NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing energy and resilience technologies in the Permian Basin (TX, NM)

该区域创新引擎发展奖的重点是确保二叠纪盆地的社区参与并公平地获得全球向低碳能源系统过渡的经济和环境效益。二叠纪盆地能源技术和弹性联盟（PETRA）将利用该地区大量的能源基础设施和专业知识-通过数十年来在全球范围内大规模生产能源而发展-支持先进能源解决方案和技术的研究，开发和商业化。二叠纪盆地包括新墨西哥州东部和德克萨斯州西部的66个县，包括城市中心（例如，米德兰，该地区的“石油之都”）和广阔的农村地区。它的经济与化石燃料行业有着独特而深刻的联系。然而，虽然共同面临许多经济和环境挑战和机遇，但其社区相当多样化，每个社区都有独特的文化价值观和能源生产专长。PETRA的广泛合作伙伴联盟，总部设在该地区内外，专注于这些社区的成功和服务。辛西娅和乔治米切尔基金会的地方联系和推广将确保引擎的活动是社区驱动的。新墨西哥州州立大学、新墨西哥州理工学院、米德兰学院、敖德萨学院、德克萨斯农工大学、德克萨斯大学（UT）二叠纪盆地分校、德州大学埃尔帕索分校和德州大学奥斯汀分校将分享他们在使用启发研究和教育规划方面的大量资源，国家可再生能源实验室和桑迪亚国家实验室也将如此。米德兰和敖德萨开发公司和当地大学将支持劳动力发展。包括GTI Energy在内的行业合作伙伴将支持将创新转化为实践。 设想中的PETRA项目将支持区域清洁能源技术和应用研究框架的发展，以吸引其他石油和天然气依赖地区的参与并为其提供信息。为此，它将大规模开发和展示先进的能源技术;改善系统的环境绩效;通过基于地方的经济发展办法和切合目的的教育，与地方社区分享能源经济的惠益;并在社区参与、使用启发式研究，将该地区的创新生态系统从当前的开发阶段发展到完整NSF引擎的新生阶段。在准备一个令人信服的完整的NSF发动机提案，这个发展奖将支持PETRA的持续努力，建立一个平台，为不同的利益相关者之间的合作，并从事由PETRA合作伙伴提供的多样化的创业生态系统的资源，以确保社区和经济发展是公平的，可扩展的，该奖项反映了NSF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 Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on ensuring that the communities of the Permian Basin participate in and equitably accrue the economic and environmental benefits of the global transition to a low-carbon energy system. The Permian Basin Energy Technology and Resilience Alliance (PETRA) will leverage the region's considerable energy infrastructure and expertise - developed through decades of producing energy on a globally significant scale - to support research, development, and commercialization of advanced energy solutions and technologies. A 66-county region encompassing eastern New Mexico and West Texas, the Permian Basin includes urban centers (e.g., Midland, the region's "oil capital") and vast rural territory. Its economy is uniquely and deeply tied to the fossil fuel industry. Yet, while sharing many economic and environmental challenges and opportunities, its communities are quite diverse, each with distinct cultural values and specialties in energy production. PETRA's broad coalition of partners, based in and around the region, is focused on the success and service of these communities. The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation's local ties and outreach will ensure that the engine's activities are community-driven. New Mexico State University, New Mexico Tech, Midland College, Odessa College, Texas A&M University, University of Texas (UT) of the Permian Basin, UT El Paso, and UT Austin will share their considerable resources in use-inspired research and educational programming, as will the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. The Midland and Odessa development corporations and local colleges will support workforce development. Industry partners, including GTI Energy, will support translating innovation to practice. The envisioned PETRA project will support the development of a regional clean-energy technology and applied-research framework to engage and inform other oil- and gas-dependent regions. To do so, it will develop and demonstrate advanced energy technologies at scale; improve systemic environmental performance; share the benefits of the energy economy with local communities through place-based economic development approaches and fit-for-purpose education; and implement best practices in community-engaged, use-inspired research to grow the region's innovation ecosystem from its current Development Phase into a Nascent Phase of a full NSF Engine. In preparation for a compelling full NSF Engines proposal, this development award will support PETRA's continued efforts to build a platform for collaboration among diverse stakeholders and engage the resources of diverse entrepreneurial ecosystems offered by the PETRA partners to ensure that community and economic development are equitable, scalable, and central to the future of energy.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.