"Eilyan Bitar, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering in Cornell Engineering; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics; and Ayshwarya Subramanian, assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences, are recipients of funding from Phase II of the Bezos Earth Fund's AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge."
"By turning EVs into flexible grid assets, Bitar's project will accelerate the decarbonization of both the power grid and transportation sectors by developing AI-powered forecasting, aggregation and decision-making tools to coordinate the real-time charging and discharging of millions of spatially distributed EVs - replacing expensive stationary batteries with a nimble, decentralized network of batteries on wheels. "Most EVs are parked more than 95% of the time," said Bitar,"
Phase II funding from the Bezos Earth Fund's AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge supports Cornell efforts to scale AI solutions for major environmental problems. Eilyan Bitar received $1.8 million to explore using electric vehicles as a flexible, dispatchable network of mobile energy storage to strengthen and decarbonize the power grid. The project focuses on AI-powered forecasting, aggregation, and decision-making to coordinate real-time charging and discharging of millions of spatially distributed EVs, substituting expensive stationary batteries with a decentralized network of vehicle batteries. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Ayshwarya Subramanian also received support to advance AI-enabled conservation and biological applications.
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