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 (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $516,258 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to the Clean Energy Economy For The Region. The funding will support the design and deployment of a fifth-generation geothermal district heating and cooling (5G) system that can initially supply 25% of the heating and cooling needs for the 32 Zero Energy District (32ZED) in Carbondale, CO and...
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'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 Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $2,500,000 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska located in Unalaska, Alaska. The grant will fund the Makushin Geothermal Project (MGP) with the overarching goal of bringing affordable, clean energy to Unalaska Island to enable economic development outside of the fishing industry. The project will involve...
The Department of Energy has awarded a $54,811,907 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to the North West Arctic Borough in Kotzebue, Alaska. The funding will be used to increase the availability of clean energy, energy resiliency, and community benefits across eleven villages in the Northwest Arctic Borough region of Alaska. Specifically, the project will develop solar photovoltaic generation, battery energy storage systems, and install residential...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,262,316 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) to the AK Longline Fishermans Association, a non-profit organization in Alaska. The objective of the project is to demonstrate three novel propulsion technologies in commercial fishing vessels and mariculture vessels in Alaska to reduce emissions by 50% in troll and gillnet fisheries, and 100% in...
The federal Project Grant award of $4,880,636.00 was provided 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 award was granted to the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative Inc. (AVEC), a non-profit electric utility serving 59 remote Alaskan communities, to support the Goodnews Bay Renewable Energy Project. The project aims to reduce diesel fuel consumption, improve grid...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $9,859,649 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to the Alaska Municipal League (AML), a non-profit organization, to improve energy efficiency in 11 school facilities across 7 rural, disadvantaged communities in Alaska. The project aims to 1) increase the energy efficiency of all school buildings to lower energy costs for local educational agencies (LEAs), 2) reduce diesel fuel consumption for power...
This $4,969,257 Department of Energy Project Grant award under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) will fund the installation of a 943 kWh battery energy storage system, solar PV, a new wind turbine, and electric thermal storage (ETS) heating units in the remote Alaskan village of Kokhanok. The project aims to transition Kokhanok's microgrid to 100% renewable energy, reducing the village's dependence on diesel fuel by an estimated 70% within the first two years. Additionally,...