Project Grant DEEE0004208

This $275,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Community Energy Labs Inc.'s development of an advanced building management system using model predictive control and machine learning techniques. The system aims to automate complex aspects of energy-efficient building control to simplify setup and implementation for small to mid-sized commercial building owners. By reducing costs and complexity, the technology...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $197,828 awarded to Arizona State University on September 1, 2022 will fund research into causal theory of residential electricity consumption and production through August 31, 2024. The grant is part of NSF's Engineering Directorate 47.041 CFDA program. The project aims to enhance resident interactions with smart energy systems and empower all to benefit from new opportunities in smart electric grids. Through causal learning and analysis of...

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...

The Emerald Cities Collaborative will deliver deep energy retrofits and climate/health mitigation strategies to 120 low-income households through a $1,999,001 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Weatherization Assistance for Low-Income Persons program (CFDA #81.042). The grant period is from March 1, 2023 through February 28, 2026. The project aims to employ community engagement strategies in Washington and Massachusetts to conduct deep retrofits that improve home energy efficiency and...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $3,245,061, was provided by 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 is focused on developing, demonstrating, and deploying advanced power flow control and dynamic line rating solutions to enhance grid reliability and support the integration of offshore wind in the New England region. The project aims to...

This $19,719,298 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, aims to upgrade facilities and reduce the energy burden for Richmond Public Schools (RPS) in Virginia. The key objectives are to: (1) address decades of underinvestment in the disadvantaged community by improving facilities for a healthier and safer learning environment; (2) build a partnership with a local energy services company to...

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 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 (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $250,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop novel learning-based approaches for estimating the flexibility amount of grid edge resources (GERs) and designing equitable resource coordination and management methods. The project aims to transform the management of flexible energy resources in distribution electricity...

This $395,226 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering Program (CFDA 47.041) to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) aims to address computational and modeling challenges inherent in the design of large-scale electric transmission networks with high penetrations of renewable energy resources. The project will develop a new framework applying spatially-embedded complex network analysis to improve the efficiency, scenario coverage, and...