Project Grant DESC0018886

This $295,149 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to address protection challenges arising from the increasing penetration of renewable energy in modern electric grids. The University of Denver is the prime recipient, and the project will run from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project will explore novel model-driven and data-driven solutions to ensure dependable fault detection and secure relay operation for power grids...

This $375,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) funds research at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station to develop a Strategic Holistic Framework for Intrusion Prevention using Multi-modal Data in Power Systems (SHIELD). The three-year project aims to strengthen national power grid protection against cyber-physical attacks through novel intrusion detection and prevention methods. Researchers will fuse cyber and physical power system...

This National Science Foundation award of $102,289 provides funding for a one-year project grant to The University of New Mexico titled "MRI: Acquisition of a Network Emulator for Cyber Security Research of Electric Power Grids." The goal is to purchase a co-simulation tool to model cyber-physical systems and conduct cybersecurity research on critical infrastructure like power grids. This tool will enable researchers to study cyberattacks in a digital twin platform without risking an...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $199,542 to Purdue University to develop reaction mechanisms and experimental validation frameworks to mitigate the impact of sophisticated cyber attacks on smart power distribution systems. The key objectives are to: 1) investigate vulnerabilities of load tap changers (LTCs) in power distribution systems to cyber attacks targeting voltage collapse; 2) design primary and backup reaction...

This $36,034,716 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund a partnership between the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a host transmission utility. The project aims to install an Automatic Power Factor Controller (APFC) device, the SmartValve, at an interregional grid tie to reduce tap changes and increase the control range of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST) across a regional...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) provides $5,583,698.00 to the Electric Power Research Institute Inc. (EPRI) to develop an integrated, automated system to identify third-party and potential zero-day vulnerabilities, verify their exploitability dynamically, and create a feedback loop for rapid enhancement of static analysis capabilities. The objectives of this 3-year...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) awarded a $4,239,459 Cooperative Agreement to GE Vernova Operations LLC, operating as the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center, to develop a secure quantum power protection coordination technique for the power grid. The project will utilize quantum entanglement to indicate whether relays should respond to trip messages within the power grid's configured coordination, enhancing the...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $145,871 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) to develop novel data-driven control methods for the safe and secure operation of grid-edge resources (GERs) in modern power systems. The research aims to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid proliferation of distributed energy resources, such as renewable generators, smart...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrative Activities (CFDA 47.083) project grant for $762,500 awarded to Michigan State University aims to enhance the stability, resilience, and cybersecurity of the U.S. power grid. The project will acquire a real-time simulator to enable collaborative, multidisciplinary research on power grid dynamics, performance, and the development, testing, and validation of new solutions. Key focus areas include generating innovative solutions to enhance grid...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (ENG), funded under the CFDA 47.041 program, provides $299,917 to Wayne State University to develop methodologies for synthesizing cyber-secure and resilient control logic for networked discrete-event systems subject to cyber attacks. The principal objective is to enhance the reliability and performance of advanced control systems that embed complex control logic by providing formal methodologies to...