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

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.

该 NSF 区域创新引擎发展奖旨在建立一个创新生态系统，通过西弗吉尼亚州和宾夕法尼亚州西南部 (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，满足对可靠脱碳能源的需求。未来十年，电网基础设施抵御自然和非自然威胁的能力只会增强。弹性能源技术和基础设施 (RETI) 联盟结合了三所 R1 大学（西弗吉尼亚大学、匹兹堡大学和卡内基大学）的研究力量。梅隆大学）以及许多地区性非营利组织、行业利益相关者和政府合作伙伴将重点关注适合地区的能源弹性和安全技术。同时，RETI 将确定与新兴能源技术相一致的劳动力发展途径。能源正义是 RETI 使命的核心，因此 RETI 的多元化委员会将把多样性、包容性和公平性放在首位，以确保对拟议技术的潜力进行审查。对区域社区的影响和利益， RETI 将与社区领袖合作制定劳动力计划，确保区域经济增长可获得且有意义的机会，为具有区域影响力的创新引擎奠定基础，该引擎将生产符合市场的技术，以满足国家未来的能源需求。能源弹性和安全方面的创新非常复杂，它将需要进步的技术领域与监管和资本密集型的​​财务障碍结合在一起，但推进新能源技术对于未来的国家安全和全球健康至关重要。历史悠久的能源生产商，使其成为RETI 联盟将确定 RETI 合作伙伴可以发挥影响力并发展既定工业合作伙伴、区域劳动力合作伙伴和国家网络的最紧迫和相关的技术领域。和地方政府支持能源弹性和安全的区域创新引擎，通过直接参与倡导能源正义的核心使命，确保 RETI 的努力与区域弱势社区保持一致。 RETI 将为振兴能源奠定必要的基础。 WV-swPA 是一个全面的能源弹性创新引擎，推动了基于使用的技术的开发和全球相关能源解决方案的部署。该开发奖将使 RETI 能够参与区域协作规划流程，以准备实现这些目标的未来引擎。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。