Project Grant DESC0010136

Wbglobalsemi Inc. received a $200,000 project grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 28, 2021 to develop lower cost, mass, and volume wind power converters with grid support capabilities. The project aims to deliver these technologies by the scheduled completion date of July 29, 2022. The award is provided through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports the Office of Science's mission to transform understanding of nature...

Coolcad Electronics, LLC received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Energy Office of Science on June 27, 2022 to support development of low-cost hybrid SiC/GaN-based single-stage microinverters with integrated planar magnetics technology. The project aims to deliver this technology by March 26, 2023. The award is being made through the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which supports basic research to deliver scientific discoveries and tools...

Windlift Inc., a wind energy engineering and software company, received a $199,879 project grant from the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a floating offshore platform for their Windlift Airborne Power Generator system. This project aims to explore cost-effective deployment of Windlift's airborne wind energy technology. Windlift has previously provided research, development, testing, and evaluation services related to airborne...

Mission Power Corp. was awarded a $206,500 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a low-cost, high frequency inverter for utility-scale photovoltaic systems. The grant will support Mission Power Corp.'s work to design and test a prototype inverter at its Potsdam, New York facility between June 2022 and March 2023. By funding this research and development effort, the DOE aims to advance...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $3,274,432 Cooperative Agreement under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program to Western Michigan University. The objective of this 26-month project is to develop a 150 kilowatt traction power charger-inverter system with galvanic isolation capability. The university will conduct research and development to advance this multi-input integrated smart charger-inverter system, which can...

This award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems under the Engineering CFDA program provides $1,499,996 to the University of Wisconsin System to conduct research on developing ultra-efficient, high-voltage monolithic bidirectional transistors (MBDTs) for use in power electronics applications. The key objectives are to: 1) demonstrate the first ultra-wide bandgap (UWBG) based MBDTs; 2) enhance the performance and manufacturability of...

The National Science Foundation awarded Activecharge LLC a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop an integrated, self-powered sensor node for wind turbine blade monitoring. The one-year project will address technical hurdles such as lack of reliable energy sources and logistical challenges replacing batteries inside blades. Activecharge will prototype a sensor node that reliably harvests electrical voltage from blade...

This $249,980 National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER project grant awarded to North Dakota State University (NDSU) aims to develop a novel network-based framework for analyzing and mitigating sub-synchronous oscillations in inverter-dominated power grids. The project will provide new insights into the mechanisms driving these oscillations, which can jeopardize grid stability and reliability as renewable energy sources with inverters are increasingly integrated. The framework is expected to...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) awarded Perseus Materials Inc. a $498,767 Project Grant to develop a new composite fabrication process for manufacturing wind turbine blades. The goal is to create variable cross-sectional wind turbine blades using an innovative casting technique. This 2-year project, which started on October 19, 2023, aims to deliver a transformative solution that can enhance the efficiency and performance of wind...

This federal Project Grant award of $182,265 from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports the development of a novel high-current conversion technology for distributed energy resources (DERs). The project, led by Lehigh University, aims to leverage wide bandgap semiconductor devices to create a modular, multiphase, interleaved high-current conversion system. This technology is expected to enable high-power demand response and support applications such as...