, assistant professor in the 91探花Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has received a $4.9 million grant across three years from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The award is part of for 75 research projects to advance technologies to help lower solar electricity costs, boost manufacturing, reduce administrative red tape and make solar energy systems more resilient to cyberattacks.
The 91探花project will develop two new kinds of controls for managing solar energy systems that will be immune to communication outages and compatible with small solar energy systems as well as the power grid.
The grants were announced by the Energy Department’s on behalf of the . The project team will collectively provide an additional required $2.1 million “cost share total,” to bring the total to $7 million.
Johnson is the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor of Clean Energy and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He is a faculty member of the 91探花Clean Energy Institute.
To learn more, contact Johnson at brianbj@ece.uw.edu.