Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009076

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...

Optimiser, LLC was awarded a $198,195 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop new methods for analyzing load-shifting measures for existing residential buildings. The goal of the project is to reduce peak energy demand, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and save money on building energy use through optimizing when appliances and systems operate in homes. The grant was awarded on June 28, 2021...

Harvest Thermal, Inc. was awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a low-emissions heating and hot water system. The 24-month project will address technical risks to enable large-scale deployment of residential heating and hot water load shifting using highly efficient heat pump systems. Harvest Thermal will systematically test system performance, reliability, and failure modes to...

This $330,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Purdue University from November 2022 through July 2025 to develop analytics and a prototype system for adaptive, human-centric coordination of demand-side flexibility at scale in electric power distribution networks. The goal is to enable actionable demand-side flexibility through adequate representation of consumer constraints and interactions with the energy system and provider. Researchers will develop learning...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Zero Home Corp in Denver, CO to develop a "PLATFORM-BASED WHOLE HOME, INTEGRATED, ACCESSIBLE SIZING TOOL TO ACCELERATE HEAT PUMP ADOPTION." The award, made under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), aims to fund the creation of an innovative sizing tool to facilitate the widespread adoption of heat pump technology for home heating and cooling. The project period runs from...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253), supports the establishment of a domestic production capacity of at least 10,000 cold climate air-to-air heat pumps, 5,000 geothermal water-to-air heat pumps, and 100 high-capacity cold climate air-to-water heat pumps annually. These products are designed to provide an efficiency increase of 25-75% compared to...

The University of Oregon was awarded a $549,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop new tools for decarbonizing space cooling and heating in buildings. The university will create marketable design software, design services, and system control hardware for dynamic passive building systems that utilize climatic resources like solar heat, cool air, and cold night skies to reduce...

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 Project Grant award, totaling $203,802, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The award will fund a 4-year research project titled "CAREER: CAS- CLIMATE: An Altruistic Game Theoretic Framework to Characterize Environmental Responsiveness of Residential Electricity Consumption" at Purdue University. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Generate new knowledge on residential customers' valuation of...

This $36,034,716 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund a partnership between the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a host transmission utility. The project aims to install an Automatic Power Factor Controller (APFC) device, the SmartValve, at an interregional grid tie to reduce tap changes and increase the control range of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST) across a regional...