Project Grant DESC0018819

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 collaborative research project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $240,000 in funding to UC Riverside over a three-year period (July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2028). The project develops advanced topological and computational modeling frameworks to improve the integration and control of ultra-high-dimensional distributed energy resources within modern power transmission...

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to integrate federated learning with power systems to better predict electricity consumption and lower the cost of electricity generation. The project will develop machine learning methods, specifically recurrent neural networks, to forecast day-ahead electricity consumption using distributed data from smart meters while preserving consumer privacy. Key scientific...

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...

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...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Teraspatial Inc., a for-profit organization, a $199,775 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on July 10, 2023, will support the development of a hierarchical, secure, wireless communications network architecture for the smart electric grid, with applications in digital twin technology. The project will be completed by July 9, 2024 and will deliver key products or services...

This $154,068 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the development of auction mechanism models to reduce energy costs and contribute to power grid stability in high-performance computing systems. Specifically, the University of Toledo will use the award to create machine learning models for predicting power usage and performance of parallel applications, develop an auction mechanism model incorporating renewable...

This three-year, $290,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at The Pennsylvania State University to develop new mathematical methods, computer models, and algorithms for electric grid operational planning under non-Gaussian uncertainties in renewable energy forecasts. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the research directly addresses challenges in integrating intermittent renewable resources like wind and solar power into...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $267,323 Project Grant to the CAL Poly Corporation at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. The grant, funded through the NSF Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041), supports the development of new computing methods to improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of the electric power grid. Specifically, the project team will research electronic analog and hybrid computing approaches to address challenges...

This three-year, $144,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a cyber resilient virtual power plant network for growing power demands. Specifically, the award supports designing and implementing a 5G-enabled smart artificial intelligence-based microinverter for a pole-mounted solar power system with energy storage. This virtual power plant will be connected to low-voltage distribution networks and...