Project Grant DESC0019652

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award: Innovative Downhole Solutions LLC received a $3.14 million Cooperative Agreement from 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) effective October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2027. Products and Services: The awardee will design and construct an ultrasonic measurement tool engineered to operate in extreme geothermal...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $299,925 Early-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) grant under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of Texas at Austin. The grant, titled "UTEAM: Underground Thermally Enhanced and Architected Metamaterials," aims to develop a novel, cost-effective, and easily deployable shallow geothermal heat exchanger (GHE) system. The research will integrate microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation...

The University of Texas at Austin received a $4,033,588 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) under CFDA 81.135, awarded November 4, 2025, to develop advanced geothermal energy extraction technologies. The project, titled "Improving the Energy Recovery Rate in Enhanced Geothermal Systems," focuses on designing and developing a high-temperature sliding sleeve capable of operating at temperatures up to 225 degrees Celsius. The sleeve will...

Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corp. (IFOS) received a $199,955 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a high-resolution fiber-optic sensing system for geothermal fracture imaging. The system will utilize fiber optic sensor technologies to map subsurface fractures for geothermal energy exploration and development. Mapping fractures is important for locating geothermal reservoirs and managing...

This federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) supports Reaction Engineering International (REI) in developing "A NOVEL SYSTEM TO MEASURE THE LIQUID/VAPOR FRACTION IN A GEOTHERMAL PRODUCTION WELL IN REAL-TIME." REI, a Utah-based R&D consulting firm, will work on this project from February 2024 through February 2025. The grant aims to advance geothermal energy technology by...

This $250,518 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the development of physics-preserving adaptive finite element methods for thermo-poroelasticity modeling at the University of Texas at El Paso from July 2022 through June 2025. The award aims to gain a fundamental understanding of key mechanisms controlling dynamics in enhanced geothermal systems, such as solid displacement, fluid flow and heat transfer, through...

The National Science Foundation awarded Resolved Analytics, PLLC a $977,576 cooperative agreement under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to further develop and demonstrate a novel ground-loop heat exchanger solution for reducing the initial costs of ground-source heat pump systems. The company will refine computational modeling tools to more accurately size heat exchanger systems on a site-specific basis using sophisticated geospatial datasets. It will validate the tools by...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $303,703 to develop a novel approach for characterizing hydrostratigraphy using water level data collected from multi-level monitoring wells. The University of Iowa will collect water level measurements every 10 seconds from 10 to 15 depths in monitoring wells located at a contaminated groundwater site. Analyzing the response of water levels to rainfall and pumping changes will help delineate the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $399,342 to North Carolina State University to develop novel numerical modeling methods for investigating subsidence and heat flow in poly-phase sedimentary basins, with a focus on the Arctic Alaska Basin. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: A comprehensive study characterizing the spatio-temporal evolution of subsidence and heat flow drivers in...

The $255,963 National Science Foundation grant to Teverra LLC will support the development of an innovative downhole tool for direct measurement of in-situ rock stresses in deep well environments. Funded through the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million CFDA program, the Phase I project aims to design, model, and prepare prototypes for a modular stress measurement tool applicable to vertical, deviated, and horizontal wells. Key objectives include analytical and numerical solutions to...