Global Centers Track 1: U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid

全球中心轨道 1：美国-加拿大气候适应型西部互联电网中心

• 批准号: 2330582
• 负责人: Masood Parvania
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; U.S.; Canada

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Extreme climate events, such as heat waves or wildfires, often disrupt the power grid. These disturbances affect the lives of many and impede enterprise productivity. It is thus critical to modernize the Grid and ensure that it can withstand or recover quickly from the intensifying effects of climate disturbances. Engineering a climate-resilient Grid is, however, challenging. It requires better understanding and forecasting of climate-driven disturbance risks. Grid stability also depends on end-user energy demand. Furthermore, grids in the western U.S. and Canada are interconnected which adds to the complexity and requires international collaboration. The U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid brings together an international team of researchers to assess the risk of extreme event for power grids using state-of-the-art modeling tools. The Center develops new technologies and design adaptation and mitigation solutions to overcome disturbances. The Center leverages multi-faceted partnerships across academia, industry, government, and communities and expertise and resources in both the U.S. and Canada. It engages stakeholders beyond academia to ensure foreseeable applications of the research outcomes. By leveraging cross-border collaboration, it creates knowledge and technologies that can be applied beyond the context of the western U.S. and Canada region, globally. This award also provides support for undergraduate and graduate students at the Universities of Utah and New Mexico and other professionals in California and Nevada, as well as outreach and educational activities to local communities in the western U.S.The Center pursues four major use-inspired research priorities: (a) create customized models for risk quantification and forecasting of regional extreme disturbances to better prepare for potential disruptions to power grids; (b) establish a comprehensive understanding of community needs, capacities, and adaptation processes towards climate-driven extreme disturbances, in order to develop effective climate-resilience strategies; (c) build a federated cyberinfrastructure for collecting, governing, and sharing climate and grid data, in order to facilitate collaboration and information exchange among stakeholders; (d) develop new models for short-term operation and long-term planning of power systems that are informed by the aforementioned data and insights. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative partnership with funding agencies in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, to jointly support use-inspired research addressing global challenges in climate change and clean energy. Partnerships with the Commonwealth Science and Innovation Research Organisation (CSIRO), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) leverage resources to tackle challenges at a larger scale than would be possible for one funding agency alone. This Center is jointly supported by NSF and NSERC.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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Extreme climate events, such as heat waves or wildfires, often disrupt the power grid.这些干扰会影响许多人的生活并阻碍企业生产力。因此，至关重要的是将电网现代化并确保它可以从气候干扰的加剧影响中承受或迅速恢复。但是，工程气候富裕的网格具有挑战性。它需要更好地理解和预测气候驱动的干扰风险。网格稳定性也取决于最终用户的能源需求。此外，美国西部和加拿大的网格相互联系，这增加了复杂性并需要国际合作。美国加拿大气候富裕西部相互联系的网格中心汇集了一个国际研究人员，以评估使用最先进的建模工具来评估电网极端事件的风险。该中心开发了新技术，设计适应和缓解解决方案以克服干扰。该中心利用学术界，工业，政府和社区以及美国和加拿大的专业知识和资源的多方面伙伴关系。它吸引了学术界以外的利益相关者，以确保可预见的研究成果应用。通过利用跨境协作，它创建了知识和技术，可以在全球西部和加拿大地区的环境之外应用。该奖项还为犹他大学，新墨西哥州大学以及加利福尼亚和内华达州的其他专业人士以及对西部美国西部地区的当地社区的外展和教育活动提供了支持，并为潜在的风险量化和预测提供了极端的高度扰动，以使潜在的破坏; （b）为了制定有效的气候弥补策略，对社区需求，能力和适应过程建立了全面的理解； （c）建立一个联合的网络基础设施，用于收集，管理和共享气候和网格数据，以促进利益相关者之间的协作和信息交流； （d）开发新的模型，用于对上述数据和见解告知的电力系统的短期计划和长期计划。该奖项由与澳大利亚，加拿大和英国的资助机构的创新合作伙伴关系全球中心计划资助，共同支持以使用启发的研究来解决气候变化和清洁能源方面的全球挑战。与英联邦科学与创新研究组织（CSIRO），加拿大自然科学和工程研究委员会（NSERC），加拿大社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC）（SSHRC）和英国研究与创新（UKRI）与一家资助机构的合作伙伴关系，加拿大的社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC）和英国研究与创新（UKRI）利用资源利用与单独使用一家资助机构可能更大的规模来应对挑战。该中心由NSF和NSERC共同支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。