BD Spokes: PLANNING: NORTHEAST: Partnerships for Energy cycle Innovation through Big Data (PPEID)

该项目旨在开展所需的规划，以开发大数据辐条，重点关注能源部门利用大数据进行创新。项目组将汇集建筑和数据中心能源使用信息、电网和需求管理、替代能源和未来能源以及存储方法方面的兴趣和优势。该项目的主要成果将是发展一系列合作伙伴关系，以利用新的和现有的数据科学方法，并在能源部门核心需求的驱动下，激发对这些方法的新研究。该项目将重点关注这些合作伙伴关系的建立，利用南布法罗地区棕色土地重建的公用事业供应所产生的明确问题，这是目前正在进行的转型经济复苏的关键部分。口头规划活动将采取一系列确定需要的“小型讲习班”的形式，然后是一系列由项目人员和合作伙伴支助的“咨询活动”，这些人员和合作伙伴可以处理挑战问题不同方面的需要。私营部门（公用事业公司、棕地投资者和租户）、非政府组织和学者（来自该地区6所大学）的参与将在规划工作结束时提供对能力和问题的清晰理解。东北大数据中心将为建立这些伙伴关系提供必要的支持，为参与过程提供后勤保障，并提供数据共享、道德、隐私和教育等许多核心领域的技能。该项目将支持棕地重建，这将使布法罗的大片地区恢复活力，并对纽约州北部和该地区的经济福祉产生直接影响。许多社区经常遇到这种发展所涉及的问题，从长远来看，我们的解决方案将有大批受益者。实现这一目标所需的许多伙伴关系的成功形成，将继续为东北及其他地区能源部门的许多其他社区提供数据和信息需求。来自相关大学的大量学生和早期职业专业人士也将参与其中。

This project is to conduct the planning needed to develop a Big Data Spoke focused on energy sector innovations using big data. The project group will bring together interests and strengths on building and data center energy usage informatics, grids and demand management and alternate and future energy sources along with storage methodologies. The primary outcomes of the project will be the development of a series of partnerships to leverage new and existing data science methodologies and inspire new research on such methodologies driven by the core needs of the energy sector. The project will focus the setup of these partnerships using the well-defined problems arising from utility provisioning for a brown-field redevelopment in the South Buffalo area that is a critical part of the transformative economic resurgence currently underway. Spoke planning activity will take the form of a series of "mini-workshops" that define the needs followed by a series of "consulting engagements" to be supported by project personnel and partners that can address needs in different aspects of the challenge problem. The engagement of private sector (utility companies, brownfield investors and tenants), non-governmental organizations and academics (from 6 universities across the region) will provide a clear understanding of capabilities and issues at the end of the planning exercise. The Northeast Big Data Hub will provide essential support in forming these partnerships, logistics for the engagement processes and providing access to the skills in many core areas like data sharing, ethics, privacy and education.The Project will support brownfield redevelopment that will revitalize large swaths of Buffalo will have an immediate impact on the economic well being of upstate New York and the region. Many communities commonly encounter the issues involved in such development and our solutions will have a large set of beneficiaries in the long term. The successful formation of the many partnerships needed to accomplish this will then go on to serve many other communities in the data and information needs of the energy sector in the North east and beyond. There will also be a large engagement of students and early career professionals from the universities involved.