati. The grant supports a 3-year research project to establish a community-engaged process and integrated modeling platform to help residents in underserved communities in Cincinnati, Ohio identify, plan, and implement decarbonization retrofits for their homes. The project aims to democratize scientific data on building...
This $242,520 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research examining the impacts of electricity market regulation on energy transitions and environmental justice. Over a three-year period ending in February 2025, researchers at Columbia University will develop structural economic models to evaluate how rate-of-return regulation historically influenced shifts from coal to natural gas generation and may...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,599,996 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to Purdue University. The goal of this award is to develop a new paradigm for smart energy assistants that monitor energy use and needs in affordable housing communities, and create customized interventions to mitigate energy-related disparities experienced by low to moderate income households. The project will involve...