Cooperative Agreement FC2604NT42319

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) provides $4,692,212 to assist states in adopting enhancements to the residential chapter of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), putting them on a pathway to net-zero energy and emissions for new homes. The key products and services to be delivered include: (1) developing three sets of IECC code amendments (Zero Ready, Near Zero, and Zero); (2)...

The Center for Energy and Environment (CEE) was awarded a $812,429 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) on October 1, 2023. The award will support CEE's research and development of innovative aerosol sealing techniques for occupied residential buildings to improve energy efficiency. Key activities include assessing the feasibility of air source heat...

The National Science Foundation awarded Resolved Analytics, PLLC a $977,576 cooperative agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to further develop and demonstrate a novel ground-loop heat exchanger solution for reducing the initial costs of ground-source heat pump systems. The company will refine computational modeling tools to more accurately size heat exchanger systems on a site-specific basis using sophisticated geospatial datasets. It will validate the tools by...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded C-Crete Technologies LLC a $2,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089). The project aims to develop a low-cost, high-yield, and scalable process to mineralize carbon dioxide (CO2) into a specialized formulation of carbon-negative concrete. C-Crete Technologies will apply advanced synthesis, green chemistry, and standard concrete testing and scale-up...

Impact Cooling Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop a novel high-density data center cooling solution. The two-year award, made under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0001954 on September 30, 2022, will support Impact Cooling's proposed use of jet impingement cooling technology to achieve dramatically improved heat transfer efficiency using only air. If successful, this technology could...

Carbon Solutions LLC received a $199,906.04 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 22, 2021 to develop pumped-storage hydropower using abandoned underground mines as an innovative energy storage technology for fossil-integrated systems. The project aims to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of utilizing abandoned underground mines to store and generate electricity through pumped-storage hydropower. By leveraging existing underground...

PD3 Technologies, Inc. was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a Modular Intelligent Ventilation Platform for new and existing residential building ventilation. The grant will support the design and testing of a smart ventilation system to improve indoor air quality and energy efficiency in homes. The system is intended to allow for real-time monitoring and control of...

The Roanoke Cement Company, LLC (RCC) was awarded a $61,700,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). The project aims to construct and operate a first-of-its-kind calcined clay production line in the United States to manufacture Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) using a flash calciner technology. The calcined clay will replace a significant portion of the cement clinker, reducing the carbon intensity of the...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) awarded a $410,000 Project Grant under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) to the Center For Applied Research & Technology, Inc. (Cart) to conduct research and develop prototype architectural components using coal-derived composite materials. As part of this Phase 1 project titled "Bluefield Battery Prototyping Laboratory", Cart will leverage its expertise in...

The University of Alaska Anchorage was awarded a $1.29 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop cellulose-mycelium composite insulation materials that sequester carbon from the atmosphere. With the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as the project lead via an interagency agreement with the USDA, this three-year award beginning January 12, 2023 seeks to fabricate net carbon negative insulation composites with...