NSF Engines Development Award: Developing an use-inspired decarbonization and grid resilient energy ecosystem (WV, PA)

NSF 发动机开发奖：开发以使用为灵感的脱碳和电网弹性能源生态系统（西弗吉尼亚州、宾夕法尼亚州）

• 批准号: 2315455
• 负责人: Erienne Olesh
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2315455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Developing; NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Developing

This NSF Regional Innovation Engines Development Award seeks to build an innovation ecosystem that offers solutions to energy resilience, decarbonization and energy security via regional partnerships in the West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania (WV-swPA) region. The need for reliable decarbonized energy sources and for the resilience of grid infrastructure from natural and non-natural threats will only increase over the next decade. The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure (RETI) consortium combines the research power of three R1 universities (West Virginia University, University of Pittsburgh, and Carnegie Mellon University), along with a host of regional non-profits, industry stakeholders, and government partners. RETI will focus on regionally appropriate technologies for energy resilience and security. In parallel, RETI will identify pathways for workforce development that align with emerging energy technologies and policy development that accelerates the adoption of those technologies. Energy justice is central to RETI’s mission and as such, diversity, inclusion, and equity will be forefront in RETI efforts. RETI’s diversity committee will ensure that proposed technologies are reviewed for their potential impact and benefit to regional communities, and workforce plans will be developed in partnership with community leaders, ensuring accessible and meaningful opportunities for regional economic growth. Through these efforts, RETI will lay the groundwork for a regionally impactful innovation engine that produces market aligned technologies ready to meet the nation’s future energy demands. Innovation in energy resilience and security is complex. It combines technical areas in need of advancement with regulatory, and capital-intensive financial hurdles. Yet advancing new energy technologies is critical to future national security and global health. The WV-swPA region has been a historic energy producer, making it an ideal location to imagine, develop and deploy the next generation of energy technology. The RETI consortium will identify the most pressing and relevant technical areas in which RETI partners can make an impact and grow a network of vested industrial partners, regional workforce partners and state and local government to support a regional innovation engine for energy resilience and security. Diversity initiatives will ensure RETI efforts align to regionally disadvantaged communities through direct engagement advocating a central mission of energy justice. Collectively, RETI will build the foundations necessary to revitalize WV-swPA in a comprehensive energy resilience innovation engine, driving development of use-inspired technologies and deployment of globally relevant energy solutions. This Development Award will enable RETI to engage in a regional, collaborative planning process to prepare a future Engine that addresses these goals.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.

NSF区域创新发动机开发奖旨在建立一个创新生态系统，通过西弗吉尼亚州和西南宾夕法尼亚州（WV-SWPA）地区的区域合作伙伴关系，为能源弹性，脱碳和能源​​安全提供解决方案。在未来十年中，对可靠的脱碳能源以及对自然和非天然威胁的电网基础设施的弹性的需求只会增加。弹性的能源技术和基础设施（RETI）财团结合了三所R1大学（西弗吉尼亚大学，匹兹堡大学和卡内基·梅隆大学）的研究能力，以及许多区域非营利组织，行业利益相关者和政府伙伴。 RETI将专注于适当的能源弹性和安全性技术。同时，RETI将确定与新兴能源技术和政策制定相吻合的劳动力发展途径，从而加速采用这些技术。能源正义是Reti使命的核心，因此，多样性，包容性和公平性将在Eri努力中成为最前沿。 Reti的多样性委员会将确保对拟议的技术进行对区域社区的潜在影响和利益进行审查，并将与社区领导人合作制定劳动力计划，以确保可访问区域经济增长的可及且有意义的机会。通过这些努力，Reti将为具有区域性影响力的创新引擎奠定基础，该引擎可生产出准备满足国家未来能源需求的市场对齐技术。能源弹性和安全性的创新很复杂。它将需要进步的技术领域与监管和资本密集型金融障碍相结合。然而，推进新的能源技术对于未来的国家安全和全球健康至关重要。 WV-SWPA地区一直是历史悠久的能源生产国，使其成为想象，开发和部署下一代能源技术的理想场所。 Reti Consortium将确定Reti Partners可以产生影响并发展既得工业合作伙伴，区域劳动力合作伙伴以及州和地方政府网络的最紧迫和相关的技术领域，以支持能源弹性和安全的区域创新引擎。多样性倡议将通过直接参与倡导能源正义的核心使命来确保与地区处境不利的社区保持一致。总体而言，Reti将建立在全面的能源弹性创新引擎中振兴WV-SWPA所必需的基础，推动使用使用启发的技术并部署全球相关能源解决方案。该开发奖将使Reti能够参与区域协作计划过程，以准备解决这些目标的未来引擎。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。