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

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Extreme气候事件，如热浪或野火，经常扰乱电网。这些骚乱影响了许多人的生活，阻碍了企业的生产率。因此，至关重要的是使电网现代化，并确保它能够承受或迅速从气候扰动日益加剧的影响中恢复过来。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-加拿大气候弹性西部互联电网中心汇集了一个国际研究团队，使用最先进的建模工具评估电网发生极端事件的风险。该中心开发新技术并设计适应和缓解解决方案，以克服干扰。该中心利用学术界、产业界、政府和社区的多方面合作伙伴关系以及美国和加拿大的专业知识和资源。它让学术界以外的利益攸关方参与进来，以确保研究成果得到可预见的应用。通过利用跨境协作，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，以及对美国西部当地社区的外联和教育活动。该中心追求四个主要的受使用启发的研究优先事项：(A)创建区域极端扰动的风险量化和预测的定制模型，以更好地为潜在的电网中断做准备；(B)全面了解社区对气候驱动的极端扰动的需求、能力和适应过程，以便制定有效的气候适应战略；(C)建立收集、管理和共享气候和电网数据的联邦网络基础设施，以促进利益攸关方之间的协作和信息交流；(D)根据上述数据和见解，开发电力系统短期运行和长期规划的新模式。该奖项由全球中心计划资助，该计划是与澳大利亚、加拿大和英国的资助机构建立的创新合作伙伴关系，旨在共同支持受使用启发的研究，以应对气候变化和清洁能源方面的全球挑战。与英联邦科学与创新研究组织(CSIRO)、加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会(NSERC)、加拿大社会科学与人文研究理事会(SSHRC)和英国研究与创新(UKRI)的合作伙伴关系利用资源来应对比一个资助机构单独可能面临的更大规模的挑战。该中心由NSF和NSERC共同支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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.