Project Grant DEGD0000958

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $750,000 in funding to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), to investigate the impacts of economic incentives, planning paradigms, and conservation concerns on electricity infrastructure investments. The project aims to improve the effectiveness and social impact of...

This Project Grant award for $303,656.00 was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program. The award supports collaborative research to develop a framework for designing and implementing capacity markets in electricity systems that can incentivize sufficient investment in power generation capacity, storage, and demand-side management. The goal is to provide regulators with tools to promote optimal portfolios 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...

This Project Grant award of $456,607.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) is intended to support research on new economic mechanisms for discrete markets, with a focus on power systems and electric vehicle charging. The project aims to investigate the use of copositive programming as a tool for designing pricing mechanisms in discrete markets, such as unit commitment in power systems, where startup and shutdown costs create binary on/off decisions....

This $452,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research on improving the interconnection process for renewable energy generators to connect to the U.S. power grid. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will analyze how the current interconnection queue design acts as a bottleneck to renewable deployment and quantify the costs and benefits of potential policy reforms. It will construct new datasets on...

This Project Grant award of $1,233,079.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework for modeling, designing, sensing, and controlling the post-fault stability of future power systems with varying levels of inverter-based resources and synchronous generators. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Establishing the theoretical foundations of energy functions for...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,000,270 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Marin Clean Energy. This 3-year project, starting October 1, 2024 and ending September 30, 2027, seeks to deploy behind-the-meter battery energy storage systems paired with solar at critical facilities in San Anselmo, CA. The goal is to provide emergency backup power and reduce daily energy use from 4-9...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $6,827,637 Cooperative Agreement to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to establish and complete the Collaborative Ancillary Service Accelerator for Renewables (CASAR) pilot program. The primary objective of this 6-12 month project is to engage industry stakeholders in designing, implementing, and demonstrating multi-level control architectures to support ancillary services from wind and...

This Project Grant award of $409,927.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop novel algorithmic solutions to advance the optimal scheduling of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution grids. The key objectives are to: 1) reduce data communication requirements for grid operators to orchestrate DERs by strategically identifying influential data sources, 2) leverage machine learning tools to transform distilled data for...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency, Inc. on September 30, 2024. The objective of this 1-year award under CFDA 81.250 (Energy Policy and Systems Analysis) is to fund analytical studies that characterize and examine the potential of an integrated strategy for a multi-state region to enhance and accelerate energy innovation via a regional energy innovation ecosystem. Typical...