Project Grant DEAR0000555

This $98,662,016 Department of Energy Project Grant, awarded under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience Program (CFDA 81.254), will fund the deployment of distribution-level power flow controllers to a large utility to enhance the reliability, load capacity, and renewable energy integration of their distribution grid. The key product is the installation of Phase-EQ devices, a commercially available medium-voltage power flow control technology, across the utility's distribution...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) awarded a $9,145,394 Cooperative Agreement to Portland General Electric Company to demonstrate grid services using a combination of grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) inverter-based renewable technologies at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon. The 3-year project, which commenced on October 1, 2023, will integrate GFM control into a portion of the existing wind and battery...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $225,000 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of Colorado from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2026. The University will develop a physics-informed real-time optimal power flow model using machine learning techniques to provide close to optimal solutions for power plant outputs while considering dynamic constraints to avoid grid instabilities. Key activities include advancing techniques combining...

The Guam Power Authority (GPA) received a $1,400,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) federal grant program. The award will support GPA's collaboration with PXISE Energy Solutions, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop a cloud-based real-time and predictive grid behavior...

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 Trustees of Columbia University in New York City will receive $400,000 through a one-year Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program (CFDA 81.135). The grant will support Columbia University's project "Solving Multiperiod SCOPF Problems via Nonlinear Optimization," which aims to enhance the use of local nonlinear solvers and warm-start techniques within a...

This $260,000 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of data-enabled modeling, monitoring, and optimization algorithms targeting power system dynamics from 2022-2025. The University of Texas at Austin, through its parent organization the University of Texas System, will receive funding under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to correlate synchrophasor data and develop Gaussian process and stability-aware optimal power flow tools. Key outcomes will include...

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 U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4.62 million Cooperative Agreement to Quanta Technology, LLC to develop the Grid Operator Analytics and Assessment Tools for Inverter-Based Resources Dominated Grid (GOAAT-IBR). The goal of this project is to create a cloud-based suite of tools and applications that will enhance the situational awareness of large-scale transmission systems with increasing deployments of inverter-based resources...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), provides $3,872,767 to Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop, integrate, and demonstrate a stochastic, decentralized AC unit commitment and optimal power flow system to support secure operation of electricity grids with high penetrations of inverter-based resources. The project aims to...