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...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $206,500 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to Gaia Energy Research Institute LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged and woman-owned business located in Alexandria, Virginia. The grant, awarded on February 18, 2025, supports research to develop "Electrochemical Approaches to Mitigating Mineral Scaling in High-Temperature Geothermal Systems." The project aims to advance U.S. energy and...
Greenpath Systems LLC was awarded a $206,465 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 21, 2023 to support work completing February 20, 2024. The grant funds research under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop robust and cost-effective methods for characterizing petrophysical properties in sedimentary geothermal applications leveraging drilling data and cuttings. The Office of Science's mission is to deliver scientific...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science awarded a $206,469 Project Grant to Greenpath Systems LLC, a woman-owned small business, to develop a novel and robust virtual flow meter (VFM) for geothermal applications. This grant is funded through the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), which supports fundamental research and development projects aligned with the agency's mission. The objective of this project is to advance scientific understanding and...
This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by 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 create an Engineered Geothermal System (EGS) in superhot rock with temperatures over 425°C. The $30,172,334 award will fund the drilling of a production well and the application of new methods to stimulate and connect both new and naturally occurring fractures within the rock, with the...
This $228,331 National Science Foundation project grant supports collaborative research to understand the evolution of continental lithosphere beneath New England through geologic time. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the research team will employ seismic imaging techniques and analyze geologic structures exposed at the surface to illuminate plate tectonic processes that have shaped the region. Specifically, the investigators from the University of Vermont and partner...
The Department of Energy Office of Science awarded Pathways United, LLC a $199,073 Project Grant under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049) to develop a geothermal experiential learning tool. The grant period runs from June 27, 2022 through March 26, 2023. Under this award, Pathways United will create educational resources utilizing geothermal energy to advance understanding of nature and transform the nation's energy future, directly supporting the Office of...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $117,832 awarded on July 1, 2022 will support research into the geological processes that have shaped the continental lithosphere beneath New England through time. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the investigators from Williams College and research institutions will conduct seismic imaging of the crust and upper mantle using data from deployments of seismometers in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine....
The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded a $897,536 Cooperative Agreement to the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. The grant objectives for Budget Period 1 are: (1) designing a technically and economically feasible low-temperature geothermal heating and cooling system for a low-income, CT environmental justice community in...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), provides $200,000.00 in funding to Eion Corp in Princeton, NJ to quantify enhanced rock weathering rates through geo-tracer measurement. The project aims to use this data for chemistry-informed feature engineering and modeling, with the expected completion date of July 21, 2025. The Department of Energy's Office of Science supports fundamental scientific...