Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008111

The Hanover County Clean Technology Innovation Center, doing business as the Dominion Energy Innovation Center, was awarded a $890,395 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) under the OTT Technology Deployment, Demonstration and Commercialization program (CFDA 81.010). The 3-year award, starting on December 20, 2024, will fund a 10-week pre-accelerator program focused specifically on supporting startups related to or supporting data...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $425,309 to the University of Dayton Research Institute to develop scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-SCO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers for concentrating solar power (CSP)...

This $275,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Community Energy Labs Inc.'s development of an advanced building management system using model predictive control and machine learning techniques. The system aims to automate complex aspects of energy-efficient building control to simplify setup and implementation for small to mid-sized commercial building owners. By reducing costs and complexity, the technology...

Criterion Energy Partners, Inc. was awarded a $206,500 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop technology accelerating industrial decarbonization. The grant-funded project aims to remove systemic hurdles to economic development through a novel technology partnership between the small business awardee and local community. The Office of Science Financial Assistance Program supports basic...

This $7.99 million project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration's BUILD TO SCALE program will fund the Clean Fight NY initiative to strengthen New York's clean energy sector. Clean Fight NY will help address structural barriers facing growth-stage clean energy companies in New York through formalizing an adoption ecosystem that maximizes regional clean energy, customer, and capital assets. Specifically, Clean Fight NY will scale its core accelerator program...

Under a $650,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program (CFDA 10.212), Community Energy Labs Inc. is developing and testing an innovative model architecture to enable affordable grid connectivity and energy management for small and mid-sized commercial buildings in rural communities. The project aims to shape energy use, reduce costs, and improve renewable integration...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance, Inc. (doing business as Venturewell), a non-profit organization based in Hadley, Massachusetts. This award, funded under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), supports Venturewell in delivering a 10-week hybrid investment readiness training program called ASCEND. The program is designed...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,073,897 Cooperative Agreement to the Georgia Institute of Technology, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University, to develop a transformative modular chemical manufacturing process that efficiently converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and intermittent electricity and hydrogen (H2) into a liquid hydrocarbon/low-oxygen organic mixture. The overall goal is to create a...

Under a $44,714,384 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (CFDA 81.255 - Clean Energy Demonstrations program) on November 25, 2024, Golden Aluminum Inc. aims to demonstrate an alternative to the energy-intensive direct-chill casting process used in aluminum production. The project, titled "Project NEXCAST - The Next Generation Aluminum Mini Mill", will produce flat-rolled, low-carbon aluminum products for automotive and packaging customers, while increasing...

Lanzatech, Inc. was awarded a $3.71 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a carbon-negative chemical production platform. Under the three-year award beginning October 2021, Lanzatech will engineer a non-traditional host strain to maximize stable ethanol production from high hydrogen-to-carbon monoxide gas uptake ratios, enabling a single-step, direct carbon dioxide gas fermentation process integrated with...