Block Grant DENA0003330

The U.S. 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 under the Energy Policy and Systems Analysis federal grant program (CFDA 81.250). The objective of this award 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...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate provides $600,000 to Texas A&M University-Kingsville to establish an integrated research, education, and outreach program focused on data-driven renewable energy research. The goal is to create a community of practice for middle and high school STEM teachers, researchers, and industry partners to conduct collaborative research and develop curricular modules on renewable energy and data science. Specifically,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $418,561 federal Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The 5-year project, titled "CAREER: Evaluating Cooperative Intelligence in Connected Communities", is exploring how groups of buildings can autonomously share and manage distributed energy resources such as solar panels, batteries, and generators to enhance energy efficiency and sustainability. Through a...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,993 Project Grant to the Institute For Future Intelligence Inc. under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop innovative educational programs that engage community college and high school students in Hawaii to learn the knowledge and skills needed to address the renewable energy challenge. The project, titled "A Solar and Wind Innovation and Technology Collaborative for Hawaii (SWITCH)", aims to cultivate the next generation...

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 University of Central Florida and its partners received a $2,699,594 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development Program (CFDA 81.087). The funding will support the design, development, and demonstration of a reactive particle-based thermochemical energy storage system for concentrating solar-thermal power (TCES-CSP). Key tasks include designing and testing lab-scale...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $5,000,000 project grant under the Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) to The Johns Hopkins University to establish the Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-Free Society (EPICS) Center. The EPICS Center aims to develop tools and methodologies for transitioning power grids to 100% renewable energy sources. Key activities include: Developing high-fidelity and computationally efficient modeling and optimization tools for...

This three-year, $444,124 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers Division supports an interdisciplinary research experience for undergraduate students at the University of California, Irvine related to sustainable energy pathways and decarbonization. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates site will expose 10 students per year, primarily from underrepresented groups, to comprehensive decarbonization research topics through experimental and...

The National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering awarded a $249,987 Project Grant to the President and Board of Trustees of Santa Clara University (SCU) to support U.S. participation in the planning phase of a global research and training center. The planned center, co-led by SCU and Concordia University in Canada, aims to create a platform for collaborative investigation, innovation, and education towards a user-centric energy economy for grid-interactive...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems, under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041), provides $480,172 to develop modeling and experimentation frameworks for studying energy dynamics in modern power systems and power electronics. The University of Texas at Austin, through its parent organization the University of Texas System, will create equivalent circuit models for multidisciplinary systems incorporating...