This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $4,994,352 to Brayton Energy LLC, a small disadvantaged business, to develop a particle media transport and storage solution for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems. The goal is to create a reliable power generation technology that can scale storage duration independently of the power...
Under this $425,309 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), the University of Dayton Research Institute will produce scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-supercritical CO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers. The project aims to...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $399,997 Cooperative Agreement to the Colorado School of Mines under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The award will support the design and fabrication of catalyst particles for stream and dry reforming processes to meet the requirements of a solar fluidized bed reactor. The project includes the design and fabrication of a lab-scale solar fluidized bed reactor,...
The University of Tennessee received a $812,500 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) to develop an integrated cascaded heat exchanger system. The system is designed to enhance electricity generation through a supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) Brayton cycle as well as provide high-temperature (300°C) steam and pressurized water (150°C) for industrial process...
This $5,000,000 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) focuses on integrating high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis (HTSE) with solar concentrator-thermal energy storage (TES) to generate green hydrogen for downstream syngas and fuel production. The project, which has a target performance level of "Tier 2. Develop, Design,...
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research Division, doing business as UCF, was awarded a $590,000.00 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research on the "Rational Design of Synthesizable High-Entropy Materials". The project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in materials research. The award...
The University of Central Florida (UCF) was awarded a $1,868,887 Cooperative Agreement 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). The primary objective of this 2-year project is to develop a printable copper metallization process that outperforms conventional silver pastes for silicon heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) cells. The team aims to achieve PV cell efficiencies...
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...
This $5,400,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to address the challenges of durability, scalability, and efficiency in perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules. The project, led by Cubicpv Inc., a for-profit company based in Bedford, Massachusetts, will focus on improving perovskite ink purity, buried interfaces, and defective surface...
The Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a $10,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Florida International University (FIU) under the Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 12.630) to establish the Center for Integrated Renewable Energy and Energy Storage (CIREES). Through this 5-year award, FIU will lead a collaborative research effort with Pennsylvania State University (PSU) to develop renewable energy generation and energy storage technologies...