Project Grant DEEE0003004

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $1,000,000 in federal funding on October 1, 2025, to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation under the Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves program (CFDA 11.420) to support facility construction at the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve. The project will retrofit and upgrade the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system at the Norrie Point Environmental Center by...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The City of Providence received a $3.6 million Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086) on September 25, 2025. The award funds the upgrade of multiple recreation centers in Providence, Rhode Island into community heating and cooling centers designed to provide residents relief during extreme heat and cold events...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $397,351 Cooperative Agreement to Kawerak, Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The funding will support the design of a new direct-use geothermal district heating and cooling (GDHC) system to provide space conditioning for tribal buildings at Pilgrim Hot Springs in Nome, Alaska. The project aims to develop a scalable GDHC system that will provide 95%...

The University of Oregon was awarded a $549,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to develop new tools for decarbonizing space cooling and heating in buildings. The university will create marketable design software, design services, and system control hardware for dynamic passive building systems that utilize climatic resources like solar heat, cool air, and cold night skies to reduce...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program awarded $1,934,623 under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) to support the General Services Administration's mechanical system modernization at the Mike Mansfield Federal Building and Courthouse in Walkerville, Montana. The award, effective August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2027, funds the...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CFDA 66.046) program provides $16,586,025 in funding to the City of New Haven, Connecticut to implement greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction programs and projects identified in the city's priority climate action plan. The key products and services to be delivered include: Designing and building a geothermal energy network with 285 boreholes to provide heating and cooling...

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded Newport Public Schools $478,270 on October 1, 2025, under the Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7003 (CFDA 84.041), a Project Grant. Newport Public Schools, doing business as Aquidneck Island Learning Center, is a local educational agency serving Newport, Rhode Island. The award runs through September 30, 2031, with performance at Newport, Rhode Island 02840. Section 7003 of Impact Aid provides financial...

The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded $161,832 to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on February 1, 2026, to acquire a partial liquid helium recovery system under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083). The system will capture nonrenewable helium gas exhausted from 600 and 500 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance instruments located in the Chemistry Building, liquefy it at the NMR core facility within the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CFDA 66.046) program, provides $450,000,000 to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) to implement greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction programs, policies, projects, and measures identified in a Priority Climate Action Plan. The key activities under this award include initiatives to rapidly accelerate the adoption of cold-climate...