The Department of Energy’s Office of Science will award 111 grants worth $24 million to small businesses in 30 states and the District of Columbia to advance clean energy research and development.
DOE said Tuesday the selected projects will receive Phase I R&D funding under the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs to develop computing, advanced materials and scientific instrumentation in support of the department’s clean energy goals.
Among the selected small businesses are Caporus Technologies, which will develop new silicon-based detector technologies to enable radiation-hard sensors in high energy physics; EnviTrace, which will create artificial intelligence-powered software for urban data analysis; and Greenpath Systems, which will validate a virtual flow metering system for geothermal applications.
The Phase I awards are worth $200,000 on average and will run for a period of 6 to 12 months.
