Department of Energy Announces $142 Million in Grants to Small Businesses
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy today announced awards totaling $142 million for small businesses in 34 states. The 123 projects to be funded address multiple mission-critical areas important for the nation, including clean energy and decarbonization, cybersecurity and grid reliability, fusion energy, and nuclear nonproliferation.
Today’s selections are for Phase II research and development. Small businesses that demonstrated technical feasibility for innovations during their Phase I grants competed for funding for prototype or processes development during Phase II. In addition, prior Phase II awardees competed for second or third Phase II awards to continue prototype and process development.
: Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response; Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation; Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Electricity; Environmental Management; Fossil Energy and Carbon Management; Nuclear Energy; and Office of Science.Hybrid Cyber Protection of Distributed Energy Resources Operational Technology.
This proposal works on an efficient atmospheric microwave plasma process, using renewable electricity, for re-use of CO2 to make jet fuel, and serves the need for low-carbon, high-energy density liquid fuels to be used in aviation.None of the current methods for fabricating superconducting flex cables offers a pathway to a scalable and economical high-density superconducting flex cable that fully addresses the needs of space instruments and quantum computers.
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