Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008785

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded Perseus Materials Inc. a $498,767 Project Grant to develop a new composite fabrication process for manufacturing wind turbine blades. The goal is to create variable cross-sectional wind turbine blades using an innovative casting technique. This 2-year project, which started on October 19, 2023, aims to deliver a transformative solution that can enhance the efficiency and performance of wind...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a magnetically integrated electric drive system with a rare-earth-free, brushless wound-field flux-switching (WFFS) motor. The $526,878 award, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to February 28, 2029, supports research to optimize the motor design, co-design the motor and inverter for high torque density and thermal performance, and accurately quantify motor and...

This Project Grant awarded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), under CFDA 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, provides $500,000.00 to Purdue University to develop an Optically Powered Ultra-High-Speed (OPUS) Wound-Field Synchronous Generator integrated with an optical encoder for position estimation. The purpose of this 2-year award, with a start date of June 25, 2025 and an end date of June 24, 2027, is to maximize the power density, reliability, and power...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $6,616,916 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to GE Vernova Operations LLC, operating as the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center. The overall objective of the "Grid-Ready Wind" project is to demonstrate the ability of utility-scale wind power plants to provide traditional and emerging grid services, in both grid-following and grid-forming...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,108,901 Cooperative Agreement to the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), doing business as ABS Americas, to develop an ultraflexible smart floating offshore wind turbine. The project, which runs from January 1, 2024 to November 13, 2027, will involve collaboration with two sub-awardees, The Floating Wind Technology Company, LLC, and Front Energies, LLC. Through this award, ABS and its partners aim...

This Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities (IA) program, CFDA 47.083, provides $149,980 to the University of Maine System to conduct research on the orbital motion dynamics of offshore wind turbines (OWTs) during the installation phase. The interdisciplinary project team will investigate the unique dynamics of partially installed bottom-fixed OWTs using wave tank experiments and high-fidelity numerical...

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...

This $19,453,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) was made to Kent Houston Offshore Engineering LLC for the project titled "Passively Controlled Floating Wind Platforms for Low-Cost Energy". The award will fund the company's development of innovative floating wind turbine platforms designed to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy generation. The project aims to advance floating...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation will fund the development of a level-set-based, multi-physics and multi-material topology optimization software for electric machine design. The $550,000 award, made under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, will support work at Stony Brook University from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The software aims to improve electric generator and motor designs through parametric topology optimization of magnets. This will...

The National Science Foundation awarded Activecharge LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an integrated, self-powered sensor node for wind turbine blade monitoring. The one-year project will address technical hurdles such as lack of reliable energy sources and logistical challenges replacing batteries inside blades. Activecharge will prototype a sensor node that reliably harvests electrical voltage from blade...