Global Centers Track 2: Equitable and User-Centric Energy Market for Resilient Grid-interactive Communities

全球中心轨道 2：面向弹性电网互动社区的公平且以用户为中心的能源市场

• 批准号: 2330504
• 负责人: Yuhong Liu
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Santa Clara University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330504&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; Equitable; User

Distributed energy resources (DERs) have tremendous potential to transform operators and users toward more clean and resilient energy supplies by harvesting and distributing various renewable energies tailored to the profiles of distinctive local communities. An equitable and user-centric market is essential in this transformation. New designs, mechanisms, and technologies are needed to establish a DER-based, self-sustaining clean energy ecosystem at the edge of power grids for a diverse spectrum of communities and stakeholders. This Global Centers Design award to Santa Clara University (SCU) supports U.S. participation in the planning phase of a center to tackle these challenges. The planned Center, co-led by SCU in the US and Concordia University (CU) in Canada, aims to create a global research and training platform with a critical mass for collaborative investigation, innovation, and education toward a user-centric energy economy for grid-interactive communities. The goal is to advance scientific knowledge and engineering solutions for more equitable, affordable, flexible, and reliable access to clean energy supplies for a broader range of local communities. It will investigate enabling mechanisms and technologies to increase community acceptance, stakeholder benefits, and provider/consumer interaction of clean energy in a global context. The Center will follow its use-inspired nature to design research and education activities that address the practical challenges of key stakeholders in grid-interactive communities. The education and outreach components will prepare the next-generation workforce for academia, industry, and communities. During the Design Phase, the Center will focus on two critical components: grid-interactive communities and user-centric markets. It will foster conversations and collaborations among diversified research experts and community users. Its projects will investigate: i) Critical applications and use cases from key stakeholders that call for use-inspired, multi-disciplinary, and international collaborations; ii) New theories, frameworks, and models for grid-interactive communities, user profiling, device-driven energy management, machina economicus, and energy fairness; iii) New architectures for clean energy markets, community-based energy interactions, and scalable co-simulation, and iv) Innovative grid edge technologies for efficient, flexible, trustworthy, and resilient distributed energy management against disturbances, adversaries, and disasters for grid-interactive communities. The Center will release its co-simulation tools, testing cases, and datasets to grow the research community and the ecosystem. The international collaborations between the two leading institutions will leverage the distinctive geographical, technological, regulatory, and cultural context in their local communities to provide enriched and diversified opportunities for research and education activities benefiting the general public in the global context. Special programs will be offered to minority researchers, professionals, students, and other users for diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility among multi-sector stakeholders in the ecosystem. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative program that supports use-inspired research addressing global challenges related to climate change and/or clean energy. Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.  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.

分布式能源资源（DER）具有巨大的潜力，可以通过收获和分发针对独特当地社区概况量身定制的各种可再生能源供应来使运营商和用户转变为更加干净和弹性的能源供应。在这种转变中，公平且以用户为中心的市场至关重要。需要新的设计，机制和技术来为潜水者和利益相关者提供电网边缘建立一个基于基于自我的自我维护的清洁能源生态系统。圣塔克拉拉大学（SCU）这项全球设计奖支持美国参加中心的计划阶段，以应对这些挑战。计划中的中心由SCU在美国和加拿大的Concordia University（CU）共同领导，旨在建立一个全球研究和培训平台，其中具有关键的群众，以进行协作投资，创新和教育，以实现以用户为中心的网格相互作用社区。目的是推进科学知识和工程解决方案，以提供更公平，负担得起，灵活和可靠的可靠访问清洁能源供应，以供更广泛的当地社区提供清洁能源。它将调查使机制和技术在全球背景下增加社区接受，利益相关者的利益以及清洁能源的提供者/消费者的互动。该中心将遵循其使用启发的性质设计研究和教育活动，以应对网格相互作用社区中主要利益相关者的实际挑战。教育和外展成分将为学术界，工业和社区的下一代劳动力做好准备。在设计阶段，该中心将重点关注两个关键组成部分：网格互动社区和以用户为中心的市场。它将促进多元化的研究专家和社区用户之间的对话和合作。 IT项目将调查：i）关键的申请和用例，来自主要利益相关者，呼吁采用使用启发，多学科和国际合作； ii）用于网格相互作用社区，用户分析，设备驱动的能源管理，Machina Economicus和能源公平的新理论，框架和模型； iii）用于清洁能源市场的新体系结构，基于社区的能源互动以及可扩展的共同模拟以及IV）创新的网格边缘技术，可为灾难，对手和灾难，用于网格交互社区的高效，灵活，可信赖和依赖的分布式能源管理。该中心将发布其共模拟工具，测试案例和数据集，以增强研究界和生态系统。两个领先机构之间的国际合作将利用其当地社区中独特的地理，技术，监管和文化背景，为在全球环境中受益于公众的研究和教育活动提供丰富和多元化的机会。特殊计划将提供给少数派研究人员，专业人士，学生和其他用户，以了解生态系统中多部门利益相关者之间的多样性，公平，包容性和可访问性。该奖项由Global Centers计划提供资金，该计划是一项创新计划，该计划支持以使用与气候变化和/或清洁能源相关的全球挑战的使用启发的研究。 Track 2 design awards support U.S.-based Researchers to bring together international teams to develop research questions and partnerships, conduct landscape analyses, synthesize data, and/or build multi-stakeholder networks to advance their use-inspired research at larger scale in the future.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed precious of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.