Cooperative Agreement DEAR0000115

Coolcad Electronics, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of low-cost hybrid SiC/GaN-based single-stage microinverters with integrated planar magnetics technology. The project aims to deliver this technology by March 26, 2023. The award is being made through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Fourth Power, Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an energy storage technology that stores electricity as heat and converts it back to electricity using thermophotovoltaics (TPV). The goal is to create a low-cost battery system that can decouple power and energy, enabling discharge durations between 1-100 hours, which is not currently achievable with other...

Corepower Magnetics Inc. received a $199,421 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to commercialize power dense nanocomposite based rare earth-free axial flux motors. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program, listed under the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number 81.049, aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. This award...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $206,500 Project Grant to Mission Power Corp., doing business as Mission Drives, to support research and development of a magnet power supply for a tokamak fusion system. This award, provided under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), aims to advance power electronics and magnetics technologies that can strengthen U.S. energy security and economic competitiveness. As an SBA-certified HUBZone firm, Mission...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the Department of Energy, has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (University of Nebraska) under CFDA Program 81.135. The grant funding will support the University of Nebraska's development of a first-of-its-kind 10 kV high-frequency press-pack (HFPP) silicon carbide MOSFET module, referred to as "METAPAK." This module is intended to enable novel high-frequency HVDC...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to High Temperature Superconductors, Inc. (HTSI) on April 15, 2024 under the ARPA-E program (CFDA 81.135). The funding will support HTSI's efforts to increase production speeds of high-temperature superconducting coated conductors by 5 to 10 times the current levels, while simultaneously reducing their cost by a factor of ten. This project aims to advance the...

This federal Project Grant award of $182,265 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel high-current conversion technology for distributed energy resources (DERs). The project, led by Lehigh University, aims to leverage wide bandgap semiconductor devices to create a modular, multiphase, interleaved high-current conversion system. This technology is expected to enable high-power demand response and support applications such as...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC (Act), a small business manufacturer in Boulder, Colorado. The funding supports the development of high-temperature superconducting CORC (Conductor on Round Core) cables, which have applications in compact fusion reactors, particle accelerators, and electric aircraft technologies. Key objectives include...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3,274,432 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Western Michigan University. The objective of this 26-month project is to develop a 150 kilowatt traction power charger-inverter system with galvanic isolation capability. The university will conduct research and development to advance this multi-input integrated smart charger-inverter system, which can...

The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded a $199,912 project grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to American Maglev Technology of Florida, Inc. on February 22, 2021 for integration of superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems optimized with second-generation, high-temperature superconducting (2G-HTS) technology with a major fossil-fueled asset located in Houston, Texas. The Office of Science aims to advance scientific tools and...