NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing smart grid technologies in the Pacific Northwest
Portland, Oregon | Photo by NashCo
Our Regional Innovation Engines Development Award will achieve energy equity and prosperity through an ecosystem characterized as Smart, EQUitable, INteroperable and Secure.
The SEQUINS mission is to be an engine of regional innovation by coordinating and connecting the activities of academic institutions, new and established businesses, risk capital, and governments across the Pacific Northwest.
SEQUINS partners will innovate smart energy products and services based on the principles that technology must be dependable and safe, and under a common socio-technical framework.
Anticipated Outcomes
The SEQUINS ecosystem will innovate products and services for open, equitable, secure, and trustworthy information exchange networks, with an emphasis on interoperability principles that specify private and trustworthy information exchange among participants. SEQUINS will promote development and innovation through five Engine Activities:
Entrepreneurship and business development
Use-inspired research and development, cyber-physical security, and end-user research
Interoperability and standardization
Consulting, advocacy, and policy support
Workforce development
Broader Impacts
The SEQUINS ecosystem will foster the growth of a regional smart grid technology ecosystem that enables large-scale participation within energy exchange networks based on open communication protocols, customer-driven transactions, privacy protection, state-of-the-art cybersecurity, and open-to-all practices.
Together, these features will enable dynamic operation of energy assets that prioritize national energy security, reduce critical infrastructure vulnerability to climate-driven events, and provide universal energy equity.
Key Personnel
Robert Bass, Associate Professor | Portland State University
Antonie Jetter, Associate Dean for Research | Portland State University
Birol Yesilada, Professor Hatfield School of Government, Director Cybersecurity & Cyber Defense Policy | Portland State University
Tong Zhang, Assistant Dean of Inclusive Innovation | Portland State University
Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Associate Head of Graduate Programs | Oregon State University
Vincent Immler, Assistant Professor | Oregon State University
Jaime Kolln, Power Systems Engineer | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Melissa Appleyard, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs | Portland State University
Jun Li, Director, Center for Cyber Security and Privacy | University of Oregon
Yingjiu Li, Professor |University of Oregon
Greg Dotson, Professor, Knight School of Law | University of Oregon
David Archer, Principal Scientist | Galois, Inc.
James Mater, General Manager-Smart Grid | QualityLogic, Inc.
Mark Osborn, Senior Technology Advisor | QualityLogic, Inc.