NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing smart grid technologies in Pacific Northwest (OR, ID, WA)

这一地区引擎发展奖的重点是通过以智能、公平、可互操作和安全为特征的生态系统实现能源公平和繁荣。Splins的使命是通过协调和连接太平洋西北地区的学术机构、新成立的企业、风险资本和政府的活动，成为区域创新的中心。该地区处于理想的位置，可以在电力行业创造具有国家意义的变革性、行业定义的创新。在该地区，有各种各样的城市和农村社区，这些社区表现出部署可再生能源的有利条件，并具有未得到充分利用的消费者参与计划的能力。亮片合作伙伴将本着技术必须可靠和安全的原则，创新智能能源产品和服务。在共同的社会技术框架下，即围绕网络-物理安全创新构建的可互操作的智能电网架构，在确保公平、隐私和信任的同时，提供电力基础设施的弹性和安全性。亮片团队是一个由太平洋西北地区31名合作伙伴组成的跨学科团队。成员组织代表网络安全和电力行业、公用事业客户、地区政府、高等教育机构、前沿研究人员、受影响的利益攸关方和企业界。领先的合作伙伴包括波特兰州立大学、俄勒冈州立大学、俄勒冈大学、QualityLogic、Galois和太平洋西北国家实验室。SEQUINS将通过五项核心活动促进生态系统内的发展和创新：1)创业和业务发展，2)受使用启发的研究和开发，网络物理安全和最终用户研究，3)互操作性和标准化，4)咨询、宣传和政策支持，5)和劳动力发展。这些活动将促进智能电网技术生态系统的发展，使大规模参与能够基于开放的通信协议、客户驱动的交易、隐私保护、最先进的网络安全和向所有人开放的实践。Splins将召集利益攸关方通过四个阶段将活动转化为实践：发现-以数据为导向的区域能力调查，发现障碍和驱动因素；问题制定-确定缩小能力差距的长期战略目标，确定跟踪目标进展的指标；设计-以使用为灵感，务实地寻找解决方案，以缩小差距并推动实现战略目标；选择-创建路线图，选择解决方案提案，确定解决方案的优先顺序，并从战略上调整解决方案提案，然后规划实施所需的工作结构和流程。该地区引擎发展奖将促进研究、企业家、行业、资本和政府之间的协调，以确定整个太平洋西北地区公平智能电网的路线图。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Regional Engine Development Award is focused on achieving energy equity and prosperity through an ecosystem characterized as Smart, EQUitable, INteroperable, and Secure. The SEQUINS mission is to become a hub of regional innovation by coordinating and connecting the activities of academic institutions, new and established businesses, risk capital, and governments across the Pacific Northwest. This region is ideally positioned to create transformative, industry-defining innovations in the electric power sector that are of national significance. Within the region is a diverse range of urban and rural communities that exhibit favorable conditions for deploying renewable energy and have the underused capacity for consumer-participation programs. SEQUINS partners will innovate smart energy products and services based on the principle that technology must be dependable and safe. Under a common socio-technical framework, namely interoperable smart grid architectures built around cyber-physical security innovations, that provide resilience and security of electrical infrastructure while ensuring equity, privacy, and trust. The SEQUINS team is an interdisciplinary group of 31 partners across the Pacific Northwest. Member organizations represent the cybersecurity and electric power industries, utility customers, regional governments, higher education institutions, cutting-edge researchers, impacted stakeholders, and the entrepreneurial community. Leadership partners include Portland State University, Oregon State University, the University of Oregon, QualityLogic, Galois, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.SEQUINS will promote development and innovation within the ecosystem through five core activities: 1) entrepreneurship and business development, 2) use-inspired research and development, cyber-physical security, and end-user research, 3) interoperability and standardization, 4) consulting, advocacy, and policy support, 5) and workforce development. These activities will foster a smart grid technology ecosystem growth that enables large-scale participation based on open communication protocols, customer-driven transactions, privacy protection, state-of-the-art cybersecurity, and open-to-all practices. SEQUINS will convene stakeholders to translate activities into practice through four phases: Discovery - data-driven investigation of regional capacities, discover barriers and drivers; Problem Formulation - identify long-term strategic goals for closing capacity gaps, identify metrics for tracking progress towards goals; Design - engage in a use-inspired, pragmatic search for solutions that close gaps and create movement towards achieving strategic goals; and Selection - create a roadmap that selects, prioritizes, and strategically aligns the solution proposals, then plan the work structures and processes needed for their implementation. This Regional Engine Development Award will facilitate coordination between research, entrepreneurship, industry, capital, and government to scope a roadmap for an equitable smart grid across the Pacific Northwest.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.