Project Grant DEFE0031690

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,570,309 cooperative agreement to Carnegie Mellon University on May 2, 2022 with a projected completion date of July 31, 2025. The award will support development of ionomer-free electrodes for ultrahigh power density proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Specifically, the university aims to create a mixed conducting cathode support that eliminates the separate ionomer phase currently used in...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will investigate a novel high-current conversion technology to promote various distributed energy resources (DERs)-related applications. The $182,265 award aims to develop a modular multiphase interleaved high current conversion technology leveraging wide bandgap semiconductor devices. Key focus areas include high-efficiency resonant circuits, integrated magnetic coupling, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $6,223,777 in funding to Ionomr Innovations Inc., a foreign-owned small disadvantaged business located in Rochester, NY. The primary goals of this project are to: Establish and improve U.S.-based manufacturing capacity for PEMION non-PFSA ionomers and membranes, validate scalability, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, will develop and validate a 100-kW flexible combined heat and power (CHP) system capable of operating on a range of low-carbon fuels, including 100% hydrogen, hydrogen-pipeline-natural-gas blends, and biogas. The $5,625,000 award, with a performance period from Aug 1, 2024 to Jan 31, 2026, will...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis CFDA 81.122 program) provides $1,632,000 to Intelligent Energy Systems LLC to advance standardized, modular microgrid control designs and expand collaborative development methods to allow remote Alaskan communities to play a central role in the design and management of their own microgrid control systems. The project...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) [CFDA 81.135] provides $1,317,842 to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to develop an "Alkali Hydroxide Triple Phase Flow Battery (3PFB)". The proposed 3PFB system will enable reversible operation of ultra-high energy density battery chemistries (>1,000 Wh/kg and Wh/L) through an innovative design inspired by fuel injection and conventional flow batteries. A...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $12,499,583 Cooperative Agreement to ACS Industries Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The award will fund the development of an all-in-one anode pack manufacturing pilot line with three key components: 1) single-step diffusion bonding to assemble the porous transport layer, flow field, and bipolar plate; 2) single-pass in-line physical vapor deposition...

This $5,000,000 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) to the University of Connecticut on September 25, 2023. The award supports the development of a high-performance, metal-supported solid oxide fuel cell (MS-SOFC) system for extending the range of commercial aviation. Key project milestones include designing and demonstrating 1-5 kW scale MS-SOFC stacks, fabricating 150 cm2 cells with...

The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), a program under the Department of Energy, has awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (University of Nebraska) under CFDA Program 81.135. The grant funding will support the University of Nebraska's development of a first-of-its-kind 10 kV high-frequency press-pack (HFPP) silicon carbide MOSFET module, referred to as "METAPAK." This module is intended to enable novel high-frequency HVDC...

This $870,626 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) CFDA Program 81.135 supports the "PROPEL-1K" project at The Johns Hopkins University to develop "HIGH ENERGY DENSITY FUEL CELLS WITH CYCLIC HYDROGEN CARRIERS". The project aims to advance railroad, oceanic, and aviation electrification through 1 kWh energy storage systems. Key tasks include system integration for metal-ceramic composite hydrogen...