Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009328

Coolcad Electronics, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of low-cost hybrid SiC/GaN-based single-stage microinverters with integrated planar magnetics technology. The project aims to deliver this technology by March 26, 2023. The award is being made through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools...

Mission Power Corp. 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 a low-cost, high frequency inverter for utility-scale photovoltaic systems. The grant will support Mission Power Corp.'s work to design and test a prototype inverter at its Potsdam, New York facility between June 2022 and March 2023. By funding this research and development effort, the DOE aims to advance...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) awarded a $9,145,394 Cooperative Agreement to Portland General Electric Company to demonstrate grid services using a combination of grid-forming (GFM) and grid-following (GFL) inverter-based renewable technologies at the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Oregon. The 3-year project, which commenced on October 1, 2023, will integrate GFM control into a portion of the existing wind and battery...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded a $135,956 project grant to South Dakota State University (SDSU) to develop a highly efficient, modular, and scalable power system that integrates photovoltaic, energy storage, and smart micro-inverter technologies. The goal is to create a novel power conversion system architecture and control capabilities to enable greater penetration of solar energy into the electric grid and support grid stability and resilience. The key...

This $270,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of grid-forming inverter technologies to advance the energy transition and increase renewable energy grid integration. A joint team from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Central Florida will optimize grid-forming voltage control, develop advanced three-port microinverters with black start and islanded operation capabilities, and design innovative...

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) aims to develop and demonstrate advanced tools for inverter-based resource (IBR) power plants and utilities. The $3,430,784 project, which runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, will deliver: (1) efficient data collection, processing, and streaming systems to capture fast grid dynamics; (2)...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $280,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at Austin under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The award will support research and development of grid-forming inverter technologies to advance the energy transition and increase renewable energy grid integration. Key deliverables include optimization of grid-forming voltage control loops; development of advanced functionalities for three-port microinverters integrating solar, storage and...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3,274,432 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Western Michigan University. The objective of this 26-month project is to develop a 150 kilowatt traction power charger-inverter system with galvanic isolation capability. The university will conduct research and development to advance this multi-input integrated smart charger-inverter system, which can...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the Department of Energy, has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (University of Nebraska) under CFDA Program 81.135. The grant funding will support the University of Nebraska's development of a first-of-its-kind 10 kV high-frequency press-pack (HFPP) silicon carbide MOSFET module, referred to as "METAPAK." This module is intended to enable novel high-frequency HVDC...

This $98,662,016 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience program (CFDA 81.254) will fund Switched Source LLC to deploy distribution-level power flow controllers, specifically the Phase-EQ technology, to a large utility at scale. The goal is to incorporate this power flow control solution into the utility's planning and operational practices, with the primary objective of increasing the utility's load serving capacity. This will...