SCC-PG: Building Smart Communities to Advance Solar Energy in Rural America

SCC-PG：建设智能社区以推进美国农村地区的太阳能

• 批准号: 2125548
• 负责人: Anil Pahwa
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2125548&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; PG; Building; Smart; Communities

This planning NSF S&CC project aims to investigate key technical, economic, social, and policy issues that influence the transition to a green and sustainable energy future for rural communities. The project is based on a hypothesis that policies, incentives and strategies that are community-focused rather than individual-focused will be more effective in advancing solar energy in rural America. The intellectual merits include convergent research to investigate social, technical, economic, and policy issues in an integrative manner to obtain detailed understanding of barriers to solar energy in rural communities and to explore strategies to advance solar energy in these communities using a smart and interconnected co-design framework. Broader impacts include enhancing the understanding of barriers to advancing solar energy in rural America and seeking solutions to overcome these barriers while explicitly placing social equity as key criteria in the models. Advancing solar energy in rural communities will not only contribute to the social goal of reducing dependence on fossil fuels and mitigating climate change, it adds economic values to the rural communities and provide economic opportunities to its citizens. By engaging the community of citizens of Greensburg and other rural communities in Kansas, and the community of rural energy service providers, the project will disseminate relevant information for advancing solar energy in rural America. The project will support students for research tasks. Efforts will be made to engage women students and students from under-represented groups in the project. The students’ involvement will enable them to receive hands-on training in a range of interdisciplinary research techniques. The research team will conduct appropriate surveys of the community of residents in Greensburg, Kansas and other rural communities in Kansas, and the community of rural municipalities and electricity service providers to delineate issues that influence the transition to a green and sustainable energy future for rural communities. Understanding these barriers will enable effective strategies to foster an environment that would be conducive to advancing solar PV in rural communities. This research will also develop the application of persuasion research in psychology to real-world problems and context in order to achieve positive social change. Innovative data analysis, engineering, and economics principles will be used to determine appropriate size and locations of the PV and storage for Greensburg. A key innovative aspect is co-design of planning and operational framework with engagement of city administrators, industry, community and other stakeholders. The project will use a holistic approach to find solutions for optimal deployment of solar energy and management of distributed energy resources. Economic solutions will integrate impacts on social and economic equity for rural areas in the transition to a green energy future. Given that solar energy penetration in rural communities is at a nascent stage, the proposed co-design framework could serve as a shining example for other communities aspiring to transition towards a sustainable energy future.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.

该计划NSF S＆CC项目旨在调查影响农村社区过渡到绿色和可持续能源未来的关键技术，经济，社会和政策问题。该项目基于一个假设，即以社区为中心而不是以个人为中心的政策，激励措施和策略将在美国农村的太阳能推动太阳能方面更有效。智力优点包括以综合方式调查社会，技术，经济和政策问题的融合研究，以详细了解农村社区中太阳能的障碍，并探索使用智能和相互联系的共同设计框架来推动这些社区推进太阳能的策略。更广泛的影响包括增强对在美国农村推进太阳能障碍的理解，并寻求解决这些障碍的解决方案，同时明确将社会公平作为模型中的关键标准。推进农村社区的太阳能不仅有助于减少对化石燃料的依赖并减轻气候变化的社会目标，还为农村社区增加了经济价值，并为其公民提供经济机会。通过与格林斯堡公民社区和堪萨斯州的其他农村社区以及农村能源服务提供商的社区参与，该项目将传播相关信息，以推动美国农村的太阳能推进。该项目将支持学生完成研究任务。将努力吸引该项目中代表性不足的群体的女学生和学生。学生的参与将使他们能够接受一系列跨学科研究技术的动手培训。研究团队将对格林斯堡，堪萨斯州和堪萨斯州其他农村社区的居民社区以及农村市政当局和电力服务提供商社区进行适当的调查，以描述影响到绿色社区过渡到绿色和可持续能源的过渡的问题。了解这些障碍将使有效的策略能够促进一个环境，以推动农村社区的太阳能光伏。这项研究还将发展心理学中的说服力研究在现实世界中的问题和环境中，以实现积极的社会变革。创新的数据分析，工程和经济学原则将用于确定Greensburg的PV和存储位置的适当尺寸和位置。一个关键的创新方面是计划和运营框架的共同设计，以及城市管理人员，行业，社区和其他利益相关者的参与。该项目将使用一种整体方法来找到解决方案，以最佳地部署太阳能和分布式能源的管理。经济解决方案将在过渡到绿色能源未来的过程中将对社会和经济公平的影响融合到社会和经济公平的情况下。鉴于在粗糙社区中的太阳能渗透是在一个新生的阶段，因此提出的共同设计框架可以作为其他有望过渡到可持续能源未来的社区的光辉榜样。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被视为通过使用基金会的知识和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria，通过评估来通过评估来获得支持。