Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Comprehensive Energy Storage Solutions in Electrified Transportation

工程研究中心规划奖助金竞赛是作为ERC计划的试点征集活动进行的。计划拨款并不是整个ERC竞赛的一部分，而是旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划汇聚的、中心规模的工程研究。这笔规划拨款将为新的NSF工程研究中心CESSET：电气化交通中的综合能量存储解决方案奠定基础，其拟议的使命是满足我们社会对可持续和可再生能源移动性和可获得性的日益增长的需求。鉴于以化石燃料为基础的交通运输是世界范围内的一个主要污染源，存在着巨大的机会，可以通过在动态控制的分布式能源的辅助下，利用可再生的、脱碳的能源来实现交通运输的电气化，从而改变地球的气候轨迹。预计CESSET旨在带来的创新将扭转人类造成的气候变化和空气污染的严峻预测。除了有益于健康，这种转变还将通过大幅减少石油进口和重新配置国内制造业，产生积极的经济影响。这种新的交通运输未来需要研究先进的能量储存。尽管汽车工业已经开始了汽车电气化的趋势，并为能源储存提供了大量资金，但进展缓慢且各自为政。为了准备一项新的中心规模的研究工作，需要进行一项严格的范围研究，以揭示协同效应，确定最有影响力的研究方向，制定促进学科间整合的战略，并确保专业知识和合作机构的正确组合。在这项计划拨款中，CESSET将形成实现其愿景的战略，特别强调发展多学科课程和培训计划，并影响国家和国际政策和市场趋势。在拟议的规划拨款的背景下，将通过与利益相关者的一系列会议和研讨会来追求大学研究之外的影响。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.This planning grant will lay the groundwork for a new NSF Engineering Research Center, CESSET: Comprehensive Energy Storage Solutions in Electrified Transportation with the proposed mission to match the accelerating needs of our society for mobility and accessibility with sustainable and renewable energy. Given that fossil-fuel-based transportation is a major source of pollution worldwide, immense opportunities exist to deflect the planet's climate trajectory by electrifying transportation with renewable, decarbonized power sources assisted by dynamically controlled distributed energy resources. It is expected that the innovation CESSET is aiming to bring will reverse the stark projections of human-created climate change and air-pollution. Beyond health benefits, such a transformation will have positive economic impact by dramatically reducing oil imports and by reconfiguring domestic manufacturing. This new transportation future requires research into advanced energy storage. Although the automotive industry has started the trend towards vehicle electrification and there is significant funding for energy storage, progress has been slow and compartmentalized. In preparation for a new Center-scale research effort, a rigorous scoping study is needed to reveal synergies, identify the most impactful research directions, develop strategies that will foster integration between disciplines, and secure the correct combination of expertise and partner institutions. In this planning grant, CESSET's strategy in achieving its vision will be formed with special emphasis on developing multidisciplinary course and training programs, and influencing national and international policy and market trends. In the context of the proposed planning grant, impact beyond university research will be pursued through a series of meetings and workshops with stakeholders.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.