Project Grant 96818301

The Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service awarded a $2.1 million Project Grant to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium under the Assistance to High Energy Cost Rural Communities program (CFDA 10.859). The grant will fund services to address extremely high energy costs in Anchorage, Alaska through May 2024. The Consortium will leverage the funding to deliver programs that help rural Alaskan communities reduce energy expenses. Given the program's focus on assisting areas with...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $8,500,000 Project Grant under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to the Minnesota Department of Commerce Division of Energy Resources. The project aims to improve the energy efficiency and reduce emissions of existing large public, commercial, and multifamily buildings in Minnesota through the design and implementation of a successful and...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $10,000,000 Project Grant under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to the City of San Jose, California. The grant funding will support the city's goal of achieving community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030. Key objectives include developing and adopting a Building Performance Standard (BPS) aligned with the city's carbon neutrality goal,...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $20,000,000 Project Grant under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to the Colorado Energy Office (CEO). The goal of this 7-year project is to accelerate the adoption and implementation of Building Performance Standards (BPS) and provide technical assistance to under-resourced communities and buildings within the jurisdictions of the cities of...

This $275,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support Community Energy Labs Inc.'s development of an advanced building management system using model predictive control and machine learning techniques. The system aims to automate complex aspects of energy-efficient building control to simplify setup and implementation for small to mid-sized commercial building owners. By reducing costs and complexity, the technology...

This three-year, $444,124 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education and Centers Division supports an interdisciplinary research experience for undergraduate students at the University of California, Irvine related to sustainable energy pathways and decarbonization. The Research Experiences for Undergraduates site will expose 10 students per year, primarily from underrepresented groups, to comprehensive decarbonization research topics through experimental and...

This Project Grant award, totaling $203,802, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The award will fund a 4-year research project titled "CAREER: CAS- CLIMATE: An Altruistic Game Theoretic Framework to Characterize Environmental Responsiveness of Residential Electricity Consumption" at Purdue University. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) Generate new knowledge on residential customers' valuation of...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program award to the University of Cincinnati aims to investigate the environmental and equity impacts of building decarbonization retrofits using a novel predictive modeling framework. The $414,396 project, running from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2028, has three research objectives: (1) quantifying the benefits and burdens of building decarbonization retrofits by climate and grid region, (2) analyzing the interactions between retrofits and...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program, supports the development of a light-based, energy-generating carbon removal process. The $274,094 award to Banyu Carbon Inc. aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering or reusing captured carbon dioxide. Key objectives include improving the resistance of the proprietary photoacid catalyst to degradation and replacing expensive...