Advancing Sustainable Low Carbon Energy

该项目将汇集广泛的利益相关者，包括工业界、学术界和政府，涵盖从技术到经济以及其他与采用相关的领域，通过部署低碳能源系统，对与可持续发展相关的优先事项、合作主题和可交付成果进行适度讨论。这将为取得有影响力的成果提供框架和途径，从而在短期内迅速部署可持续能源范例。发展经济上可行和可靠的可持续能源模式仍然是技术发展和政策驱动的前沿。重要的挑战是开发可靠和负担得起的电网规模的能源储存，创新经济上可行的新型碳捕获、利用和封存（CCUS），减少化学转化的能源和环境足迹，想象和提供脱碳和负担得起的工业能源，以及确保零浪费范例的真正循环塑料经济。推进科学和工程的融合，重点关注能源和可持续性问题，包括碳管理、可再生能源和替代燃料（如氢和能源储存），对推动能源转型至关重要。此外，发展劳动力的能力和竞争力以及实现这一转变的工具。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。

This project will bring together a broad group of stakeholders including industry, academia and government covering areas ranging from technical to economics, and other areas related to adoption for a moderated discussion of priorities, collaborative topics and deliverables related to sustainability through deployment of low carbon energy systems. This will provide a framework and path for impactful results that will result in the rapid deployment of sustainable energy paradigms in the short term. Development of sustainable energy paradigms that are economically realizable and reliable remains at the forefront of technological development and policy drivers. Important challenges are developing grid-scale energy storage that is reliable and affordable, innovating novel carbon capture, utilization and sequestration (CCUS) that is economically feasible, reducing the energy and environmental footprint of chemical conversion, imagining and delivering a decarbonized and affordable industrial energy and a truly circular plastics economy that ensures a zero-waste paradigm. The convergence of advancing science and engineering focusing on issues of energy and sustainability including carbon management, renewable energy and alternate fuels such as hydrogen and energy storage are crucial to drive the energy transition. Moreover, developing the capabilities and competencies of the workforce and the tools that will enable this transition.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.