Cooperative Agreement DESC0021701

The Department of Energy awarded a $98,662,016 Project Grant under the Grid Infrastructure Deployment and Resilience (CFDA 81.254) program to Switched Source LLC to deploy distribution-level power flow controllers to a large utility at scale and incorporate this technology into the utility's planning and operational practices. The primary objective is to increase the utility's load serving capacity, which will enhance system reliability, cost efficiency, and the integration of electric...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program awarded a $135,956 project grant to South Dakota State University (SDSU) to develop a highly efficient, modular, and scalable power system that integrates photovoltaic, energy storage, and smart micro-inverter technologies. The goal is to create a novel power conversion system architecture and control capabilities to enable greater penetration of solar energy into the electric grid and support grid stability and resilience. The key...

The Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,800 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Fastwatt LLC, a small for-profit limited liability company based in Clifton Park, New York. The grant, awarded on July 22, 2024, supports research and development of a compact solar direct-to-medium-voltage grid interface using silicon carbide and high-frequency magnetics. This research project aims to advance scientific discoveries and...

This $295,149 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to address protection challenges arising from the increasing penetration of renewable energy in modern electric grids. The University of Denver is the prime recipient, and the project will run from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027. The project will explore novel model-driven and data-driven solutions to ensure dependable fault detection and secure relay operation for power grids...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project grant to Fourth Power, Inc., a minority-owned small business, to develop an energy storage technology that stores electricity as heat and converts it back to electricity using thermophotovoltaics (TPV). The goal is to create a low-cost battery system that can decouple power and energy, enabling discharge durations between 1-100 hours, which is not currently achievable with other...

This $305,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084), aims to develop novel power converters and control schemes for an ultra-efficient rack-level data center power supply system. The project seeks to address the growing energy demand from the data center industry, which currently accounts for approximately 4% of total domestic energy consumption...

This three-year, $144,994 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop a cyber resilient virtual power plant network for growing power demands. Specifically, the award supports designing and implementing a 5G-enabled smart artificial intelligence-based microinverter for a pole-mounted solar power system with energy storage. This virtual power plant will be connected to low-voltage distribution networks and...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science awarded a $199,496 Project Grant to Ampx Technologies, Inc. to develop a cost-effective, multi-port solar power conversion unit based on wide bandgap devices and planar magnetics. This research project, funded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), aims to advance renewable energy technologies and support U.S. energy, economic, and national security priorities through transformative scientific discoveries. The...

This federal Project Grant award, totaling $320,000.00, was provided by 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). The key objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive, scalable, modular, and self-coordinated power converter framework to advance marine renewable energy (MRE) sources. The project seeks to enhance the performance, reliability, and adaptability of MRE...

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...