Project Grant 2315029
- This $453,264 three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund anthropological and social science research at Emory University exploring the impact of energy burden on homemaking and welfare. Through ethnographic research methods including archival analysis, stakeholder interviews, and daily behavior monitoring, the researchers will examine how low-income households use and understand domestic energy, and how energy...
- 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...
- 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 $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 $257,455 National Science Foundation project grant supports research examining the impacts of electricity market regulation on energy transitions and environmental justice. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Arizona will model how rate-of-return regulation historically influenced shifts from coal to natural gas generation and how regulatory changes may impact ongoing transitions to renewable energy. Researchers will also...
- This $549,999 National Science Foundation award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research from September 2022 through August 2025 to develop an energy justice framework and assessment tools for evaluating the impacts of electric vehicle deployment on electricity infrastructure and consumers. George Mason University is the primary awardee and will collaborate with Syracuse University on specific tasks. The project team will design metrics and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $265,702 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop an integrated systems model linking consumer activities, expenditures, and energy use from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2026. The research will construct a holistic model of U.S. energy demand considering how consumer actions simultaneously impact multiple sectors, including residences, vehicles, commercial buildings, server networks,...
- 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 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...
- This Project Grant award, totaling $203,802, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The award will fund a 4-year research project titled "CAREER: CAS- CLIMATE: An Altruistic Game Theoretic Framework to Characterize Environmental Responsiveness of Residential Electricity Consumption" at Purdue University. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Generate new knowledge on residential customers' valuation of...
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ENERGY JUSTICE: UNDERSTANDING DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS -THE ADOPTION OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGIES AND CONSERVATION BEHAVIORS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE ENERGY DEMAND AND IMPROVE PEOPLE'S PHYSICAL AND FINANCIAL WELL-BEING. THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR HOUSEHOLDS FACING ENERGY POVERTY, WHO MAY FORGO BASIC NEEDS OR ENGAGE IN RISKY BEHAVIORS TO MEET THEIR ENERGY NEEDS. U.S. ELECTRIC UTILITIES CURRENTLY OFFER OVER 900 ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS THAT AIM TO REDUCE HOUSEHOLD ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND IMPROVE LIVING CONDITIONS. THESE PROGRAMS EITHER PROVIDE INFORMATION TO HELP INDIVIDUALS CHANGE THEIR ENERGY CONSUMPTION HABITS OR OFFER FINANCIAL INCENTIVES SUCH AS REBATES AND LOANS TO LOWER THE COSTS OF ADOPTING ENERGY-EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES. THERE IS MIXED EVIDENCE, HOWEVER, REGARDING THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE PROGRAMS, AS THEIR IMPACTS DEPEND ON FACTORS INCLUDING INCOME LEVELS, REBOUND EFFECTS, AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION BEHAVIORS. UNFORTUNATELY, MANY ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ARE NOT EFFECTIVELY REACHING DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, AND THE EQUITY OF THEIR IMPACTS IS UNDER-STUDIED. THERE IS A NEED TO INVESTIGATE HOW THESE PROGRAMS CAN EFFECTIVELY CHANGE ENERGY CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR AND ADDRESS INSTANCES OF ENERGY POVERTY IN HOUSEHOLDS. THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE HETEROGENEOUS IMPACTS OF MULTIPLE ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO INEQUITABLE PROGRAM IMPACTS. THIS PROJECT HAS THREE PARTS: 1) EVALUATING THE HETEROGENEOUS IMPACTS OF FOUR DIFFERENT ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS USING QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS, 2) EXAMINING HOW THE HETEROGENEOUS IMPACTS ARE RELATED TO MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ENERGY POVERTY, AND 3) MODELING ENERGY BEHAVIORS TO UNCOVER THE MECHANISMS BEHIND INEQUITABLE PROGRAM IMPACTS. THE DATA INCLUDE ACTUAL CONSUMPTION INFORMATION PROVIDED BY A TALLAHASSEE ENERGY PROVIDER AS WELL AS SURVEY AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS. THIS PROJECT NOT ONLY PROVIDES A FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION TO UNCOVERING THE DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS OF ENERGY PROGRAMS AND THEIR UNDERLYING MECHANISMS, BUT ALSO HAS DIRECT SOCIETAL BENEFITS BY HELPING DEVELOP MORE EFFECTIVE AND BETTER-TARGETED PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE CONSUMERS? FINANCIAL AND PHYSICAL WELL-BEING, PARTICULARLY IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $0 | 5/16/25 | ||
| Not listed | $200.0k | 8/9/23 |