Project Grant 9000116306

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $104.68 million Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.087 - Renewable Energy Research and Development) to Thyssenkrupp Nucera USA, Inc. on October 1, 2024. The overall project objective is to research, develop, and demonstrate an innovative, highly automated manufacturing and assembly pilot factory for scaling liquid alkaline (LA) electrolyzer production to 2 GW per year capacity. The factory will serve as a...

This Cooperative Agreement award 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) provides $5,000,000 in funding to West Virginia University Research Corporation to design and validate an innovative system prototype for producing green hydrogen. The project will integrate high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis (HTSE) with solar concentrator-thermal energy storage (TES) to...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $50,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC to design, build, and deploy a Pumped Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) system at the Healy Power Plant in Alaska. The POLAR Project, as it is known, aims to enhance grid resiliency and stability in the Railbelt region of Alaska while reducing the carbon footprint through the use of renewable energy technologies. Westinghouse...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $99,550,000 Cooperative Agreement to Proton Energy Systems Inc., doing business as Proton Onsite, to build the world's first fully automated pilot Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzer production line with a capacity of 500 MW per year. The project, funded under EERE's Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop a repeatable PEM electrolyzer design that can...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) has awarded a $7,931,941 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to Espin Technologies, Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The objective of this project is to design, develop, and pilot-demonstrate a superior electrospun nanofiber-based separator for liquid alkaline electrolyzer (LAE) systems. The new separator...

This $99,739,322 Cooperative Agreement award 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) aims to develop and pilot an automated, scaled manufacturing process for proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzers. The key objectives are to advance the manufacturing readiness level (MRL) from 4/5 to 8/9 and scale electrolyzer production to 100 MW plants over the 3-year project...

This $5,197,852 Cooperative Agreement, awarded on October 1, 2024 by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), is directed at identifying, testing, and implementing within 2 years ultraviolet light (UV) and temperature tolerant materials and cell stack designs for 27% mechanically-stacked perovskite+silicon hybrid tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules with at least 300 cm2 aperture...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $17,547,861 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 81.086 - Conservation Research and Development) to the University of Wisconsin System to design, fabricate, and demonstrate a 250 kW solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) system capable of performing steam and co-electrolysis. The system will be integrated with an existing 1.6 million tons per year direct reduction of iron (DRI) facility in Toledo, Ohio to...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $6,616,916 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to GE Vernova Operations LLC, operating as the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center. The objective of the "Grid-Ready Wind" project is to demonstrate the ability of utility-scale wind power plants to provide traditional and emerging grid services, in both grid-following and grid-forming...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $42,681,706 Cooperative Agreement to Plug Power Inc. to establish manufacturing processes for PEM electrolyzers in Rochester, New York capable of producing 5GW of PEM electrolyzer stacks per year. The goal of this project under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) is to achieve cost, production, and performance targets for the PEM electrolyzer manufacturing process...