The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,590,448 Cooperative Agreement to Lyten, Inc., a for-profit small business in San Jose, California, under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The objective of this award is to develop a lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cell with advanced sulfur cathodes using 3-dimensional graphene-sulfur composites. The goal is to create a Li-S battery system capable of supporting over...
Zeta Energy Corporation will receive $4.2 million through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy to develop enabling technologies for fast charging lithium metal battery architectures and sulfurized carbon cathodes. The three-year award, made under funding opportunity announcement DE-FOA-0002760 for the EVSAALL program, will support Zeta Energy's project to advance rechargeable battery technologies critical for accelerating the...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $41,665,245, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) on January 1, 2025. The award is under the DOE Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), which supports research, development, demonstration, and deployment of innovative energy efficiency and decarbonization technologies. The primary awardee, the United States Advanced Battery...
This $9,400,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program will support Resource Chemical Corp's research, development, and prototype or pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration activities focused on cross-sector approaches for industrial decarbonization. The project aims to advance the strategies outlined in DOE's Industrial...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $4,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Ecolectro Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Ithaca, NY, under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The funding supports the development of BIL-alkaline stable organic cations incorporated into rigid polymer backbones to enhance the mechanical properties of thin films. This project aims to advance materials research and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $5,437,559 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Cabot Corp, a for-profit manufacturer based in Boston, Massachusetts. The objective of this project is to develop a scalable and innovative manufacturing process to produce carbon catalyst supports for the oxygen reduction cathode in medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicle proton exchange membrane fuel cells...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,978,481 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) federal grant program to the University of South Carolina. The objective of this 1-year project is to develop mechanistic models of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cathode processes that are experimentally validated and can be used for virtual prototyping of Li-S cells. Key activities include collecting baseline Li-S...
This Cooperative Agreement award from 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 $10,950,000 award will advance the technology readiness level of ECS and catalyst production from 4 to 8, scaling...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $2,000,000.00, was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program. The overall objective is for the awardee, the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education (operating through the University of Nevada, Reno), to purchase and commission relevant equipment, train individual scientists in their operation, develop...
The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $15,213,183 Cooperative Agreement to Seerstone Development LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Provo, UT, under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The award is for a project to decarbonize electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking by using CO2-sourced graphite electrodes in EAF steelmaking processes. The project period runs from October 1, 2024 to March 31, 2026....