Project Grant 060105776

Adroit Materials, Inc. was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) to develop ion implantation-enabled fabrication of aluminum nitride (AlN) based Schottky diodes. The two-year award, issued on July 5, 2021, will support Adroit Materials' research into using ion implantation techniques to manufacture AlN-based power electronics components with improved performance over traditional silicon devices. ARPA-E's Advanced...

Active Energy Systems Inc. was awarded a $999,444 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The award will support the company's SBIR Phase II project to develop grid-scale electricity storage from waste heat over a two-year period from May 2021 through April 2023. As part of its Engineering program goal to foster innovation in engineering research and economic strength, this award...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $7,631,551 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Ionomr Innovations Inc., a foreign-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business located in Rochester, NY. The primary objective of this award is to establish domestic manufacturing capacity for high-performance and durable anion exchange membrane (AEM) solutions, with performance...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Clemson University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Oklahoma, Michigan State University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. The project aims to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,874,838 Cooperative Agreement to Aurora Flight Sciences, a Boeing company, to develop an innovative aluminum (Al) air energy storage and power generation (ESPG) system. The goal is to meet ARPA-E's PROPEL 1K program targets for zero-emissions, high energy density, and high efficiency to enable electrification across the aviation, rail, maritime, and trucking industries. The project team, which includes the University of...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $1,991,463 Cooperative Agreement to Florida International University (FIU) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) for the "Advanced Methods for Integrating Renewables in Grid Planning (ADMIRE-GRIDPLAN)" project. This project aims to develop novel methods for addressing capability gaps in existing commercial grid planning tools, such as improving variable...

This $20,295,327 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program supports Antora Energy, Inc. in scaling up its manufacturing of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells and solid-state heat engine (SSHE) technology to a 10 MW/year pre-commercial pilot level. The goal is to enable Antora to unlock the investment needed for full commercial-scale production of its combined heat and power (CHP) thermal battery system, which can...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,339,828 Cooperative Agreement under the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (CFDA 81.135) program to Emvolon, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Sharon, MA. The objective of this award is to develop chemical reactors and supporting units that can economically store at least 50% of incoming intermittent electrical energy from renewable sources, such as wind and solar, in the form...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy awarded Synteris LLC a $1.83 million cooperative agreement for the project "Breaking the Board: Bringing Three-Dimensional Packaging and Thermal Management to Power Electronics." The award, made under Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002459, will support Synteris' development of products and services to advance three-dimensional packaging and thermal management technologies for power electronics from May 9,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $4,900,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Proton Energy Systems Inc. (Proton Onsite) aims to demonstrate an optimal anion exchange membrane (AEM) configuration and operating mode to achieve DOE's performance goals of 2.0 A/cm2. The project is scheduled to run from September 1, 2024, to August 31, 2025. Proton Onsite,...