This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), provides $49,100,000 in funding to Nextera Energy Resources Development, LLC to demonstrate the viability of a zinc-bromide battery for 10+ hour energy storage and the competitiveness of a 10-hour continuous discharge system for long-duration energy storage applications. The project aims to provide tangible benefits to impacted communities and workers, advance...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $4,970,166 Project Grant under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program to the Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative. The grant aims to increase the availability of clean energy, improve energy resiliency and efficiency, and realize economic and community benefits in rural and remote communities. The project will run from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2029. The DOE's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) administers this...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $29,999,693 Cooperative Agreement to Charge Bliss, Inc. under the DOE's Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) federal grant program. The goal of the project is to increase the availability of clean energy, energy resiliency, efficiency, and local economic and community benefits to rural and remote communities. Specifically, the project will demonstrate the viability of using zinc bromine flow battery technology for long-duration energy storage...
Carbon Solutions LLC received a $199,906.04 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop pumped-storage hydropower using abandoned underground mines as an innovative energy storage technology for fossil-integrated systems. The project aims to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of utilizing abandoned underground mines to store and generate electricity through pumped-storage hydropower. By leveraging existing underground...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $90,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Mineral Basin Solar Power, LLC under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) federal grant program. The objective of this award is to demonstrate the design and construction of a fully operationalized utility-scale solar facility on former mine land, and to document the process, solutions to challenges, costs, success rates, and policy/process recommendations for replicability. The project aims to bolster local...
The Department of Energy's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) awarded a $95,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Nevada Gold Mines LLC (NGM) to construct a behind-the-meter solar PV facility supported by battery energy storage systems (BESS) at four sites across three active mine locations in northern Nevada. This project, funded under the OCED's Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), is designed to decarbonize NGM's mining operations and enhance electricity self-sufficiency...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) awarded a $5,000,000 Project Grant under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to the Maine Community Power Cooperative, Inc. The grant aims to increase the availability of clean energy, improve energy resiliency and efficiency, and realize economic and community benefits in rural and remote communities. The project will be conducted in South Paris, ME and has a performance period from October 1, 2024...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) will demonstrate an 18MW grid-tied compressed CO2 energy storage system at a retiring coal-fired power station in Pardeeville, Wisconsin. The $30.7 million award to Wisconsin Power And Light Company, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy Corporation, will fund the first-of-its-kind project in the U.S. to validate this innovative energy storage technology. The Electric...
This $199,649 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) will fund Gravity Power Inc., a for-profit organization located in Santa Barbara, CA, to develop and test a system for underground pumped hydro storage. The project period runs from July 22, 2024 to June 21, 2025. The Department of Energy's Office of Science, the primary sponsor of this fundamental research, aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $14,291,756 Cooperative Agreement to New Mexico State University (NMSU) on November 1, 2024 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The funding will support the "CARRIZO PUMPED STORAGE HYDROPOWER: SEASONAL STORAGE FOR FULLY DECARBONIZED GRIDS" project, which aims to advance pumped storage hydropower technologies to enable greater integration of renewable energy...