Project Grant DESC0023589

Eden Geopower Inc. was awarded a $3,271,671 cooperative agreement from the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) program. The three-year award will support Eden Geopower's development of an electro-hydraulic fracturing technology for enhanced geothermal systems. Their proposed concept involves using electric currents to selectively increase permeability in targeted fractures. This is intended to stimulate a larger reservoir volume without reducing fluid...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), will fund the creation of an Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) in superhot rock with temperatures over 425°C. The $30,172,334 award to Mazama Energy, Inc. will support the drilling of a production well and the application of new methods to stimulate and connect both new and naturally occurring...

New England Research, Inc. was awarded a $198,411 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to conduct research titled "Integrated Characterization and Modeling of Subsurface Properties Critical to Geothermal Energy Storage in Sedimentary Reservoirs." The grant period runs from February 21, 2023 through December 20, 2023. Under this award, New England Research will perform work in White River...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program totaling $255,966 will support Powersilo Inc.'s development of updraft tower technology for geothermal power generation and cogeneration. The SBIR Phase I project aims to develop software models to analyze critical technology functions and optimize parameters for efficient power production from geothermal hot dry rock energy sources. Models will specifically examine air intake velocity...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $43,396,987 Cooperative Agreement to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this project is to develop an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) pilot capable of producing 5 MWe of electricity. Chevron will apply innovative drilling and stimulation technologies to create an injector well and a producer well connected by fractures, with the aim of...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $7,412,558 Project Grant under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) to the City of Rochester, Minnesota. The project will install geothermal wells, interconnect buildings, and transition four city buildings to 130-degree hot water, providing efficient carbon-free heating and cooling. Key activities include designing and purchasing geothermal wells, pumps, and materials,...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy awarded a $3,585,569 Cooperative Agreement to Fervo Energy Company to establish a geothermal energy-driven direct air carbon capture and sequestration hub in southwest Utah. The project, funded under the DOE's Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086), aims to identify sites where there is a strong overlap between geothermal resource potential and geologic conditions suitable for large-scale carbon storage. The...

The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $5,500,231 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University on January 1, 2025 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The project aims to design, develop, prototype, and validate a novel AI-enabled, photoacoustic imaging (PAI) based well-logging tool for comprehensive evaluation of the integrity of geothermal wells at high temperature and high pressure without active cooling....

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $738,318 Cooperative Agreement to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. Over the 14-month period from October 2023 to November 2024, this funding will support EPRI in conducting planning and design for a community geothermal heating and cooling system retrofit project. The key objectives are to: 1) perform a...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $233,670 Cooperative Agreement under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program to the City of Seward, Alaska. The funding will support the final design of a fourth-generation, community-scale, tidal source geothermal district heating and cooling system for the city. The project aims to reduce the community's dependency on heating oil and lower CO2 emissions by supplying over...