The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $999,975 Cooperative Agreement to Louisiana State University (LSU) on February 1, 2024 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The overarching goal of this 1-year project is to develop a safe, inexpensive, and recyclable hydrogen storage and generation system based on formate dehydrogenation and bicarbonate hydrogenation reactions. The primary objective is to create...
This $1,500,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under CFDA 81.089 (Fossil Energy Research and Development), is supporting research to investigate more sustainable methods for carbon-zero hydrogen energy production directly from shale gas. The grant recipient, Texas Tech University, is leading a collaborative project to incubate the next generation of clean energy scientists and engineers through minority-scholar exchange and...
This $1.5 million project grant from the National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering, under the CFDA 47.079 program, will fund research into underground hydrogen storage solutions. Over four tasks, the University of California, Berkeley will investigate the scientific, economic, and social implications of geologic hydrogen storage to enable a transition to renewable energy sources. Specifically, the university will conduct experiments to understand chemical and...
The University of Southern California (USC) Department of Contracts and Grants Division was awarded a $660,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The award supports the development of high-efficiency liquid hydrogen (H2) carrier systems, with the goal of enabling cost-effective green H2 production and delivery. The key objectives include:...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The overarching goal of the two-year project is to develop novel, low-cost, platinum group metal-free, metal-organic framework (MOF)-based heterostructure catalysts containing fullerene and MXene materials. These advanced catalysts are intended to demonstrate...
The University of Texas at El Paso received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy to support capabilities development for hydrogen generation research and education from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023. The funding supports the Fossil Energy Research and Development program's goal of minimizing environmental impacts from fossil fuels through research, development, demonstration and deployment. Specifically, the University will use the...
The University of California Irvine was awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089) for a one-year Phase I feasibility study project titled "Hydrogen Based Energy Storage System for Integration with Dispatchable Power Generator." The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management seeks to advance technologies that minimize environmental impacts of fossil fuels and...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3.75M project grant (DE-EE0010975) to the Colorado School of Mines under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The objective of this 3-year project, starting in March 2024, is to create a facility enabling world-class research in hydrogen production and emission-free combustion of green hydrogen and hydrogen-containing fuels. This research will advance hydrogen-based combustion...
This federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) provides $639,987.00 to University Enterprises Corporation at CSUSB to build infrastructure for physical property measurements toward the design of organic-inorganic hybrid materials with geometric frustration. The research project aims to advance U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries in areas such as...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The objective of this 1-year project is to design, fabricate, and demonstrate plasmonic photocatalysts that can be used for the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation of Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC) at ambient pressures and without...