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.

该区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是确保二叠纪盆地社区参与并公平地获得全球向低碳能源系统转型的经济和环境效益。二叠纪盆地能源技术和弹性联盟（PETRA）将利用该地区丰富的能源基础设施和专业知识（数十年来在全球范围内大规模生产能源而积累的经验）来支持先进能源解决方案和技术的研究、开发和商业化。二叠纪盆地是一个由 66 个县组成的地区，涵盖新墨西哥州东部和德克萨斯州西部，包括城市中心（例如该地区的“石油之都”米德兰）和广阔的农村地区。它的经济与化石燃料行业有着独特且紧密的联系。然而，虽然面临着许多经济和环境挑战和机遇，但其社区却相当多样化，每个社区都有独特的文化价值观和能源生产方面的专业知识。 PETRA 在该地区及其周边地区拥有广泛的合作伙伴联盟，致力于这些社区的成功和服务。辛西娅和乔治·米切尔基金会的当地联系和外展将确保该引擎的活动是社区驱动的。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、德克萨斯 A&M 大学、德克萨斯大学 (UT) 二叠纪盆地分校、UT 埃尔帕索分校和 UT 奥斯汀分校将分享其在使用启发型研究和教育规划方面的大量资源以及国家可再生能源实验室和桑迪亚国家实验室。米德兰和敖德萨发展公司和当地大学将支持劳动力发展。 GTI Energy 等行业合作伙伴将支持将创新转化为实践。 设想的 PETRA 项目将支持区域清洁能源技术和应用研究框架的开发，以吸引其他依赖石油和天然气的地区并为其提供信息。为此，它将大规模开发和展示先进的能源技术；提高系统环境绩效；通过因地制宜的经济发展方法和针对性的教育，与当地社区分享能源经济的好处；并在社区参与、受使用启发的研究中实施最佳实践，将该地区的创新生态系统从当前的开发阶段发展到完整的 NSF 引擎的新生阶段。为了准备令人信服的完整 NSF Engines 提案，该开发奖将支持 PETRA 继续努力建立一个不同利益相关者之间的协作平台，并利用 PETRA 合作伙伴提供的多元化创业生态系统的资源，以确保社区和经济发展的公平性，可扩展，对能源的未来至关重要。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。