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...
This $500,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds the development of algorithms and computational tools to optimize electric power system planning and operations during extreme events such as wildfires and hurricanes. Awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the five-year award to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation from February 2022 to January 2027 aims to address computational challenges associated with power grid nonlinearities, uncertainties from renewable energy...
The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University from September 2021 through August 2024. The grant supports collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CPS: MEDIUM: ENABLING DER INTEGRATION VIA REDESIGN OF INFORMATION FLOWS" under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The research aims to improve integration of distributed energy resources by redesigning information...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Vermont & State Agricultural College (UVM) to develop a generalized distributed framework for solving large-scale power grid problems. The project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in nonlinear programming, physics-inspired graph-partitioning, and combinatorial optimization to enable fast and robust simulations and optimizations of the future power...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The grant supports the development of a "Collaborative Research: Scalable Circuit Theoretic Framework for Large Grid Simulations and Optimizations" project. The project aims to create a generalized distributed framework for solving large-scale power grid problems that are both fast and robust, enabling transformative changes in future...
This NSF Engineering program Project Grant, awarded to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), aims to develop novel modeling and optimization approaches to enable more efficient utilization of renewable energy and energy storage resources (ESRs) for low-carbon power grid operation. The $395,783 award, with a funding period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2029, will support research to create ESR market participation models, formulation tightening techniques, and optimization methods to address...
The National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering awarded this $5,000,000 Project Grant under the CFDA program 47.079 to establish the U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid. The center will bring together an international team to assess the risk of extreme climate events to power grids, develop new grid modernization technologies, and design adaptation and mitigation solutions. Key focus areas include customized risk modeling,...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $400,000 Project Grant to The Johns Hopkins University under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) for the period of June 1, 2023 through May 31, 2026. This NSF grant aims to develop new data-driven modeling and analysis techniques for cyber-physical systems through a novel combination of machine learning and physics-based approaches. Specifically, Johns Hopkins University will work to transform human interaction with complex engineered...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $267,323 Project Grant to the CAL Poly Corporation at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The grant, funded through the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of new computing methods to improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of the electric power grid. Specifically, the project team will research electronic analog and hybrid computing approaches to address challenges...
The National Science Foundation awarded $298,144 under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to Impact Allies Inc. on September 15, 2022 for the development of an open-source ecosystem to increase consumer adoption and support academic research and education in renewable energy. Specifically, the award will fund the creation of open-source software and hardware applications as well as access to large data sets. The software will provide intuitive...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $5,000,000 project grant under the Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) to The Johns Hopkins University to establish the Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-Free Society (EPICS) Center. The EPICS Center aims to develop tools and methodologies for transitioning power grids to 100% renewable energy sources. Key activities include:
Developing high-fidelity and computationally efficient modeling and optimization tools for integrating distributed solar, wind, and energy storage resources onto power grids
Integrating techno-economic principles to enable stakeholders to manage the grid's evolution towards 100% clean energy goals
Training undergraduate and graduate students at U.S. institutions on these critical innovations
The grant also provides sub-awards to partner organizations including the University of California, Davis ($2.3 million) to manage data on transmission interconnections, Georgia TECH Research Corporation ($2.1 million) to design new decentralized optimization and machine learning algorithms, and Resources for the Future ($1.6 million) to research the role of hybrid electricity markets in supporting reliability and decarbonization. This collaborative, international initiative aims to accelerate the technological readiness and policy frameworks necessary for widespread adoption of 100% renewable power systems.