The Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $177,909 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Bergey Windpower Company, LLC on July 10, 2023. The award supports the development of a "HIGH-PERFORMANCE SMALL WIND TURBINE BLADE FOR MASS PRODUCTION" with an expected completion date of April 9, 2024. The Project Grant aims to advance small wind turbine technology through the design and prototyping of a high-performance blade...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $13.5 million cooperative agreement to GE Research, a division of General Electric Company, to develop additive and modular enabled rotor blades and integrated composites assembly (AMERICA) under the Conservation Research and Development program. The goal of this two-year project ending in August 2023 is to conduct research and development of additive manufacturing techniques and modular blade designs to...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded the University of Delaware a $3,060,498 cooperative agreement under the ARPA-E program (CFDA #81.135) on September 13, 2022 to develop efficient manufacturing of lightweight composite architected structures for transportation vehicles through September 12, 2025.
Under the award, the University of Delaware will lead a consortium to develop and commercialize Composite Architected Materials Processing (CAMP),...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) aims to support research, development, and demonstration projects across various energy technologies under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The $1,200,000 award to Wei7 LLC will fund the "RAPID X-RAY FOR BLADE MANUFACTURING QUALITY CONTROL AND IN-SERVICE MAINTENANCE" project, which seeks to advance manufacturing processes and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the Department of Energy's Federal Grant Program CFDA 81.135, provides $1,075,813.00 to Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) for the "Batch-wise Improvement in Reduced Design Space using a Holistic Optimization Technique (BIRDSHOT), Phase 2" project. The project focuses on refining three refractory high-entropy alloys to enhance their ductility and suitability for...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,108,901 Cooperative Agreement to the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), doing business as ABS Americas, to develop an ultraflexible smart floating offshore wind turbine. The project, which runs from January 1, 2024 to November 13, 2027, will involve collaboration with two sub-awardees, The Floating Wind Technology Company, LLC, and Front Energies, LLC. Through this award, ABS and its partners aim...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $449,065.26 Project Grant to Marathon Fusion, Inc. on Sep 25, 2023 under CFDA program 81.135. The grant supports the creation of an integrated test environment for metal foil pumps in the fusion fuel cycle, with the goal of advancing fusion energy technologies to enhance U.S. energy security, reduce emissions, and bolster energy infrastructure resilience. The 21-month project period runs through May...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $449,100 Block Grant to Foundation Alloy Technology Explorations, Inc. on September 19, 2023. The funding supports the development of a new class of nanostructured alloys specifically engineered for powder metallurgy-based processing through 3D printing and sintering. The project aims to enable resilient and secure domestic supply chains for critical reactor components by leveraging novel materials...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) totaling $256,000 was awarded to Arctura, Inc. to develop a model-free approach to maximizing annual energy production at wind farms through wake steering control of wind turbines. Specifically, the grantee will introduce an extremum seeking control strategy that allows arrays of turbines to work together to minimize power losses by steering the wakes of upstream turbines away from downwind rows. This...
This $1.418 million cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) supports additive manufacturing research on ultrahigh temperature refractory metal alloys. Awarded on May 6, 2021 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a completion date of August 5, 2023, this funding will enable the production of turbine blades using reactive synthesis and additive manufacturing techniques. As part of the effort, the University of Wisconsin and...