Project Grant DEEE0008242

Harvest Thermal, Inc. was awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop a low-emissions heating and hot water system. The 24-month project will address technical risks to enable large-scale deployment of residential heating and hot water load shifting using highly efficient heat pump systems. Harvest Thermal will systematically test system performance, reliability, and failure modes to...

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...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided 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), supports the development of an integrated cascaded heat exchanger system. The $812,500 award aims to demonstrate advanced manufacturing techniques to meet both power generation and industrial process heat demands. Key objectives include improving particle-side convective heat transfer,...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $255,966 will support Powersilo Inc.'s development of updraft tower technology for geothermal power generation and cogeneration. The SBIR Phase I project aims to develop software models to analyze critical technology functions and optimize parameters for efficient power production from geothermal hot dry rock energy sources. Models will specifically examine air intake velocity...

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 Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3.8M Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the Town of Manchester, Connecticut for the installation of renewable energy infrastructure at Keeney Elementary School. The objective was to achieve a net zero energy (NZE) design by integrating geothermal heat pump systems and rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, eliminating fossil fuel use and reducing...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $14,973,601 Cooperative Agreement to Firestone Walker Inc. on October 1, 2025 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The funding will support Firestone Walker's project to construct a parabolic trough thermal power plant, steam accumulator storage system, and integrate heat pumps to replace natural gas consumption and reduce CO2 emissions at their 1 million barrel...

This $5,000,000 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), focuses on integrating high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis (HTSE) with solar concentrator-thermal energy storage (TES) to generate green hydrogen for further use in syngas and fuel production. The project, led by the West Virginia University Research Corporation, aims to design and...

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) provides $425,309 to the University of Dayton Research Institute to develop scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-SCO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers for concentrating solar power (CSP)...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award provides $274,723 to Earthen Energy Inc. for the development of a Packed Bed Thermal Energy Storage (PB-TES) system using supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) as the heat transfer fluid. The project aims to create a scalable, cost-effective energy storage solution to improve grid stability and enable greater integration of renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Key objectives...