FEEDER – Foundations for Engineering Education for Distributed Energy Resources:
- Consortium of 8 universities, including University of Kentucky (UK), 2 national laboratories, 8 utilities and 11 industrial companies
- Objectives are to accelerate the deployment of distributed power systems technologies through innovative research, cross-institutional highly-collaborative education of the current and future workforce, partnering with public and private entities in energy systems and smart grid, and leveraging well-designed and complementary research, development, test, analysis, and evaluation
FEEDER Courses developed and thought at UK include:
- Global Energy Issues – Drs. Larry Holloway, Bruce Walcott, and Dan M. Ionel
- Solar Power – Drs. Vijay Singh and Don Colliver
- Smart Grid: Automation and Control of Power Systems – Dr. Liao Yuan
Example of current national initiatives:
- Cyber-security of energy infrastructure
- In August 2016, the department of Energy announced awards to 12 projects of $34 million to enhance the reliability and resilience of the nation’s energy critical infrastructure and to demonstrate cyber-security solutions.