Travel Grant: Joint US-European Workshop "Flexible Electric Grid Critical Infrastructure for Resilient Society"

电网关键基础设施正在经历重大转型，从集中的碳密集型传统发电选择到分布式能源形式的可再生能源。本次NSF研讨会的目标是汇集来自不同科学学科的研究人员之间的广泛合作，如数据分析，计算科学，大气科学以及社会和行为科学-解决复杂系统的工程将使应对这些新兴挑战所需的融合科学成为可能。其目标是继续2020年和2021年在美国举行的NSF赞助研讨会的讨论，并与2022年在欧洲的欧洲合作伙伴联合举行，来自50多个美国/欧洲学术界的100多名研究人员参加了研讨会，政府和行业组织，通过拟议的研讨会，在更广泛的科学参与下，社区该研讨会将邀请来自不同科学学科和各种应用领域的研究人员参与，以解决关键基础设施之间相互依存的科学，工程，社会和经济挑战，以及如何为政策和监管过程提供所需的变化。科学价值在于研究人员和从业人员之间的聚合科学讨论，将探索五个科学领域：（1）基于数据和物理的建模发现深度学习方法的新基础，（2）转型电网分布式控制策略为未来的弹性净零电网奠定基础，（3）社会科学和行为科学之间的协同作用，以评估电网现代化的人性化方面，从而为电力市场和激励机制提供新的模式，以及（4）数百万物联网消费者的网络安全和隐私要求的可扩展性，（5）电网基础设施与其他关键基础设施的交叉依赖。该研讨会还将讨论如何建立伙伴关系，密切合作，向公众提供信息和参与，并加强K-12学生和早期携带者专业人员的STEM教育和培训。与来自十几个主要欧洲国家的15所大学的同行交流的国际经验将对美国参与者形成更广泛的社会，文化和政治对电网现代化的理解是非常宝贵的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The electric grid critical infrastructure is undergoing a major transformation from concentrated carbon-intensive legacy generation options to renewables in the form of distributed energy resources. The goal of this NSF workshop is to bring together a wide-spread collaboration among researchers from different scientific disciplines, such as data analytics, computational sciences, atmospheric sciences, and social and behavioral sciences – addressing the engineering of complex systems will enable the convergent science needed to address these emerging challenges. The objective is to continue the discussion from the prior NSF-sponsored Workshops held in the USA in 2020 and 2021, and jointly with the European partners in Europe in 2022, attended by over 100 researchers from well over 50 US/European academic, government and industry organizations to further grid resilience discoveries and strategies through the proposed workshop with the participation of a wider scientific community. The workshop will engage researchers from different scientific disciplines and a variety of application domains to address scientific, engineering, social, and economic challenges of interdependencies among critical infrastructures and how to inform the policy and regulatory process of the needed changes. The scientific merit is in the convergent scientific discussion among researchers and practitioners that will explore five scientific areas: (1) Data and physics-based modeling discovering new fundamentals in deep-learning approaches, (2) Transformational electric grid distributed control strategies laying the foundation for a resilient net-zero grid of the future, (3) Synergies between social and behavioral sciences to assess a human aspect of grid modernization leading to new models for electricity markets and incentives, and (4) Scalability of cybersecurity and privacy requirements across millions of internet-of-things consumers, and (5) Cross-dependency between electric grid infrastructure and other critical infrastructures. The workshop will also address how to develop partnerships that will work closely on informing and engaging the public and enhancing the STEM education and training of K-12 students and early-carrier professionals. The international experience of interacting with peers from 15 universities from a dozen leading European countries will be invaluable for the USA participants in forming a broader social, cultural, and political understanding of grid modernization.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.