EFRI-RESIN: The Interface of Infrastructures, Markets, and Natural Cycles - Innovative Modeling and Control Mechanisms for Managing Electricity, Water and Air Quality in Texas

项目负责人姓名：David AllenInstitution：德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校提案号：0835414该奖项是研究与创新新兴领域（NSF 07-579）招标的结果，子主题为弹性和可持续基础设施（树脂）。该项目的目标是证明，通过将空气质量和水资源可用性评估纳入发电调度决策，可以使发电和供水基础设施的运行更具弹性和可持续性。该项目建议：1)创建综合基础设施/市场/自然周期模型，使用德克萨斯州作为数据来源和地理和时间试验台。2)评估综合系统对一系列挑战或“冲击”的弹性，以测试弹性和可持续性3)评估将空气质量和水可用性评估纳入发电系统运行的替代技术，经济和体制机制；这些变化将包括对现有的批发电力市场、空气质量监管、排放市场以及水市场的潜在发展的改变。这项研究的结果将为提高电力和水基础设施的恢复能力提供新的方法。这项工作的一项主要成果将是通过将先进的气象信息与发电、空气质量管理和水资源供应方面现有和潜在的市场发展相结合，为下一代管理发电对排放和用水影响的框架提供原则证明。这一框架也将有助于理解综合系统中扰动产生的一系列更广泛的影响。通过展示下一代空气质量、用水和发电综合管理框架，该项目将为案例研究地区的决策者提供备选方案。此外，该项目产生的信息将用于开发教育模块，这些模块将用于UT和MIT的能源系统，空气污染控制和环境法规与政策课程。此外，项目人员将参加科学和政策会议/研讨会，在这些会议/研讨会上将展示项目成果，包括麻省理工学院的“奈特科学新闻研究员”等论坛，记者将在麻省理工学院呆一年。最后，该项目将用于继续德克萨斯大学对女学生的推广，特别是通过吸引德克萨斯大学女性工程项目（WEP）的参与者作为项目实习生。

PI name: David AllenInstitution: University of Texas at AustinProposal Number: 0835414This award is an outcome of the competition as part of the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (NSF 07-579) solicitation under the subtopic Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructures (RESIN). The goal of this project is to demonstrate that the operation of electricity generation and water supply infrastructures can be made more resilient and sustainable by integrating assessments of air quality and water availability into electricity generation dispatching decisions. The project proposes to:1) Create integrated infrastructure/markets/natural cycles models using the state of Texas as a source of data and as a geographic and temporal test-bed.2) Evaluate the resiliency of the integrated system to a series of challenges or "shocks" to test resiliency and sustainability3) Assess alternative technical, economic and institutional mechanisms for incorporating assessments of air quality and water availability into the operation of electricity generating systems; these alterations will include changes to existing wholesale power markets, air quality regulation, and emissions markets, as well as potential developments in water markets.The results of this research would provide new methods for improving the resilience of electrical and water infrastructures. A major outcome of the work will be the proof of principle for a next-generation framework for managing the impact on emissions and water use of electricity generation by integrating advanced meteorological information with existing and potential market developments in electricity generation, air quality management, and water availability. This framework will also help in understanding a broader set of impacts from perturbations in the integrated system.By demonstrating a next-generation framework for the integrated management of air quality, water use, and electricity generation, the project will provide alternatives for policy-makers in the case study region. In addition, the information generated by this project will be used to develop educational modules that will be used in classes in energy systems, air pollution control and environmental regulation and policy at both UT and MIT. Further, project personnel will participate in scientific and policy meetings/workshops at which project results will be presented, including forums such as MIT's "Knight Science Journalism Fellows", in which journalists spend a year at MIT. Finally, the project will be used to continue the University of Texas' outreach to female students, specifically by engaging participants in UT's Women in Engineering Program (WEP) as project interns.