Project Grant DEGD0000913
- The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $70,476,750 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to the Sumter Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Seco) in Sumterville, Florida. The objective of this 5-year grant is to improve the flexibility, efficiency, and reliability of Seco's electric power system through multiple priority investments. Key project activities include converting overhead utilities to underground systems, addressing aging or inefficient...
- This $36,034,716 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program will fund a partnership between the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and a host transmission utility. The project aims to install an Automatic Power Factor Controller (APFC) device, the SmartValve, at an interregional grid tie to reduce tap changes and increase the control range of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST) across a regional...
- Under a $650,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program (CFDA 10.212), Community Energy Labs Inc. is developing and testing an innovative model architecture to enable affordable grid connectivity and energy management for small and mid-sized commercial buildings in rural communities. The project aims to shape energy use, reduce costs, and improve renewable integration...
- The U.S. Department of Energy's Grid Deployment Office awarded a $76,324,030 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) to modernize its distribution system in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The grant funding will be used to expand REC's utility fiber network, upgrade substations with security systems, deploy advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), and improve grid resilience and reliability. The project...
- This $452,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research on improving the interconnection process for renewable energy generators to connect to the U.S. power grid. The University of Wisconsin-Madison will analyze how the current interconnection queue design acts as a bottleneck to renewable deployment and quantify the costs and benefits of potential policy reforms. It will construct new datasets on...
- The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $225,000 project grant to Ecco International Inc. to support work under the Grid Optimization (GO) Competition Challenge 3. The goal of the award is to enhance industry-standard tools for alternating current optimal unit commitment through Ecco International's "LLGOMAX: Enhancing Industry-Standard Tools for AC Optimal Unit Commitment" project. Specifically, Ecco International will partner with...
- This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $3,750,000.00, is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Renewable Energy Research and Development Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.087). The project will support the "Uncommon Dialogue" in developing consensus-based solutions around the siting of large-scale solar (LSS) projects. This effort aims to speed up LSS project permitting, reduce associated soft costs, and improve...
- This $7,617,635 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program aims to modernize Tri-County Electric Cooperative Inc.'s electrical infrastructure in South Carolina. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year grant (July 2024 to July 2029) include: Upgrading outdated electricity meters with advanced Radio Frequency (RF) meters to provide timely and accurate energy consumption data....
- Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Long Hill Energy Partners, LLC received a $5.0 million Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability under the Electricity Research, Development and Analysis program (CFDA 81.122) to demonstrate and validate low-cost, organic quinone flow battery storage technology. The project, which commenced February 1, 2026 and concludes January 31, 2029, focuses on scaling innovative energy storage...
- The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $206,495 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Energy Concepts Company, LLC to develop an "Industrial Grid Flexibility by Refrigerant Energy Management System". The project aims to advance innovative refrigeration technologies that can enable industrial grid flexibility through the use of renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, waste heat, biogas, and biomass. The project...
BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE LEGISLATION (BIL) SEASONAL SOLAR CONGESTION MANAGEMENT (SEASCOM) PECAN STREET, INC. IS COLLABORATING WITH DELAWARE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE AND UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE IN A PROJECT TO DEVELOP A SEASONAL SOLAR CONGESTION MANAGEMENT (SEASCOM). THE SEASCOM SOLUTION BYPASSES THE NEED TO WAIT FOR LENGTHY AND EXPENSIVE UPGRADES TO DISTRIBUTION AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE TO REMOVE THIS BARRIER AND INSTEAD LEVERAGES THE COMMUNICATIONS CAPACITY OF SMART INVERTERS THAT ARE ALREADY INSTALLED AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF EVERY SOLAR SYSTEM. CUSTOM CONFIGURATION OF A LOW-COST, COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ENERGY MONITORING AND COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE KNOWN AS AN EGAUGE ENABLES RESPONSIVE, JUST-IN-TIME, CURTAILMENT OF SOLAR NET EXPORT BASED ON AN AUTOMATED SIGNAL, WITHOUT INCONVENIENCING MEMBERS OR INCREASING RISK OF SUBSTATION OVERLOADING FOR THE UTILITY.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 5/29/25 | ||
| Not listed | $8.0m | 7/26/24 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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UNIVERSITYOFDELAWARESEASCOMS | University Of Delaware | Project Grant DEGD0000913 | $288.2k | 3/24/25 |