The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $43,396,987 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. The goal of this project is to develop a 5 MWe Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) pilot, with an injector well and a producer well connected by fractures generated through multi-zone stimulation. Chevron will apply innovative drilling and stimulation technologies to reduce...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $738,318 Cooperative Agreement to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. Over the 14-month period from October 2023 to November 2024, this funding will support EPRI in conducting planning and design for a community geothermal heating and cooling system retrofit project. The key objectives are to: 1) perform a...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), provides $40,820,924 to Fervo Energy Company to develop a triplet horizontal well enhanced geothermal system (EGS) capable of generating at least 5 MW of electric power. The key objectives of this project are to: 1) deliver the triplet EGS system with one central horizontal production...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Clemson University to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of geothermal wells at high temperature and high pressure without active cooling. The proposed technology aims to...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4,994,352 Cooperative Agreement to Brayton Energy LLC on January 1, 2025 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this project is to develop a particle media transport and storage solution that enables reliable power generation, comparing favorably to intermittent renewables like solar PV and wind coupled with battery storage. The project aims to advance...
This $30,172,334 Cooperative Agreement awarded by 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) will fund the creation of an Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) in superhot rock (SHR) on the western flank of Newberry Volcano in Oregon. The project aims to leverage the energy density of supercritical water found in the >4 km deep SHR, which could significantly reduce the costs...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $1,002,339, was granted by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program of the U.S. Department of Energy (CFDA 81.135 - Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy). The award supports a project by Eden Geopower Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, to develop electric-based mechanical and thermal stimulation technologies aimed at increasing geologic hydrogen reaction rates in the Samail ophiolite in Oman. The...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Pathways United, LLC a $199,073 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a geothermal experiential learning tool. The grant period runs from June 27, 2022 through March 26, 2023. Under this award, Pathways United will create educational resources utilizing geothermal energy to advance understanding of nature and transform the nation's energy future, directly supporting the Office of...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award with ID DEEE0010672 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The $10,032,780 award to Project Innerspace Inc., a woman-owned non-profit organization located in Marshfield, MA, aims to convene stakeholders across various constituencies to survey capabilities, expertise, objectives, and needs, then build consensus...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $715,723 Cooperative Agreement to Home Energy Efficiency Team Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this 14-month project is to develop plans to install an ambient-loop geothermal network that will deliver at least 50% of building heating and cooling needs to a site in the Framingham, Massachusetts neighborhood, with the aim of delivering clean,...
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, conducting geophysical monitoring using electric resistivity tomography, controlled-source electromagnetic, and controlled-source audio-magnetotelluric methods, updating the geothermal conceptual and reservoir models, performing rock mechanics and petrology analyses, and preparing a detailed stimulation program. Work will be conducted in collaboration with subawardees Enthalpion Energy, LLC, Geomechanics Solutions LLC, and Hotrock Energy Research Organization, who will contribute expertise in geophysics, rock mechanics, and development of a thermally degradable swellable elastomer zonal isolation system.