SETO works to enable the safe, reliable, secure, and cost-effective integration of solar energy into the nation’s electricity grid through RD&D activities. These activities address the key technical challenges in power system planning and operations, solar forecasting and variability management, control optimization, system protection and stabilities, energy storage integration, power electronics, real-time situational awareness, and cybersecurity. Projects funded under this FOA will develop software tools to accurately represent solar IBRs to increase confidence in modeling of power systems. In addition, projects will experiment with design, implementation, and field demonstration of novel DSO models that consider technology development and demonstration as well as the roles and responsibilities of nontraditional stakeholders in potential distribution of electricity services and markets.
Topic Area 1: Robust Experimentation and Advanced Learning for Distribution System Operators
This topic will fund the development and demonstration of DSO models and supporting technologies to enable fast, resilient, secure, and equitable integration and operation of distributed solar PV and energy storage and maximize the value of these assets. Project teams will address the technical and market opportunities and challenges associated with the adoption of DSO models considering the characteristics of IBRs and DERs in distribution systems and their efficient operations to provide system-wide services.
Topic Area 2: Improved Simulation tools for Large-Scale IBR Transient and Dynamic Studies
This topic area is co-funded by SETO and the Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO). WETO invests in wind energy RDD&D activities that enable and accelerate the innovations needed to: • Advance offshore, land-based, and distributed wind systems • Reduce the cost of wind energy • Drive deployment in an environmentally conscious manner • Facilitate the integration of high levels of wind energy with the electrical grid.
Submission Deadline for Concept Papers: 7/25/2024 5 p.m. ET
Submission Deadline for Full Applications: 10/17/2024 5 p.m. ET
Expected Submission Deadline for Replies to Reviewer Comments: 11/18/2024 5 p.m. ET
Expected Date for EERE Selection Notifications: February 2025
Expected Timeframe for Award Negotiations: March–June 2025
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