Project Grant DEEE0004437

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), will fund the creation of an Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) in superhot rock with temperatures over 425°C. The $30,172,334 award to Mazama Energy, Inc. will support the drilling of a production well and the application of new methods to stimulate and connect both new and naturally occurring...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with $2,509,545.00 in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, is part of the Renewable Energy Research and Development Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.087). The primary objective is to design and construct an ultrasonic measurement tool that can withstand extreme geothermal environments. Key deliverables include: 1) developing a high-frequency, highly-focused pulse-echo transducer and a pitch-catch...

This $11,161,316 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), aims to develop a fully functional wireline conveyance and cement/casing evaluation system. The project objective is to create a working prototype tool that meets the requirements outlined in DOE's Funding Opportunity Announcement FOA-0003296. The expected outcome is a...

This $4,800,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), is intended to demonstrate daily and long-duration thermal energy storage for concentrating solar thermal (CST) applications using geological thermal energy storage (GEOTES) technology. The key objectives are to: 1) Install a >100 kWe demonstration power plant with >12 hours of storage...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $516,258 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to the Clean Energy Economy For The Region. The funding will support the design and deployment of a fifth-generation geothermal district heating and cooling (5G) system that can initially supply 25% of the heating and cooling needs for the 32 Zero Energy District (32ZED) in Carbondale, CO and...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $80,000,000 Cooperative Agreement through its Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Freeport Minerals Corporation to demonstrate the technical viability of using industrial-scale geothermal clean heat (GCH) in the mining process. The project will use GCH to enable the recovery of residual copper, a critical material, from previously mined material at a reduced emissions intensity compared to conventional mining and fossil-based heat...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Energy and Mineral Development Program (CFDA 15.038) provides $200,470 to the Pueblo De San Ildefonso tribal government to conduct a feasibility study and resource assessment for a geothermal energy project. The objective is to leverage the Pueblo's proximity to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to provide clean, renewable geothermal power to enable LANL's expanding scientific missions, while...

The Department of Energy (DOE) and Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $4,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Halliburton Technology Partners LLC to develop a quantum-enhanced radio frequency (RF) sensor technology for improving subsurface imaging for geothermal applications. The three-year project, titled "Quantum-Enhanced Radio Frequency Sensor Technology for Geothermal Evaluation and Management", aims to leverage quantum-enhanced techniques to enhance the...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $897,536 Cooperative Agreement to the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The grant objectives for Budget Period 1 are: (1) designing a technically and economically feasible low-temperature geothermal heating and cooling system for a low-income, CT environmental justice community in...

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%...