The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University on January 1, 2025 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The project aims to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of geothermal wells at high temperature and high pressure without active cooling....
This $800,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded on January 18, 2025 by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, aims to advance energy-efficient, high-performance computing (HPC) by optimizing Cerebras Systems Inc.'s Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) technology. The key objectives include developing and benchmarking Krylov subspace solvers and preconditioners for single and multi-wafer WSE architectures, with the goal...
This $31,262,296 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) aims to demonstrate the feasibility of safely converting a mature oil and gas field in the Permian Basin into a dedicated carbon dioxide (CO2) storage facility. The key objectives are to: 1) further validate the subsurface characterization, storage capacity, and technical/economic performance to inform the final...
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...
This $9.4 million 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 fund research, development, and prototype or pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration activities focused on cross-sector approaches for industrial decarbonization. The award recipient, Resource Chemical Corp, will explore strategies to increase efficiency and...
The federal Project Grant award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), provides $206,500.00 to Cyentech Consulting LLC to develop a "Novel and Rugged Electromagnetic Wireless System for Long-Term Subsurface CO2 Plume Monitoring and Saturation Mapping". This 1-year project, starting on February 18, 2025, aims to create advanced software tools and modeling capabilities to support energy exploration and production activities,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) provides $6,252,775 to Electricore Inc., a non-profit organization, for the field deployment of three demonstration units to validate methane emission mitigation capacity at low-producing well sites with no access to power. The objective of this 32-month project is to demonstrate the full-scale validation of methane...
This $4,902,057 federal 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 goal is to achieve or exceed performance targets of ≥ 1.2A/cm2 at 1.3...
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $200,000.00 to Airflow Sciences Corp, a for-profit engineering consulting firm, to develop a Geothermal Flow Rate and Liquid/Vapor Fraction Measurement System. The award, effective February 12, 2024, supports the company's expertise in computational fluid dynamics, physical testing, and instrumentation development to address challenges in geothermal...
This Project Grant award of $200,000.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to KJT Enterprises, Inc., a small disadvantaged business located in Houston, TX. The funding supports research on "ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MONITORING FOR GEOLOGIC CO2 STORAGE WITH MEASUREMENT ENHANCEMENT WITH IMPROVED ANOMALY RESOLUTION". The project period runs from February 18, 2025 to February 17, 2026....