The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $62,314,675 Cooperative Agreement to Ballard US Inc. on October 1, 2024 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The overall project objective is to establish a world-leading 20,000 stack manufacturing facility in the U.S. with disruptive manufacturing technology that advances the capability to reduce costs and aligns with the DOE's Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology...
The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), awarded a $13,870,505 Cooperative Agreement to Saueressig North America, Inc. to develop a high-volume production process and equipment to rotary emboss flexible graphite bipolar plates. The primary objectives are to achieve a production capacity of 2,400 plates per hour and meet DOE performance targets, including a plate durability of 25,000 hours and a cost target of $5/kW net. Key...
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...
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 platinum-based catalysts (Pt/ECS and PtX/ECS). The project will scale up production from 30 g/day to 4 kg/day to support DOE's target of 20,000 fuel cell...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $12,499,583 Cooperative Agreement to ACS Industries Inc. under CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development. The funding will support the development of an all-in-one anode pack manufacturing pilot line with three key components: 1) single-step diffusion bonding of the porous transport layer, flow field, and bipolar plate; 2) single-pass in-line physical vapor deposition coating system; and 3)...
This federal 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), provides $99,739,322 to Electric Hydrogen Co to develop and pilot an automated, plate-by-plate manufacturing process for proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer stacks. The project aims to advance the manufacturing readiness level (MRL) from 4/5 to 8/9 over the 3-year award period,...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $29,999,999 Cooperative Agreement to General Motors LLC under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The project objective is to design, build, and deploy a manufacturing system to produce 20,000 next-generation fuel cell stacks per year. The manufacturing line will consist of anode and cathode electrode processing, unitized electrode assembly, stacking, compression, and...
This $11,750,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (CFDA 81.087 Renewable Energy Research and Development) aims to establish and scale a new production supply chain for American-made electrospun gas diffusion layers (EGDLs) for hydrogen fuel cells. The primary awardee, Materic LLC, will validate the performance of its EGDLs for integration into proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and assess the...
This $5,248,642 Cooperative Agreement award, granted 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), is focused on fabricating and electrochemically evaluating solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) button cells and 100 cm2 cells. The primary objectives are to: 1) develop next-generation oxygen electrodes with high performance and minimal degradation, 2) implement oxygen and fuel...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $6,223,777, was granted 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). The primary goal is to establish and improve U.S.-based manufacturing capacity for PEMION non-PFSA ionomers and membranes, validate scalability, and increase production volume. The secondary goal is to demonstrate a fully PFSA-free catalyst coated membrane (CCM) that meets...