Challenge and Opportunity in Grid

Electrification of as many human activities as possible has been identified as the key first step in eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels and combatting climate change. Coupled to this critical step is the integration of vast amounts of renewable energy in the creation of electric power. Thus, today’s electrical grid will have to radically evolve to supply substantially more power and handle a large portfolio of intermittent renewable power sources. This places strong demands on our power systems and the markets and policies that support them.

Featured Stories in Grid

AI Model Slashes HVAC Energy Costs While Predicting Them with Precision

A new machine learning approach developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Mons could help Read more

A State Playbook for Managing Data Center-Driven Load Growth

A report co-authored by Abe Silverman, an assistant research scholar with the Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI), that aims Read more

Cracking the Code of Caution

A team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has created a mathematical model that explores how humans make decisions when they Read more

ROSEI and UMD's Center for Global Sustainability Propose Recommendations for State's Energy Goals

Two recently released reports from the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the University Read more

Power Struggle: Managing Electricity Scarcity Efficiently Key to Avoiding Grid Outages

Research from the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) reveals how various pricing strategies in U.S. electricity markets affect the Read more

New JHU Center Aims for 100% Renewable Energy Power Grids

The Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI), in collaboration with partners from around the globe, has established a new center focused on Read more

Leadership in Grid

Participating Faculty in Grid

Technical Papers from Grid Scholars

• Yury Dvorkin
• Dennice Gayme
• Sijia Geng
• Ben Hobbs
• Enrique Mallada
• Ján Drgoňa
• Jonah Erlebacher
• Thomas Gernay
• Branko Kosović
• Michael Levien
• Julie Lundquist
• Mahdi Mehrtash
• Abe Silverman
• Chao Wang

JHU Center Aims for 100% Renewable Energy Power Grids

The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI), in collaboration with partners from around the globe, has established a new center focused on helping society transition towards 100% renewable energy for power grids.

EPICS—Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society—involves experts in academia and industry from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and has been funded for five years by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Global Centers Competition Awards. The overseas partners that will lead their respective countries’ efforts are Imperial College London (UK) and University of Melbourne (Australia).

Through its four research areas, EPICS will:

• Harness the latest advances in computer technology to enable decision-making tools to handle the unpredictable nature of renewable energy resources like wind and solar
• Find ways to accommodate wind, solar, and storage resources into the grid, which requires learning how to operate large numbers of inverters that connect these resources and the grid
• Develop economic analysis principles tailored for making decisions about how to design and then reliably operate 100% renewable power grids
• Use insights from the above efforts to develop strategies for achieving net-zero power grids globally, and use them to reduce and eventually eliminate carbon emissions from other economic sectors, including transportation and buildings

Partners in Grid

• Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST)
• Energy Systems Integration Group (ESIG)
• Future Power Market Forums (FPMF)
• Resources for the Future (RFF)
• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
• Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
• ISO New England (ISO NE)
• ISO New York (ISO NY)
• Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)
• Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
• Oklahoma Gas & Electric
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
• GE Vernova
• Amazon
• Meta
• Constellation
• Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL)
• Imperial College London
• University of Melbourne
• Georgia Tech University
• University of California-Davis
• University of Strathclyde
• University of Edinburgh
• Monash University
• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• Ben Gurion University
• New York University Policy Integrity
• University of Colorado-Boulder
• University of California-Berkeley
• Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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ROSEI Announces Selections for Inaugural ROSEI Postdoctoral Scholars Program

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From Community College to Johns Hopkins

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