Jay Clemens
Seven research teams have received $3.3 million in total funding to develop technologies for sustaining and operating the state of New York’s electric grid.
The recipients submitted proposals demonstrating the performance and resiliency of the electric power delivery system in New York before they obtained the awards, the NYC Press Office said Wednesday.
“These projects will improve grid resiliency, strengthen utility performance and make the delivery of energy more efficient,†said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems Training received $300,000 in funding to develop an aerial weather damage assessment system, Cornell University got $227,000 to integrate smart building controls into a campus microgrid and Rochester Institute of Technology obtained $78,000 to build utility-microgrid cooperation controls.
Brookhaven National Laboratory also received $250,000 to develop a storm-prediction model program that uses radar data in collaboration with Electrical Distribution Design, Orange and Rockland Utility and Central Hudson Gas & Electric.
Potsdam, New York-based Clarkson University will work with the National Grid, General Electric and SUNY Potsdam to design a microgrid system under a $381,000 funding.
ClearGrid Innovations has partnered with Con Edison to design a three-dimensional imagery for electric grid problem analysis functions under a $100,000 funding.
Con Edison obtained $2 million to demonstrate a non-synchronous microgrid system in partnership with Pareto Energy and GE.
