Cooperative Agreement DEEE0002837

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $30,172,334 Cooperative Agreement on October 1, 2024 to Mazama Energy, Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). This project will create an Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) in over 4 km deep rock with temperatures of 425°C or greater, where the conditions allow for supercritical water that can have higher energy densities than normal water. This is expected...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports Reaction Engineering International (REI) in developing "A NOVEL SYSTEM TO MEASURE THE LIQUID/VAPOR FRACTION IN A GEOTHERMAL PRODUCTION WELL IN REAL-TIME." REI, a Utah-based R&D consulting firm, will work on this project from February 2024 through February 2025. The grant aims to advance geothermal energy technology by...

The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $7,771,475 cooperative agreement to Patua Acquisition Company, LLC from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (81.087) program. The award supports efforts to increase power generation at the Patua Nevada geothermal field through targeted and adaptive enhanced geothermal system techniques. Key products and services include reprocessing legacy geophysical data,...

Eden Geopower Inc. was awarded a $3,271,671 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program. The three-year award will support Eden Geopower's development of an electro-hydraulic fracturing technology for enhanced geothermal systems. Their proposed concept involves using electric currents to selectively increase permeability in targeted fractures. This is intended to stimulate a larger reservoir volume without reducing fluid...

Oceanit Laboratories Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop metamaterials for geothermal well integrity monitoring. The project is being conducted under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under this award, Oceanit will develop metamaterials...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of a multiphysics model to simulate flow and thermal processes of a novel 3D heat pulse groundwater flowmeter. The $110,800 award to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the Nevada System of Higher Education will fund activities to: 1) provide modeling support for the design of a flow tank to evaluate and validate the 3D...

New England Research, Inc. was awarded a $198,411 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research titled "Integrated Characterization and Modeling of Subsurface Properties Critical to Geothermal Energy Storage in Sedimentary Reservoirs." The grant period runs from February 21, 2023 through December 20, 2023. Under this award, New England Research will perform work in White River...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,925 Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, titled "UTEAM: Underground Thermally Enhanced and Architected Metamaterials," aims to develop a novel, cost-effective, and easily deployable shallow geothermal heat exchanger (GHE) system. The research will integrate microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation...

This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under the 81.135 CFDA program for the Department of Energy, to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) in the amount of $719,933. The project, titled "Subsurface Engineering Solutions and Management for Sustainable In-Situ Hydrogen Production and Economic Extraction", will integrate tasks on subsurface engineering, economic extraction modeling, downhole gas...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $197,407 Project Grant to Zonge International, Inc., a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Tucson, Arizona, under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The grant, awarded on July 22, 2024, supports the development of an "Airborne Drone Electromagnetic System for Advanced Data Collection for Geothermal Exploration." Zonge International, Inc. specializes in geophysical services and...