Date Time Share FSU Center for Advanced Power Systems to partner with City of Tallahassee on power grid research Hui Li, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, stands in the city’s solar farm west of the Tallahassee International Airport. (Mark Wallheiser/FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) Florida State University will join the City of Tallahassee and other research partners on a U.S. Department of Energy project to improve integration of solar panels into electrical grids. The project, which is funded by a $3.8 million grant from DOE as well as $1.8 million from FSU and other research partners, will develop cutting-edge technologies including electronic controls and artificial intelligence to allow power plants to better utilize solar panels with the help of a battery energy storage system (BESS). The technology could potentially lower energy costs by 10 percent or more.