Yuhong Liu, Yi Fang, and Hohyun Lee received $249,987 from NSF
Yuhong Liu and Yi Fang with the Computer Science and Engineering Department and Hohyun Lee with the Mechanical Engineering Department have received a $249,987 award from the National Science Foundation. These funds will support their project "Equitable and User-Centric Energy Market for Resilient Grid-interactive Communities".
Affordable, sustainable, and reliable electricity plays a central role in modern society. From electric vehicles to artificial intelligence, from smart cities to resilient neighborhoods, electric power has become the essential form of energy to meet our ever-growing demand for productivity, safety, mobility, livability, prosperity, and many more, and electrification is now one of the key technological transformations to battle climate change, increase clean energy, and drive the evolution of our communities. The proposal aims to establish a global centre of multi-disciplinary research between the U.S. and Canada to investigate innovative transactive energy frameworks, mechanisms, and technologies for clean and resilient energy. As a Track 2 - Design application, the proposal will build on existing multi-year collaborations between Santa Clara University (California, USA) and Concordia University (Quebec, Canada) to 1) establish an interactive and operational research centre, 2) create a critical mass of active and diversified researchers and collaborators, and 3) structure an innovative and sustainable research program.