The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $999,975 Cooperative Agreement to Louisiana State University (LSU) on February 1, 2024 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The overarching goal of this 1-year project is to develop a safe, inexpensive, and recyclable hydrogen storage and generation system based on formate dehydrogenation and bicarbonate hydrogenation reactions. The primary objective is to create...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The objective of this 1-year project is to design, fabricate, and demonstrate plasmonic photocatalysts that can be used for the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC) at ambient pressures and without...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Washington State University (WSU). This 12-month award, which began on April 1, 2024, supports WSU's research and development efforts on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. As part of this project, WSU is collaborating with the University of New Haven as a subgrantee. Together, they are...
This $4,902,057 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) aims to demonstrate the accelerated discovery, design, and laser convergent manufacturing of low-temperature (< 650°C) oxygen-conducting solid oxide electrolyzer cells (LT-O-SOEC) with a minimum active area > 15 cm2. The award will support objectives such as designing and validating novel electrolyte,...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to demonstrate low-temperature hydrogen production from proton-conducting solid oxide electrolysis cell (P-SOEC) technology. The $3,141,250 award will fund a series of activities over 3 budget periods, including materials development, interface engineering, manufacturing...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Tennessee under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2027, is for the development of low-density Fe-Mn-Al multi-principal element alloys for lightweighting automobile structural components. As part of this effort, the University of Tennessee is collaborating...
This $10,950,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) aims to accelerate the domestic manufacturing of Pajarito Powder's durable engineered catalyst support (ECS) materials and supported Pt and Pt alloy-based catalysts. The project will scale up production from 30 g/day to 4 kg/day, advancing the technology readiness level from 4 to...
This 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) provides $5,000,000 to West Virginia University Research Corporation to integrate high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis (HTSE) with solar concentrator-thermal energy storage (TES) to generate green hydrogen for further use in syngas and other fuel production. The project aims to design and validate an innovative...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $4,519,382 and issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), supports research, development, and demonstration activities under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The funding will enable the University of North Dakota (UND) to: 1) improve the efficiency, increase the durability, and reduce the cost of producing clean hydrogen using electrolyzers to less than $2 per...
This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding of $4,589,582, was granted 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 objective of this project is to develop scalable, large-format, proton-conducting solid oxide electrolyte cells (P-SOECs) to generate hydrogen at an electrolyzing current density of 1 A/cm2 at 1.3 V/cell and 550°C, with a high Faradaic efficiency...