ACES will lead coordinated, efficient electrification technology and policy solutions at the nexus of water, transportation, buildings, and supporting power grid to secure energy systems in a range of communities, and will also engage diverse stakeholders to ensure high-efficacy solutions, reducing time and risk for communities while accelerating impact.
The ACES approach includes cutting-edge research, reducing community energy use and its carbon footprint, empowering communities, training future leaders, and supporting an interdisciplinary collaborative ecosystem. Its key mechanism is the electricity shed, related to the Department of Energy's "energy shed," derived from "watershed," which conceptualizes the community as a region where the supporting power grid (or microgrid) resources provide locally generated electricity to meet the electric needs for buildings, transportation, and water systems while accommodating local stakeholder concerns.
Help a diverse range of communities translate energy efficiency and resilience goals to reality through cross-sectoral electrification.
Innovate grid solutions and electrification of critical services across buildings, water, and transportation systems to support efficient economy-wide electricity sheds.
Accelerate the transition to electric end-uses and cleaner energy sources through community electrification projects.
Engage with stakeholders on their diverse electrification efforts and needs and secure funding to support community electrification RD&D.
Develop future leaders trained to tackle efficient, equitable electrification solutions through engagement with relevant stakeholders.
Leverage Lehigh's expertise and facilities through interdisciplinary connections across engineering, data science, economics, policy, social sciences, environmental sciences, and population health.
Center for Advancing Community Electrification Solutions helps build energy infrastructure.