NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing energy and resilience technologies in the Permian Basin (TX, NM)

NSF 发动机开发奖：推进二叠纪盆地（德克萨斯州、新墨西哥州）的能源和弹性技术

• 批准号: 2303637
• 负责人: Brian Korgel
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2303637&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on ensuring that the communities of the Permian Basin participate in and equitably accrue the economic and environmental benefits of the global transition to a low-carbon energy system. The Permian Basin Energy Technology and Resilience Alliance (PETRA) will leverage the region's considerable energy infrastructure and expertise - developed through decades of producing energy on a globally significant scale - to support research, development, and commercialization of advanced energy solutions and technologies. A 66-county region encompassing eastern New Mexico and West Texas, the Permian Basin includes urban centers (e.g., Midland, the region's "oil capital") and vast rural territory. Its economy is uniquely and deeply tied to the fossil fuel industry. Yet, while sharing many economic and environmental challenges and opportunities, its communities are quite diverse, each with distinct cultural values and specialties in energy production. PETRA's broad coalition of partners, based in and around the region, is focused on the success and service of these communities. The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation's local ties and outreach will ensure that the engine's activities are community-driven. New Mexico State University, New Mexico Tech, Midland College, Odessa College, Texas A&M University, University of Texas (UT) of the Permian Basin, UT El Paso, and UT Austin will share their considerable resources in use-inspired research and educational programming, as will the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The Midland and Odessa development corporations and local colleges will support workforce development. Industry partners, including GTI Energy, will support translating innovation to practice. The envisioned PETRA project will support the development of a regional clean-energy technology and applied-research framework to engage and inform other oil- and gas-dependent regions. To do so, it will develop and demonstrate advanced energy technologies at scale; improve systemic environmental performance; share the benefits of the energy economy with local communities through place-based economic development approaches and fit-for-purpose education; and implement best practices in community-engaged, use-inspired research to grow the region's innovation ecosystem from its current Development Phase into a Nascent Phase of a full NSF Engine. In preparation for a compelling full NSF Engines proposal, this development award will support PETRA's continued efforts to build a platform for collaboration among diverse stakeholders and engage the resources of diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems offered by the PETRA partners to ensure that community and economic development are equitable, scalable, and central to the future of energy.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.

该区域创新发动机开发奖的重点是确保二叠纪盆地的社区参与并公平地累积了全球过渡到低碳能源系统的经济和环境利益。二叠纪盆地能源技术和弹性联盟（PETRA）将利用该地区可观的能源基础设施和专业知识 - 通过数十年来在全球范围内生产能源而开发的，以支持研究，开发和商业化高级能源解决方案和技术的商业化。二叠纪盆地一个涵盖了新墨西哥州东部和西德克萨斯州的66个县地区，包括城市中心（例如米德兰，该地区的“石油资本”）和广阔的农村地区。它的经济与化石燃料行业有着独特而息息相关。然而，在分享许多经济和环境挑战和机遇的同时，其社区却相当多，每个社区都有独特的文化价值和能源生产的专业。佩特拉（Petra）在该地区及其周围的帕特拉（Petra）广泛的合作伙伴联盟着重于这些社区的成功和服务。辛西娅（Cynthia）和乔治·米切尔基金会（George Mitchell Foundation）的当地关系和外展将确保引擎的活动是由社区驱动的。新墨西哥州立大学，新墨西哥理工学院，米德兰学院，敖德萨学院，得克萨斯州农工大学，二叠纪盆地，UT El Paso的得克萨斯大学（UT），UT El Paso和UT Austin将分享其在使用启发的研究和教育计划中的大量资源，国家可再生能源实验室和桑迪亚国家实验室也将进行。米德兰和敖德萨发展公司和当地大学将支持劳动力发展。包括GTI Energy在内的行业合作伙伴将支持将创新转化为实践。 设想的佩特拉项目将支持开发区域清洁能源技术和应用研究框架，以吸引和告知其他依赖石油和天然气的地区。为此，它将大规模发展和展示先进的能源技术；改善系统性环境绩效；通过基于地方的经济发展方法和适合用途的教育，与当地社区分享能源经济的好处；并在社区参与，使用的研究中实施最佳实践，以将该地区的创新生态系统从目前的开发阶段发展为完整的NSF引擎的新生阶段。为了为一项引人注目的NSF发动机提案做准备，该开发奖将支持佩特拉（Petra）继续努力建立一个在各种利益相关者之间合作的平台，并参与Petra Partners提供的各种企业家生态系统的资源，以确保社区和经济发展是公平的，公平的，公平的，公平的，是公平的，该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估的，这是可扩展的，也是能源未来的核心。