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...
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...
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...
This Project Grant award, valued at $499,992.00, was issued by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA program 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. The purpose of this award is to transform the traditional power grid into a more resilient and efficient energy system. The University of Pittsburgh, the award recipient, proposes to use fractionally rated power converters to transform the power grid from reactive to resistive systems, thereby eliminating...
This $500,000 Block Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program, under CFDA 81.135, was made to EVA Technology Corp. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the company's project titled "Anoprotonic Devices for >240 Performance Analog AI Hardware", which aims to develop novel analog artificial intelligence hardware components. This award aligns with ARPA-E's mission to fund transformative research and development...
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 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 $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...
This $500,000 Project Grant was awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under CFDA Program 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, on July 11, 2024. The grant was made to The Regents of the University of California, operating as the University of California, Berkeley, to fund the development of "HIGH-PERFORMANCE, MODULAR PIEZOELECTRIC COMPONENTS FOR MINIATURIZED POWER CONVERSION". The award has a performance period of 24 months, with a planned...
This $636,155 Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program for an "Intermodal Routing and Environmental Impact Analysis Tool" project. The goal of this 12-month project, running from May 2024 to May 2025, is to provide infrastructure planners with a tool to analyze how factors such as cost, transit time, disruptions/resilience, and greenhouse gas emissions impact freight flows across the current and...