ARPA-E
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Vanderbilt to collaborate on $4.8M ARPA-E microgrid control project
Vanderbilt computer engineers will collaborate with colleagues at North Carolina State University on a new $4.8 million project to develop technology to co-design and control microgrids. The award was among 68 grants exceeding $175 million recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. Read MoreFeb 17, 2022
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Vanderbilt researchers extend software-development efforts for sustainable microgrids through $2.5 million Department of Defense project
Vanderbilt leading green energy project to better manage microgrids, local energy systems, funded by the Department of Defense. Read MoreSep 15, 2020
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$3.3 million project aims to transform grid management with risk metrics for renewables
The goal of the project—Risk-Aware Market Clearing—is a blueprint for an end-to-end, data-driven approach that balances cost and minimizes system-level risk. Market clearing is the process that keeps the supply level to the demand with no leftover of either. Read MoreJun 17, 2020
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Vanderbilt School of Engineering, partners awarded $3.5 million from ARPA-E for transformational energy technology
A new $3.5 million award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy will support Vanderbilt University School of Engineering researchers' and their partners' efforts to create software that can control the Smart Grid – a decentralized power system that is more efficient, sustainable and reliable than America’s current electrical power delivery. Read MoreNov 25, 2015
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Seeking game-changing energy technologies
Arun Majumdar is the first director of the Department of Energy's ARPA-E (Zach Goodyear / Vanderbilt University) “Gentlemen, we have run out of money. It’s time to start thinking.” This quote, attributed to the New Zealand physicist Ernest Rutherford, summarizes the main point of the presentation that… Read MoreNov 11, 2011