Cooperative Agreement DEFE0031974

Special Power Sources LLC received a $199,978 project grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a tubular, proton-conducting, ceramic reversible fuel cell for high-performance energy storage. The grant-funded project will support the design and testing of a reversible solid oxide fuel cell with tubular geometry and proton-conducting ceramic components to provide efficient energy storage capabilities....

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,451 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Precision Combustion, Inc., a small R&D company located in North Haven, CT. The grant, awarded on February 18, 2025, will support the development of reversible solid oxide fuel cell (R-SOFC) systems operating at elevated temperatures for efficient power generation and hydrogen production. The key objectives are to examine the role of hydrogen...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $5,248,642.00 was granted by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development Program (CFDA 81.087). The overall objective is to fabricate and evaluate button cells and 100 cm2 solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) that exceed DOE performance targets for current density, voltage, and degradation rate. Key activities include: 1) developing high-performance oxygen...

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...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,570,309 cooperative agreement to Carnegie Mellon University on May 2, 2022 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2025. The award will support development of ionomer-free electrodes for ultrahigh power density proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Specifically, the university aims to create a mixed conducting cathode support that eliminates the separate ionomer phase currently used in...

This $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to the University of Connecticut on September 25, 2023. The award supports the development of a high-performance, metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (MS-SOFC) system for extending the range of commercial aviation. Key project milestones include designing and demonstrating 1-5 kW scale MS-SOFC stacks, fabricating 150 cm2 cells with...

This $648,431 five-year project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to unravel the oxygen electrode delamination mechanisms in reversible solid oxide cells. The goal is to overcome performance degradation challenges and enable cost-effective use of hydrogen as a clean fuel and long-term energy storage solution. The research aims to investigate the intricate interactions between...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3,750,000 Project Grant to the Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this 3-year project (9/1/2025 - 8/31/2028) is to enable world-class research in low-carbon electrochemical power production and hydrogen generation. The project will focus on developing flexible fuel cell power generation, hydrogen producing...

This $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded 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), focuses on integrating high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis (HTSE) with solar concentrator-thermal energy storage (TES) to generate green hydrogen for further use in syngas and fuel production. The project, led by the West Virginia University Research Corporation, aims to design and...

Nextech Materials, LTD. DBA Nexceris was awarded a $206,500 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to support work on the REVERSIBLE SOLID OXIDE SYSTEM DESIGN WITH INTEGRATED FOSSIL ASSETS project. The Office of Science grant aims to fund scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security. Under this award, Nexceris will deliver products...