Amount Awarded: $20,000
To realize the ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement, a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is necessary. In order to integrate unpredictable and intermittent renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, with high fluctuations in demand due to increased electrication, a smart electricity transmission and distribution grid is paramount. However, the design of such a Smart Grid poses fundamental challenges in distributed and real-time computing. This proposal teams up experts from Norway's NTNU and USA's Berkeley to combine expertise in power systems, real-time networking, and distributed cyber-physical systems to address the problem of how to create robust, adaptive, and safe software for such systems. The Berkeley team brings expertise with distributed real-time software, and the NTNU team brings expertise with real-time networks and with power systems. Both teams have established relationships with the power-systems industry. The teams also have a strong track record of working together and have considerable momentum towards the goals of this project.