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The University of Illinois at Chicago was awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a resilient cyber-physical security framework for distributed energy resources. Over a three-year period ending September 2025, the University will partner with Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Sandia National Laboratories to conduct research in four integrated areas: developing a blockchain...

This NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) grant awarded to Trustees of Boston University for $258,677 provides funding to develop real-time optimization and control approaches for distributed energy resources (DERs) in power grids. The research aims to overcome barriers to large-scale DER integration, including degraded power quality/reliability and the inability of existing optimization approaches to match power system dynamics. The project will create feedback-based online algorithms to...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $399,902 project grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to support its "Alternating Direction Decomposition with Strong Bounding and Convexification (ADD-SBC) for Solving Security Constrained AC Unit Commitment Problems" initiative under ARPA-E's Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The grant period runs from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2023. Under this...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,997 Project Grant to Via Science Inc. under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to research zero-knowledge proofs to verify distributed energy resource (DER) production. The project aims to leverage Via Science's experience with blockchain and data analytics to facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources onto the electric grid through real-time, anonymous data verification and privacy-protected...

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...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Operant Networks, Inc. received a $4.81M Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) program (CFDA 81.008) awarded on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2028. The award funds the development and demonstration of a crypto-agile and adaptable data-centric zero trust architecture (DZTA) designed to enhance cybersecurity for operational technology (OT)...

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 Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $3,906,126.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) under the Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response (CESER) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.008). The objectives of this project are to integrate innovative, scalable secure authentication techniques, blended with key establishment and secure communication mechanisms for the smart grid. The prime awardee is...

This $409,927 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop novel algorithmic solutions to optimize the scheduling of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution grids. The project, awarded to Purdue University, will address challenges in real-time DER orchestration by identifying critical data streams and integrating machine learning models into grid scheduling. Key technical objectives include incorporating feature...

MAPLE ROOT Cooperative Agreement Summary Vermont Transco LLC received a $1.87 million Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122) to develop and demonstrate the Model-Based Adaptive Platform Environment for Real-Time Dynamic Operating Envelopes and Operator Trust (MAPLE ROOT). The three-year project, initiated October 1, 2025, and concluding September 30,...