Global Centers Track 1: U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid

全球中心轨道 1：美国-加拿大气候适应型西部互联电网中心

• 批准号: 2330582
• 负责人: Masood Parvania
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Centers; Track; U.S.; Canada

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Extreme climate events, such as heat waves or wildfires, often disrupt the power grid. These disturbances affect the lives of many and impede enterprise productivity. It is thus critical to modernize the Grid and ensure that it can withstand or recover quickly from the intensifying effects of climate disturbances. Engineering a climate-resilient Grid is, however, challenging. It requires better understanding and forecasting of climate-driven disturbance risks. Grid stability also depends on end-user energy demand. Furthermore, grids in the western U.S. and Canada are interconnected which adds to the complexity and requires international collaboration. The U.S.-Canada Center on Climate-Resilient Western Interconnected Grid brings together an international team of researchers to assess the risk of extreme event for power grids using state-of-the-art modeling tools. The Center develops new technologies and design adaptation and mitigation solutions to overcome disturbances. The Center leverages multi-faceted partnerships across academia, industry, government, and communities and expertise and resources in both the U.S. and Canada. It engages stakeholders beyond academia to ensure foreseeable applications of the research outcomes. By leveraging cross-border collaboration, it creates knowledge and technologies that can be applied beyond the context of the western U.S. and Canada region, globally. This award also provides support for undergraduate and graduate students at the Universities of Utah and New Mexico and other professionals in California and Nevada, as well as outreach and educational activities to local communities in the western U.S.The Center pursues four major use-inspired research priorities: (a) create customized models for risk quantification and forecasting of regional extreme disturbances to better prepare for potential disruptions to power grids; (b) establish a comprehensive understanding of community needs, capacities, and adaptation processes towards climate-driven extreme disturbances, in order to develop effective climate-resilience strategies; (c) build a federated cyberinfrastructure for collecting, governing, and sharing climate and grid data, in order to facilitate collaboration and information exchange among stakeholders; (d) develop new models for short-term operation and long-term planning of power systems that are informed by the aforementioned data and insights. This award is funded by the Global Centers program, an innovative partnership with funding agencies in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom, to jointly support use-inspired research addressing global challenges in climate change and clean energy. Partnerships with the Commonwealth Science and Innovation Research Organisation (CSIRO), Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) leverage resources to tackle challenges at a larger scale than would be possible for one funding agency alone. This Center is jointly supported by NSF and NSERC.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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 极端气候事件,如热浪和野火,经常扰乱电网。这些干扰影响了许多人的生活，阻碍了企业的生产力。因此，实现电网现代化并确保其能够承受气候扰动加剧的影响或迅速恢复是至关重要的。然而，设计一个适应气候变化的电网是具有挑战性的。这需要更好地理解和预测气候驱动的干扰风险。电网的稳定性还取决于终端用户的能源需求。此外，美国西部和加拿大的电网相互连接，这增加了复杂性，需要国际合作。美国-加拿大气候适应性西部互联电网中心汇集了一个国际研究小组，利用最先进的建模工具评估电网极端事件的风险。该中心开发新技术，设计适应和缓解干扰的解决方案。该中心利用美国和加拿大学术界、工业界、政府和社区以及专业知识和资源的多方面合作伙伴关系。它吸引了学术界以外的利益相关者，以确保研究成果的可预见应用。通过利用跨境合作，它创造了可以在美国西部和加拿大地区以外的全球范围内应用的知识和技术。该奖项还为犹他大学和新墨西哥大学的本科生和研究生以及加利福尼亚州和内华达州的其他专业人员提供支持，并为美国西部当地社区的推广和教育活动提供支持。该中心追求四个主要的使用启发研究优先事项：(a)为区域极端干扰的风险量化和预测创建定制模型，以更好地为潜在的电网中断做好准备；(b)全面了解社区对气候驱动的极端干扰的需求、能力和适应过程，以便制定有效的气候适应战略；(c)建立一个联邦网络基础设施，用于收集、管理和共享气候和电网数据，以促进利益相关者之间的协作和信息交流；(d)根据上述数据和见解，为电力系统的短期运作和长期规划发展新的模式。该奖项由全球中心项目资助，该项目与澳大利亚、加拿大和英国的资助机构建立了创新伙伴关系，共同支持以使用为灵感的研究，应对气候变化和清洁能源方面的全球挑战。与联邦科学与创新研究组织（CSIRO）、加拿大自然科学与工程研究委员会（NSERC）、加拿大社会科学与人文研究委员会（SSHRC）和英国研究与创新（UKRI）合作，利用资源应对比单独一个资助机构可能面临的更大规模的挑战。本中心由NSF和NSERC联合支持。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。