Cooperative Agreement DEFC3607GO17070

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Realize 2050, LLC received a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), awarded November 1, 2025. The award supports the Watershed Studios by Realize 2050 initiative, a two-phase program designed to identify and commercialize dormant water power intellectual property (IP) from universities and national...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the City of Lakewood, Colorado under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117). The grant supports the city's effort to adopt and implement a Building Performance Standard (BPS) to reach net zero emissions by 2050 through a 40% site energy reduction and renewable generation requirement for buildings over 10,000...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The Center for Sustainable Energy received a $215,000 cooperative agreement from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2031. Under this award, the awardee will support the Clean Cities and Communities (CC&C) Coalitions initiative by providing stakeholder engagement, technical assistance, and outreach services within...

The City of Clearwater received a $1,996,348 Project Grant award from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. This award supports the city's implementation of its Greenprint 2.0 sustainability plan, which establishes aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets of 25% below 2007 levels by 2035 and 80% by 2050. Given that energy...

This $7,500,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy under the "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance" (CFDA 81.117) program, supports the City and County of Denver's efforts to achieve zero operational emissions for new buildings by 2030 and zero emissions for all buildings by 2040. The grant will fund a five-phase implementation plan to supplement Denver's ongoing initiatives to...

This 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 $425,309 to the University of Dayton Research Institute to develop scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-SCO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers for concentrating solar power (CSP)...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Noon Energy Inc. aims to develop a new ultra-low-cost rechargeable carbon-oxygen battery for long-duration renewable energy storage. The key objectives are to create and validate a multi-physics model of the optimized reactor, design the optimized reactor and operating conditions, and build and test several prototypes to demonstrate the...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $299,993 Project Grant to the Institute For Future Intelligence Inc. under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop innovative educational programs that engage community college and high school students in Hawaii to learn the knowledge and skills needed to address the renewable energy challenge. The project, titled "A Solar and Wind Innovation and Technology Collaborative for Hawaii (SWITCH)", aims to cultivate the next generation...

The Department of Energy awarded the City of Milwaukee a $9,000,000 Project Grant under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117). The grant aims to: 1) Reduce energy use in Milwaukee's commercial and multifamily buildings through adoption of updated building performance standards equivalent to ASHRAE 90.1-2019 and 2021 IECC, to help meet the city's greenhouse gas reduction goals; 2) Create...

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...