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Energy Dept. Awards $13 Million in Small Business Grants
Minnesota Ag Connection - 05/24/2018

As part of a $34 million announcement by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research and development projects, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will fund 87 new projects across 34 states, totaling nearly $13 million in funding.

DOE technology offices award Phase I grants to small businesses that demonstrate technical feasibility for innovations during the first phase of their research. Most Phase I awards are for $150,000 for less than one year. If completed successfully, Phase I projects are eligible for Phase II. Phase II funding awards provide up to $1 million or up to $1.5 million, depending on the technology, and an award known as a sequential Phase II award can provide up to an additional $1 million.

Nine EERE technology offices are funding 10 Phase I topic areas (Advanced Manufacturing I & II, Bioenergy, Buildings, Fuel Cells, Geothermal. Solar, Vehicles, Water, and Wind) across 29 subtopics. In Minnesota, EERE-funded projects include:

- SarTec Corporation, Anoka, will receive $150,000 to focus on sustainable production of biofuels and bio-based chemicals from waste brown grease, that would typically end up in a landfill, enriches economic (jobs), security (reduced petroleum), and environmental futures. A new green hydrothermal catalysis process will be optimized to convert brown grease, obtained as waste trap grease and from wastewater treatment floatable layers, into bioproducts widely used in fuels as well as some with uses in the plastics, solvents, and pharmaceuticals businesses

- TerraCOH Inc., Hopkins will receive $149,999.69. The DOE seeks to enable expansion of geothermal as an on- demand energy source. TerraCOH's innovative CO2 Plume Geothermal (CPG) technology uses CO2 as the geothermal heat transfer/energy storage fluid, allowing far more, lower-temperature areas to be cost-effectively used for geothermal power in general and as a dispatchable energy source.

- Smart Information Flow Technologies, Minneapolis, will receive $145,310.48. The electrical power grid is vulnerable to cyberattack by means of malicious data injection (MDI), and its vulnerability is growing as more smart devices are plugged in. The SolarGuard project will research MDI detection, using a combination of power grid models and machine learning

- Macchina, LLC, Osseo, will receive $149,510 to improve the fuel economy and utility of plug-in hybrid electric cars by increasing their electric-only range. The technology uses communication with a cloud server that automatically recommends when the vehicle operates in electric-only mode on a route through historical data analysis and knowledge of weather and traffic.


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