Global Centers Track 1: Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS)

EPICS中心的愿景是成为向100%可再生能源（T100RE）电网过渡的解决方案开发的全球科学领导者。该中心旨在成为一个全球多学科的从摇篮到坟墓的创新和实施生态系统，吸引行业、政策和公共利益相关者，并加速已开发解决方案的转移。需要建立全球和多方利益相关者伙伴关系，这有助于及时制定和实施合理的工程、经济、计算和政策方法，以实现积极的气候目标，同时避免不必要的昂贵和浪费的做法和延误。向100%可再生能源（T100RE）电网过渡，对于占全球碳排放量42%的全球电力部门的脱碳，以及支持其他经济部门和能源最终用途（如交通运输、供暖和制冷以及工业）的气候关键型脱碳至关重要。EPICS中心由来自澳大利亚（墨尔本大学、莫纳什大学、联邦科学与工业研究组织）、英国（伦敦帝国理工学院、爱丁堡大学、斯特拉斯克莱德大学、纽卡斯尔大学）和美国(约翰霍普金斯大学、佐治亚理工学院、加州大学戴维斯分校、未来资源)来执行拟议的研究议程，并与三个全球性组织建立了合作伙伴关系-全球电力系统转型（G-PST）联盟，能源系统集成集团（ESIG）和未来电力论坛市场(FPFM) -他们承诺自己的资源来支持EPICS中心的实施议程，即将研究发现转化为实践，教育和劳动力发展，以及公众宣传。EPICS中心模糊了全球清洁能源社区传统上分离的学术和工业研究活动之间的界限，并提供了一个多学科的研究响应，与G-PST， ESIG和FPFM一起，解决未来T100RE电网在效率，可靠性，弹性和可持续性方面的差距。

The EPICS centre's vision is to become the global scientific leader in the development of the solutions for transitioning Towards a 100% Renewable Energy (T100RE) power grids. The centre is meant to be a global multidisciplinary cradle-to-grave innovation and implementation ecosystem engaging industry, policy and public stakeholders and accelerating transfer of the developed solutions. The need for both global and multi-stakeholder partnerships is instrumental for developing and implementing sound engineering, economic, computational and policy methods in time to achieve aggressive climate goals, while averting unnecessarily costly and wasteful practices and delays. Transitioning Towards a 100% Renewable Energy (T100RE) power grid is critical for both decarbonisation of the global electric power sector which is responsible for 42% of the global carbon emissions, and for supporting climate-critical decarbonisation of other economic sectors and energy end uses (e.g., transportation, heating and cooling, and industry). The EPICS Centre formed a community of academic leaders from Australia (University of Melbourne, Monash University, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), UK (Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, Strathclyde University, Newcastle University) and US (Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Tech, UC Davis, Resources for the Future) to execute the proposed research agenda and established partnerships with three global organizations - Global Power System Transformation (G-PST) Consortium, Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG) and Future Power Forum Market (FPFM) - who committed their own resources to support the EPICS Centre's implementation agenda, that is translation of research discoveries into practice, education and workforce development, and public outreach. The EPICS Centre blurs the bounds between the traditionally separated academic and industry research activities in the global clean-energy community, and offers a multi- disciplinary research response to address, jointly with G-PST, ESIG and FPFM, the gaps in efficiency, reliability, resiliency, and sustainability of T100RE power grids of the future.