Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009282

This $30,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) aims to deploy three community-scale bioenergy systems in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The project performer, West Biofuels LLC, will transform 28,000-35,000 dry tons per year of forest biomass residuals into 3 MW of renewable electricity and biochar soil amendments at each of the three sites in the communities of Burney, Mariposa, and Mammoth...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), will fund a $17,547,861 project to design, install, and demonstrate a 250 kW solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) system. The project aims to advance the SOEC technology from TRL 4 to TRL 6 by integrating it with an existing 1.6 million ton per year direct reduction of iron (DRI)...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $2,602,145 Cooperative Agreement to Combustion Science & Engineering, Inc. on November 1, 2024 under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The award supports the development of a fuel-flexible regenerative low NOx industrial hydrogen burner, a critical technology for advancing energy efficiency and decarbonization in industrial processes. The 18-month project period runs...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, is for the conceptual design of an oxy-fuel combustion system to retrofit existing rotary lime kilns. The $312,500 project, awarded to Electricore Inc., aims to enhance the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of lime production. A sub-award of this grant was provided to...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Forest Concepts LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Auburn, Washington. The grant, titled "PARTICLE-LEVEL DENSIFICATION OF BULK BIOMASS MATERIALS TO REPLACE PELLETIZED FUELS AND FEEDSTOCKS," aims to support research and development into advanced biomass densification technologies. The project, which will run from July 22, 2024, to March 21, 2025, seeks to transform bulk biomass...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $6,042,305 cooperative agreement to 8 Rivers Capital, LLC for Phase 2 of the FLECCS program. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the UNO Mk 3 carbon capture process on natural gas combustion emissions at the National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama. This is intended to reduce technical risks and accelerate commercialization of the UNO Mk 3 process for gas turbines. The 3-year project period runs from...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, will develop and validate a 100-kW flexible combined heat and power (CHP) system capable of operating on a range of low-carbon fuels, including 100% hydrogen, hydrogen-pipeline-natural-gas blends, and biogas. The $5,625,000 award, with a performance period from Aug 1, 2024 to Jan 31, 2026, will...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $2,568,750 Cooperative Agreement to Stanford University under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The purpose of this award is to develop an "Ultra-Efficient Porous-Media Combustion Technology for H2-Based Combustion in Process Heating". Stanford University has issued a $306,588 sub-award to RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies Research Center to support...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) awarded a $1,619,426 Cooperative Agreement to RTX Corporation's Raytheon Technologies Research Center to advance the technology readiness level of an electrochemically activated oxygen sorbent and reactor system. The project aims to develop a scalable, efficient, and durable electrochemical oxygen separation technology to enable high-quality syngas production and carbon capture for hydrogen production...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,788,621 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois for the "HIGH EFFICIENCY, SOLID STATE MICROWAVE-POWERED HYDROGEN PLASMAS FOR USE IN DIRECT REDUCTION OF TACONITE ORE AND ORE CONCENTRATES IN A ROTARY KILN FURNACE" project. This 3-year project, with a start date of August 15, 2024, will develop a microwave-powered hydrogen plasma rotary kiln process for directly reducing iron ore...