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

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 规划赠款不需要作为整个ERC竞赛的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划收敛，中心规模的工程研究。该规划补助金将为新的NSF工程研究中心CESSET奠定基础：电气化交通中的综合储能解决方案，其拟议的使命是以可持续和可持续的方式满足我们社会对移动性和可访问性的不断增长的需求。可再生能源鉴于基于化石燃料的运输是全球污染的主要来源，存在着巨大的机会，可以通过动态控制的分布式能源资源辅助的可再生脱碳能源来改善运输，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。 除了健康方面的好处，这种转变还将通过大幅减少石油进口和重组国内制造业产生积极的经济影响。这种新的交通未来需要研究先进的储能技术。尽管汽车行业已经开始了汽车电气化的趋势，并且为储能提供了大量资金，但进展缓慢且各自为政。在准备一个新的中心规模的研究工作，需要一个严格的范围研究，以揭示协同作用，确定最有影响力的研究方向，制定战略，将促进学科之间的整合，并确保专业知识和合作伙伴机构的正确组合。在这项规划拨款中，CESSET实现其愿景的战略将特别强调开发多学科课程和培训计划，并影响国家和国际政策以及市场趋势。在拟议的规划补助金的背景下，将通过一系列与利益相关者的会议和研讨会来追求大学研究之外的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.