Project Grant DESC0015094

This $1,430,102 Cooperative Agreement, awarded 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) program, aims to develop and demonstrate advanced data analytics for improved grid monitoring, operation, and control. The project will utilize data from Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and next-generation grid-edge computing...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (CFDA 81.122 - Electricity Research, Development and Analysis) provides $704,588 to North Dakota State University to develop and demonstrate a graph-based sensor data analytics tool for grid stability monitoring and control. The goal is to leverage innovative techniques to enable grid operators to monitor and manage inverter-driven oscillation (IDO) issues in real-time,...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office awarded a $116 million Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Commonwealth Edison Co. (ComEd) to implement a data fusion-empowered, interoperable control framework. This initiative aims to modernize power grid planning and operations, while maximizing benefits across disadvantaged communities. The project will deploy a selection of grid-edge technologies for field demonstration and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis (CFDA 81.122) program provides $1,400,000.00 in funding to New York University to develop, test, and field-demonstrate a comprehensive tool suite for making the secondary electric distribution grid visible to system operators and planners. The project aims to leverage synergistic data analytics based on advanced metering...

This $220,000 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support research at Kansas State University from July 2022 to June 2024 to leverage smart meter data for enhanced situational awareness of power distribution systems. The university will investigate fundamental approaches to effectively integrate advanced metering infrastructure data to increase operational awareness of distribution grids. Researchers will focus on integrating machine...

This $142,409,585 federal Project Grant awarded by the Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) will deploy innovative digital technology solutions to maximize the value of third-party distributed energy resources (DER) at the distribution level. The key objectives are to: (i) improve distribution grid visibility and autonomous controls for grid operators, (ii) aggregate and integrate DER and other grid-edge devices to provide system...

This NSF CAREER project award from the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems aims to advance the autonomy of power grids by developing novel strategies to enhance the decision speed, resilience, and sustainability awareness of distributed grid management models and algorithms. The $393,890 project, running from March 2025 to February 2030, will leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to: Create neural approximators that rapidly solve complex optimization problems...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4.62M Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Quanta Technology, LLC. The goal of this 18-month project, titled "Grid Operator Analytics and Assessment Tools for Inverter-Based Resources Dominated Grid (GOAAT-IBR)", is to develop a cloud-based platform and suite of analytical tools to improve situational awareness and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $6,753,489 to Gridbeyond LLC to implement an AI-driven software platform to forecast, optimize, and control utility-scale inverter-based renewable energy resources. The project will integrate Gridbeyond's Renewable Controls Platform (RCP) software into the operations and dispatch systems of...

This $199,339 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the California State University San Marcos Corp (CSUSM) will develop novel AI and machine learning models for supervisory control of wind farm connections to the electric grid for stability monitoring. The project aims to create innovative AI/ML models that can directly analyze raw power data to enable accurate fault prediction and detection, which...