Project Grant N629092212018

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...

This $141,449,560.50 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (under CFDA 81.253 - Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications) aims to build and start operations at a new manufacturing facility for linear generators (LGENs), an advanced energy technology that can supply clean energy for large-scale commercial, industrial, and grid operations. The primary objective is to accelerate the production and commercialization of this clean...

This $409,927 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of novel algorithmic solutions to optimize the scheduling of distributed energy resources (DERs) in power distribution grids. The key objectives are to: 1) reduce data communication requirements for grid operators to orchestrate DERs by strategically identifying critical data streams; 2) leverage machine learning tools to transform distilled data for...

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) is for $3,872,767 and aims to develop, integrate, and demonstrate a stochastic, decentralized AC unit commitment and optimal power flow system that can support secure operation of bulk electricity grids with high penetrations of inverter-based resources. The key objectives are to: 1) develop...

This $98,662,016 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program supports Switched Source LLC in deploying medium-voltage power flow controllers to a large utility. The project, known as the "CARPE DIEM" initiative, aims to integrate this distribution automation technology into the utility's planning and operational practices to enhance system performance, reliability, and load serving capacity. Key...

Pacific Science & Engineering Group, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop an externalized decision-making user interface for training smart grid operators. The interface aims to help operators of the nation's energy infrastructure learn to manage complex systems. In keeping with the Office of Science's mission to transform understanding of nature and...

Enerlite Consulting, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop an Automated Calibration Tool for Building Energy Models. The tool will help streamline the process of calibrating building energy simulation programs to actual energy use data, allowing for more accurate energy modeling of existing buildings. The Office of Science's financial assistance program supports...

This $265,965 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) supports research and development by Nearstar Fusion Inc., a for-profit organization, on a new approach to fusion energy for grid-based electric power. The project aims to perform computational modeling, analytical calculations, and design work to de-risk and establish a point design for a "hypervelocity gradient field fusion" concept. This...

This $452,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research on improving the interconnection process for renewable energy generators to connect to the U.S. power grid. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will analyze how the current interconnection queue design acts as a bottleneck to renewable deployment and quantify the costs and benefits of potential policy reforms. It will construct new datasets on...

The Cooperative Agreement award DEEE0011369, funded by 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), focuses on advancing methods for integrating renewable energy into power grid planning. The $1,991,463 award supports the "Advanced Methods for Integrating Renewables in Grid Planning (ADMIRE-GRIDPLAN)" project, which aims to enhance existing commercial grid planning...