Our project entitled “Pythias Decision Framework” has been renewed with an additional fund of $102,317 for Year-2, which makes the total project funding to be $200,936 (UH) with an indirect cost rate of 16% for two years.

The UH team consists of the PI Dr. Xingpeng Li from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), and Co-PI Dr. Hongyi Li from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UH.

This is a two-year (05/2021 - 04/2023) project with a total funding of $600,000. The lead institute is Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC); three other participating institutes are UH, Iowa State University and Lehigh University.

This project is to analyze climate-related risks in power system expansion planning by developing a novel Pythias framework that integrates complex physical and socioeconomic models into a decision-making model.