Planning IUCRC at University of Washington: Energy Information Nexus (EIN)

华盛顿大学规划 IUCCRC：能源信息关系 (EIN)

• 批准号: 1916302
• 负责人: Stuart Adler
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1916302&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; IUCRC; University; Washington; Energy

Data centers represent 2% of all electricity consumption in the United States, with a projected growth rate of 12% per year. Cloud service companies and mechanical/electrical infrastructure suppliers must continuously adapt to satisfy this growing demand, while meeting reliability, cost, and sustainability targets. Rather than focusing on energy and computing as separate problems, the Energy Information Nexus (EIN) consortium supports development of a new generation of data centers that embed power production and storage into the data center itself. On-site power at the rack or pod level offers many strategic advantages, including redundancy and reliability (eliminating the need for backup power), high efficiency, improved load following and supply management, as well as technological pathways to renewable energy based on stored fuels derived from intermittent wind and solar power. EIN will collaborate with industry and government partners to explore the use of fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, DC power networks, and other energy technologies in data centers, and to identify and overcome key process and technology bottlenecks. Through collaborative research, industrial forums, educational initiatives, and public outreach, EIN will advance data center engineering as a leading arena for distributed power and energy storage, and facilitate our nation's transition toward energy sustainability. The Energy Information Nexus (EIN) will fulfill these goals through the following mission objectives: Conducting technoeconomic analyses and system modeling of new approaches to data center energy architecture. Quantitative case studies by EIN will allow members to forecast the directions of technology and business and to better position themselves for growth in this area. Performing pre-competitive research that accelerates development of embedded energy technology relevant to data centers. EIN research will focus on fundamental problems residing at key bottlenecks or junctures among technologies identified by industrial members. Interdisciplinary training of students to foster broad understanding of both computing and energy technology. EIN will bridge the divide between these technology arenas and create a new generation of engineers who understand the opportunities and constraints of both. Facilitating development of supply-chain standards with widespread support among industrial participants. EIN will help members develop new infrastructure and supply-chain standards such that participants in the supply chain share risk and synchronize businesses growth. Industrial and government membership of the EIN will span four principle overlapping business sectors including end users, infrastructure providers, energy technology developers, and utilities to facilitate a broad discussion to achieve the consortium's mission.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

数据中心占美国所有电力消耗的2％，预计每年增长率为12％。云服务公司和机械/电气基础设施供应商必须不断适应以满足不断增长的需求，同时满足可靠性，成本和可持续性目标。 Energy Information Nexus（EIN）联盟并没有将能源和计算作为单独的问题，而是支持将电力生产和存储嵌入数据中心本身的新一代数据中心的开发。机架或POD级别的现场功率提供了许多战略优势，包括冗余和可靠性（消除了备用功率的需求），高效率，提高负载和供应管理以及基于存储的燃料的可再生能源途径源自间歇性风能和太阳能。 EIN将与行业和政府合作伙伴合作，探索数据中心中燃料电池，电池，超级电容器，DC电源网络以及其他能源技术的使用，并识别和克服关键过程和技术瓶颈。通过协作研究，工业论坛，教育计划和公共宣传，EIN将推动数据中心工程作为分布式电力和能源存储的领先舞台，并促进我们国家向能源可持续性的过渡。能源信息Nexus（EIN）将通过以下任务目标实现这些目标：对数据中心能量架构的新方法进行技术经济分析和系统建模。 EIN的定量案例研究将允许成员预测技术和业务的方向，并更好地定位这一领域的增长。进行竞争性研究，以加速与数据中心相关的嵌入能量技术的发展。 EIN研究将集中于在工业成员确定的技术中居住在关键瓶颈或关键处的基本问题。对学生的跨学科培训，以增进对计算和能源技术的广泛理解。 EIN将弥合这些技术领域之间的鸿沟，并创建新一代的工程师，他们了解两者的机会和约束。在工业参与者中促进供应链标准的发展，并得到广泛的支持。 EIN将帮助会员建立新的基础设施和供应链标准，从而使供应链中的参与者共享风险并同步业务增长。 EIN的工业和政府会员资格将跨越四个主要的业务部门，包括最终用户，基础设施提供商，能源技术开发商和公用事业，以促进广泛的讨论以实现财团的使命。这一奖项反映了NSF的法规任务，并被认为值得一提通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持。