Project Grant DEAR0001299

This Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) Federal Grant Program (CFDA #81.135) provides $276,480 to Global Optimal Technology, Inc. for their project "Robust and High-Performance Nonlinear Security-Constrained Multi-Period Resource Commitment and Optimal Power Flow." The one-year award period runs from September 2022 to September 2023. Through this funding, Global Optimal Technology will deliver products and services...

Federal Grant Award Summary Global Optimal Technology, Inc. received a $485,000 Project Grant award on December 3, 2025, from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135 for participation in the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The award supports research and development of an innovative AC Security-Constrained Resource Commitment (SC-RC) methodology designed to schedule and optimize energy resources under alternating current power flow, ramping,...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $225,000 project grant to Ecco International Inc. to support work under the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The goal of the award is to enhance industry-standard tools for alternating current optimal unit commitment through Ecco International's "LLGOMAX: Enhancing Industry-Standard Tools for AC Optimal Unit Commitment" project. Specifically, Ecco International will partner with...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $399,902 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to support its "Alternating Direction Decomposition with Strong Bounding and Convexification (ADD-SBC) for Solving Security Constrained AC Unit Commitment Problems" initiative under ARPA-E's Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The grant period runs from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. Under this...

The University of Pittsburgh was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop tighter mixed-integer programming formulations for quadratic security constrained unit commitment (SCUC) optimization under the agency's Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The one-year award period runs from September 7, 2022 to September 6, 2023. As part of the work, $400k in subawards were provided to Georgia Tech Research...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary Columbia University was awarded $390,000 under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.135) on November 14, 2025, with a completion date of November 16, 2027. The project, titled "Further Developments of ACOPF Engines," is funded through the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3 prize funding mechanism. This research and development initiative will advance algorithms for multiperiod...

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...

Mississippi State University was awarded a $367,345 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop software for solving large-scale, mixed-integer, nonlinear, non-convex, and multi-period AC security-constrained optimal power flow problems with unit commitment and line switching. The grant-funded project, titled "Intelligent Partitioning Based Fully Parallel AC Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow (PSCOPF)," aims to...

Federal Grant Award Summary Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $595,000 Project Grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under the ARPA-E Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.135), awarded November 14, 2025, with completion targeted for November 13, 2027. Under the ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3 solicitation, MIT will enhance and advance a high-performance computational framework for solving large-scale security-constrained AC (alternating...

This $36,034,716 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund a partnership between the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a host transmission utility. The project aims to install an Automatic Power Factor Controller (APFC) device, the SmartValve, at an interregional grid tie to reduce tap changes and increase the control range of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST) across a regional...