About the Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions

The Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions (ACES) focuses on electrification solutions across three energy-intensive sectors common to all communities: transportation, water, and buildings. 

All three of these sectors intersect with industrial, commercial, residential, and mixed-use settings and infrastructures. ACES provides:

• Research, development and test-bed solutions at the community scale to support electrification of transportation, water, and building systems through adaptations in the supporting local power grid.
• Cross-sectoral technology and policy electrification solutions that integrate diverse economic, environmental, and health goals that collectively drive outcomes for community stakeholders.
• Growth in Lehigh University’s regional and national connections through successful research, development, and demonstration projects with a portfolio of stakeholders. 

ACES is known for the novel electrification solutions and toolkits it provides to a range of communities and industries, and for its cutting-edge facilities and demonstration work and its innovative training of future energy leaders.

The Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions enables efficiency and resilience for communities via the design and operations of electricity-sheds–power grids or microgrids that locally generate power needs to supply electricity for a community.