Grid Innovation

RASEI Fellows receive 2024-2025 Deloitte and CIC Research Awards

Daniel Morton — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:11:59 +0000

RASEI Fellows receive 2024-2025 Deloitte and CIC Research Awards Daniel Morton Mon, 11/11/2024 - 14:11

Daniel Morton

The Climate Innovation Collaboratory (CIC) was launched as a collaborative venture between CU ��«��Ƶ and Deloitte, with the goal of translating cutting-edge climate research and data into meaningful climate solutions for businesses, organization, government agencies and communities.

This year three RASEI Fellows were recipients of awards to develop long-term engagements with Deloitte and expand access to critical climate data analytics, research and technology. These projects explore how the renewable energy grid can be built out to offer clean solutions for AI data centers and greater adoption of electric vehicles.

RASEI Fellow Bri-Mathias Hodge is the principal investigator for a project titled “Interconnection Planning for Large Data Centers”. The goal is to develop a system planning tool to automate the initial processes needed for utilities to identify generation expansion, network reinforcement, and asset upgrades to meet the demands of new data centers. This work will help utilities, grid operators, and data center operators to deal with the expansion in the number and energy usage of data centers at the state, regional, and international levels. With the rise of AI, seen as the industrial revolution of the 21^st century, better understanding of how and where to place the data centers that are the engines driving this transformation will be critical.

RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker is the principal investigator for a project titled “Viability of long- and short-duration energy storage for AI Data Centers: Carbon, Cost, and Reliability”. This project combines the benefits of short and long duration energy storage to increase uptime, improve renewable energy utilization, and lower payback periods for AI data centers. By developing an optimization framework for data centers energy storage that leverages price and renewable energy forecasts to co-optimize cost, carbon, and resilience. Creation of a tool that optimizes data energy storage would have significant relevance to commercial and government clients seeking to lower data center consumption.

RASEI Fellow Stephanie Weber is the principal investigator for a project titled “EV Infrastructure and local economic spillovers”. This project seeks to understand both how the construction of public electric vehicle charging infrastructure affects the surrounding areas as well as the tradeoffs associated with prioritizing equity in public charging locations. This will help inform state and national governments in the deployment of EV charging stations, to help incentivize EV adoption, and better understand the non-monetary impact of building EV chargers.

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Towards robust and scalable dispatch modeling of long-duration energy storage

Daniel Morton — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:25:33 +0000

Towards robust and scalable dispatch modeling of long-duration energy storage Daniel Morton Thu, 09/26/2024 - 11:25

RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS, 2024, 207, 114940

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The climate-energy nexus: a critical review of power grid components, extreme weather, and adaptation measures

Daniel Morton — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:21:10 +0000

The climate-energy nexus: a critical review of power grid components, extreme weather, and adaptation measures Daniel Morton Thu, 09/12/2024 - 11:21

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH: INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY, 2024, 032002

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The Grid Can Handle More Renewable Energy, But It Needs Some Help

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

The Grid Can Handle More Renewable Energy, But It Needs Some Help Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/26/2024 - 00:00

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Weather-related power outages are on the rise. Here's why, what to expect in the future

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Weather-related power outages are on the rise. Here's why, what to expect in the future Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 07/23/2024 - 00:00

This discussion in CU ��«��Ƶ Today with RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker explores the importance of the power grid, how climate change is threatening aging infrastructure and what upgrades are needed to support a future powered by renewable energy

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Optimal environmental and economic performance trade-offs for fifth generation district heating and cooling network topologies with waste heat recovery

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Optimal environmental and economic performance trade-offs for fifth generation district heating and cooling network topologies with waste heat recovery Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 04/27/2024 - 00:00

ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, 2024, 309, 118322

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Colorado is latest state to try turning off the electrical grid to prevent wildfires

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Colorado is latest state to try turning off the electrical grid to prevent wildfires Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/12/2024 - 00:00

Kyri Baker discusses the benefits and challenges of this strategy.

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Power system operational impacts of electric vehicle dynamic wireless charging

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Power system operational impacts of electric vehicle dynamic wireless charging Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/08/2024 - 00:00

APPLIED ENERGY, 2024, 364, 123002

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Evaluation of the electrical parameters and performance of floating PV generators

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Evaluation of the electrical parameters and performance of floating PV generators Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/21/2024 - 00:00

RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, 2024, 9, 5

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Status report on emerging photovoltaics

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Status report on emerging photovoltaics Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/14/2023 - 00:00

JOURNAL OF PHOTONICS FOR ENERGY, 2023, 13, 4, 042301

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