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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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Initial Amendment Date: | August 23, 2016 |
Latest Amendment Date: | August 23, 2016 |
Award Number: | 1636818 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
Program Manager: |
Beth Plale
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
Start Date: | September 1, 2016 |
End Date: | August 31, 2018 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $99,533.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $99,533.00 |
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Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211 AMHERST NY US 14228-2577 (716)645-2634 |
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NY US 14260-7003 |
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NSF Program(s): | BD Spokes -Big Data Regional I |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
This project is to conduct the planning needed to develop a Big Data Spoke focused on energy sector innovations using big data. The project group will bring together interests and strengths on building and data center energy usage informatics, grids and demand management and alternate and future energy sources along with storage methodologies. The primary outcomes of the project will be the development of a series of partnerships to leverage new and existing data science methodologies and inspire new research on such methodologies driven by the core needs of the energy sector. The project will focus the setup of these partnerships using the well-defined problems arising from utility provisioning for a brown-field redevelopment in the South Buffalo area that is a critical part of the transformative economic resurgence currently underway. Spoke planning activity will take the form of a series of "mini-workshops" that define the needs followed by a series of "consulting engagements" to be supported by project personnel and partners that can address needs in different aspects of the challenge problem. The engagement of private sector (utility companies, brownfield investors and tenants), non-governmental organizations and academics (from 6 universities across the region) will provide a clear understanding of capabilities and issues at the end of the planning exercise. The Northeast Big Data Hub will provide essential support in forming these partnerships, logistics for the engagement processes and providing access to the skills in many core areas like data sharing, ethics, privacy and education.
The Project will support brownfield redevelopment that will revitalize large swaths of Buffalo will have an immediate impact on the economic well being of upstate New York and the region. Many communities commonly encounter the issues involved in such development and our solutions will have a large set of beneficiaries in the long term. The successful formation of the many partnerships needed to accomplish this will then go on to serve many other communities in the data and information needs of the energy sector in the North east and beyond. There will also be a large engagement of students and early career professionals from the universities involved.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Project engaged in planning activities related to the formation of a spoke in the North East Big Data Hub with a focus on energy related activities. The spokes are designed to operate in support of the overall Big Data Hub program with foci related to areas of interest to the community in each of the zones. Spokes are designed to support specific needs of particular communities with partnerships among universities and others tailored to the community.
Template interactions of such an organization with industry and university and the ability of this organization to coordinate interactions between industry and university were explored. The increasing importance of the use of renewables in the grid and the need for many parts of the North East to support effective revitalization of brownfields provided the focus for the efforts here. Project partnered the major utility in the Buffalo, NY area with Big Data Skills among the faculty at the University at Buffalo to support the reinvention of a large brownfield proximal to Buffalo city that was a target for significant state and city investment. Two projects were defined with clear deliverables and timelines. One related to optimal planning of the local grid forecasting demand using a variety of demand sources extending and customizing several open source tools that the utility personnel were then trained on. The second project used existing tools to check the current grid design for correctness and suitability for the loads and generation planned. While, the particular efforts supported here were successful difficulties in the political environment have slowed down the state and city investment and the utility did not proceed to acting on project outcomes and the while effort did not yield the best results possible and these did not therefore make a good template for future hub and spoke interaction. Clear commitment of partners to project outcomes and risk management to account for such eventualities were important learnings from this effort.
Outcomes will guide future development of Big Data Hubs sponsored by NSF.
Last Modified: 04/13/2019
Modified by: Abani K Patra
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