The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $29,999,693 Cooperative Agreement to Charge Bliss, Inc. under the Clean Energy Demonstrations Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.255). The award supports efforts to increase the availability of clean energy, energy resiliency, efficiency, and local economic and community benefits in rural and remote communities. Specifically, the project aims to demonstrate the viability of using zinc bromine flow battery technology for long-duration energy storage and...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $14,106,880 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Urban Electric Power Incorporated (UEP) to deploy two long-duration energy storage systems (LDESS) using UEP's patented rechargeable zinc-manganese dioxide battery technology. UEP is teaming with the New York Power Authority (NYPA) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to manufacture the 600kW, 12-hour LDESS units at UEP's Pearl River, NY...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $18,796,716 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Smartville Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to demonstrate modular, scalable long-duration energy storage systems composed of repurposed electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries. The project aims to provide EV charging, grid resiliency, and educational outreach in disadvantaged communities in South Carolina and Louisiana. As part of this...
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $28,091,769 Cooperative Agreement to Dairyland Power Cooperative under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to demonstrate the viability of a 10+ hour vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) for long-duration energy storage applications. The project aims to (1) prove the competitiveness of a 10-hour continuous discharge VRFB system, (2) provide tangible benefits to impacted communities and advance opportunities for underrepresented workers...
The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $30,700,000 Cooperative Agreement to Wisconsin Power And Light Company, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation, under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). The award will support the Columbia Energy Storage Project, which will demonstrate an 18MW grid-tied compressed CO2 energy storage system at the site of a retiring coal-fired power plant. This first-of-its-kind project in the U.S. aims to validate the performance of this...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $95,110,492 Cooperative Agreement to Nanoramic, Inc. (doing business as Nanoramic Laboratories) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications federal grant program (CFDA 81.253). The funding will support the establishment of a low-carbon, all-water-based stationary storage battery plant based on Nanoramic's proprietary neocarbonix electrode technology. The project aims to advance domestic manufacturing...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $10,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Rejoule Incorporated, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). The project aims to demonstrate the viability and competitiveness of using repurposed lithium-ion batteries for long-duration energy storage applications. The key objectives are to build an American-made repurposed battery supply chain, provide tangible benefits to impacted...
This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Noon Energy Inc. aims to develop a new ultra-low-cost rechargeable carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration renewable energy storage. The key objectives are to create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, design the optimized reactor and operating conditions, and build and test several prototypes to demonstrate the...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Zeta Energy Corp. a $4,574,903 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The objective of this 1-year project, starting August 1, 2024, is to produce high-capacity lithium-ion battery cells that can maintain their energy storage capacity at room temperature. Zeta Energy Corp., a for-profit manufacturer located in Houston, Texas, will focus on...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under CFDA Program 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development, aims to collect data from an existing utility-scale direct current (DC)-coupled photovoltaic (PV)-plus-storage plant, prepare the data for public sharing, and provide analyses on solar resource, plant performance, and battery degradation. The $249,984 award, granted on May 1, 2024,...