The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $700,414 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to the City of Duluth, Minnesota to design and deploy a geothermal heating and cooling system in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The project objectives are to: 1) Design a new geothermal system to meet 100% of the heating demand in the underserved Lincoln Park community, and 2) Develop a career pathways plan to build the workforce needed for...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $233,670 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to the City of Seward, Alaska. The funding will support the final design of a fourth-generation, community-scale, tidal source geothermal district heating and cooling system for the city. The project aims to reduce the community's dependency on heating oil and lower CO2 emissions by supplying over...
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...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $397,351 Cooperative Agreement to Kawerak, Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The funding will support the design of a new direct-use geothermal district heating and cooling (GDHC) system to provide space conditioning for tribal buildings at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Nome, Alaska. The project aims to develop a scalable GDHC system that will provide 95%...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $7,412,558 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the City of Rochester, Minnesota. The project will install geothermal wells, interconnect buildings, and transition four city buildings to 130-degree hot water, providing efficient carbon-free heating and cooling. Key activities include designing and purchasing geothermal wells, pumps, and materials,...
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $897,536 Cooperative Agreement to the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The grant objectives for Budget Period 1 are: (1) designing a technically and economically feasible low-temperature geothermal heating and cooling system for a low-income, CT environmental justice community in...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $9,000,000 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 (7Bc) to implement renewable energy projects at the General Services Administration's (GSA) Denver Federal Center campus. The project includes the installation...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program provides $9,969,135 to the Town of Rangely, Colorado to conduct a feasibility study and benefit-cost analysis for applying Cogency solar geothermal technology to power three municipal facilities. The project aims to build three interconnected microgrids to provide power and heat to the Rangely water...
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4,443,737 Cooperative Agreement to Atmoszero, Inc. of Loveland, Colorado under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program. The award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025, will fund the development of a "Flexible Industrial Heat Pump for Simultaneous Refrigeration and Steam Production." The project aims to advance innovative energy...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $43,396,987 Cooperative Agreement to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this project is to develop an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) pilot capable of producing 5 MWe of electricity. Chevron will apply innovative drilling and stimulation technologies to create an injector well and a producer well connected by fractures, with the aim of...