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

工程研究中心规划拨款竞赛是ERC项目的试点征集。规划补助金不需要作为ERC竞赛的一部分，但它旨在在团队之间建立能力，以规划聚合的、中心规模的工程研究。这项计划拨款将为一个新的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，其拟议任务是满足我们社会对可持续和可再生能源的移动性和可达性的加速需求。考虑到以化石燃料为基础的交通运输是全球污染的主要来源，在动态控制的分布式能源的辅助下，通过使用可再生、脱碳的能源为交通运输电气化，存在着改变地球气候轨迹的巨大机会。预计CESSET旨在带来的创新将扭转人为造成的气候变化和空气污染的严峻预测。除了健康效益之外，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，对经济产生积极影响。这种新的交通运输未来需要研究先进的能源储存。尽管汽车行业已经开始了汽车电气化的趋势，并且有大量资金用于储能，但进展缓慢且分散。为了准备新的中心规模的研究工作，需要进行严格的范围研究，以揭示协同效应，确定最具影响力的研究方向，制定促进学科之间整合的战略，并确保专业知识和合作机构的正确结合。在这笔规划赠款中，CESSET将形成实现其愿景的战略，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以外的影响。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.