Georgia Tech is contributing to the Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) Center, a new NSF Global Center focused on addressing climate change and advancing clean energy solutions. Led by Johns Hopkins University, EPICS collaborates with institutions including Imperial College London, the University of California-Davis, the University of Strathclyde, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Melbourne, and Resources for the Future to develop the tools and strategies necessary for a transition to 100% renewable power grids.

As part of the global academic team, Georgia Tech is contributing its expertise in systems engineering, optimization, and energy systems integration. 

Pascal Van Hentenryck, the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor at Georgia Tech., the director of the NSF Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization (AI4OPT), and the director of Tech-AI, the AI hub at Georgia Tech, is bringing his expertise to the project, ensuring that the university's research will help shape the future of clean energy.

The EPICS Center's mission is to develop computing, economic, engineering, and policy methods to enable the reliable operation of power grids powered by renewable resources such as wind, solar, and energy storage. By addressing critical challenges like integrating large-scale inverters into the grid, the EPICS Center is advancing strategies for building a net-zero power grid that could serve as a model for global clean energy transformation.