The Johns Hopkins University was awarded a two-year, $336,426 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems to design a peer-to-peer energy exchange platform and transition the U.S. power grid architecture.
Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the project aims to fundamentally redesign the power grid to accommodate widespread distributed energy resources while improving reliability, resilience and efficiency. Key activities include developing a decentralized control platform for managing customer-end distributed energy resources via utility infrastructure, and coupling this with an energy management system to establish appropriate network usage charges. Broader impacts involve curriculum development and research opportunities for students. The multi-year planning model seeks to optimize nationwide adoption of a peer-centric grid and fully realize smart grid benefits.