Cooperative Agreement DEEE0009698

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $350,000 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) for a 3-year project to develop new tools and frameworks for optimizing the operation and benefits of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in modern power grids. The project will create stochastic modeling approaches to address short-term BESS operations, BESS bidding strategies for ancillary...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award provides $274,723 to Earthen Energy Inc. for the development of a Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage (PB-TES) system using supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as the heat transfer fluid. The project aims to create a scalable, cost-effective energy storage solution to improve grid stability and enable greater integration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Key objectives...

ZYD Energy Inc. received a $199,743 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049). The award will support MODEL-BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL AND SENSOR TECHNOLOGY FOR PHASE-CHANGE THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS from June 27, 2022 through June 26, 2023. The project aims to develop model-based predictive control and sensor technologies to optimize phase-change thermal energy storage systems, in line with the...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY), operating as SUNY at Binghamton, received a $4.2 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122). The award, effective February 1, 2026 through January 31, 2029, funds the development and demonstration of the Resilient Energy System...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded the University of Texas at Austin a $250,000 Project Grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to develop novel learning-based approaches for estimating the flexibility amount of grid edge resources (GERs) and designing equitable resource coordination and management methods. The project aims to transform the management of flexible energy resources in distribution electricity...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,700,000 Project Grant under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to the General Services Administration Greater Southwest Finance Center. This grant will fund the installation of a 6MW/13.5MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at the Federal Research Center in Silver Spring, MD. The BESS will...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) has awarded $700,000 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) at the White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, NM. This Project Grant will support the installation of a ~1MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) capable of 2MWh per cycle, one cycle per day, for 260 cycles per year with a maximum 20%...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Fourth Power, Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an energy storage technology that stores electricity as heat and converts it back to electricity using thermophotovoltaics (TPV). The goal is to create a low-cost battery system that can decouple power and energy, enabling discharge durations between 1-100 hours, which is not currently achievable with other...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4.8 million Cooperative Agreement to Premier Resource Management LLC under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to design, install, and operate a demonstration power plant integrating Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) technology with Geological Thermal Energy Storage (GEOTES) in Lost Hills, California. The project, which commenced October 1, 2025 and...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Inlyte Energy, Inc. received a $5.87 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122) to design, develop, and deploy an iron-sodium long-duration energy storage (LDES) system at a facility in San Leandro, California. The project, which commenced January 9, 2026 and concludes January 9, 2029, integrates the...