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| | Urban Efficiency Group LLC | Wynton Jones | Director of Sustainability |
Small Business
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Weatherization and Intergovernmental
| Electric Vehicle Infrastructure | The Cross Community Climate Collaborative utilizes the concepts of knowledge sharing, sustainability solidarity, and collective impact to socialize a new narrative about the global climate crisis while introducing a framework to help navigate the evolving landscape. At the heart our framework, we acknowledge three Imperatives: Equity meaning that we consider the most marginalized and vulnerable populations; Resiliency meaning that we will build contingencies for adverse stressors against society; and lastly Climate Protections meaning that we will strive to go beyond carbon neutrality and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All of our community partners agree to these Imperatives before I even engage with the leading stakeholders. The concepts and imperatives support what we call the System of Sustainability which acts as a reference point to understanding the interrelated opportunities and challenges that exist any local municipality, but our main purpose is to elevate considerations for equitable and inclusive community development to ensure there are holistically positive impacts for people as well as the planet.
Our community process involves three phases: The Formation Phase entails the organizing of local municipal government around an equitable, inclusive and sustainable vision while gathering local community pillars, individuals who have the capacity, passion and network needed to lead several different focus areas of a multiprong, interdisciplinary community roadmap action plan; The Roadmap Development Phase entails the building out of a comprehensive performance based What we’ve learned is that a lot of these opportunities aren’t getting adopted because of the lack of awareness, education, and promotion of the expansive energy revolution. We consistently look for opportunities and events to attend and promote our current initiatives, programs, and to forecast the emerging job markets to residents as well as community partners. We visit community stakeholders and attend events for municipalities, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, educational institutions, and sometimes even for-profit entities that align with the goals and objectives of C4.
As a unit on the teaming partner list, we'll be able to serve our community partners while providing additional resources for them to adopt these emerging technologies. We currently have 9 out of 14 communities interested in or currently developing electric vehicles charging stations. |
| IN |
| | Star Energy Holdings I, LLC | Steven Estes | Manager |
Small Business
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Bioenergy
| Sustainability | We have knowledge across both OTR and Maritime CNG to LNG.
Additionally, we are able to design carbon solutions that optimize carbon utilization. |
| IN |
| | EnerStrat Consulting | Aadil Ahesan | Principal Consultant |
Small Business
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Buildings
| Clean Cities Coalition Network Outreach, Education and Training | Our Midwest-based consulting firm specializes in helping clients adopt and integrate clean, innovative transportation technologies. We collaborate with local and regional partners, aiming to simplify the adoption of these new solutions and increase their accessibility.
The services our firm provides start with a thorough understanding of each client's unique transportation and energy needs. Based on this understanding, we recommend the most efficient and cost-effective options. A key focus of our consulting services is supporting the transition to vehicles, fuels, and technologies that produce fewer greenhouse gases. This strategy not only helps reduce pollution but also contributes to improved public health.
Our firm guides clients towards the utilization of clean energy sources, such as alternative and renewable fuels, which can offer financial savings while contributing to environmental preservation. We also provide strategies for fuel conservation, like reducing idle time, which can help clients cut costs and enhance operational efficiency.
We're dedicated to exploring new and innovative transportation options that can save clients time, money, and energy, offering a significant boost to their operations. Central to our mission is the belief that the benefits of clean energy projects should be accessible to everyone. We strive to ensure these advantages reach all communities, especially those often overlooked.
Ultimately, our firm is committed to increasing access to clean, affordable transportation. By making these options more accessible, we aim to foster an inclusive, environmentally friendly transportation landscape. With our firm's unwavering commitment to guiding clients in adopting affordable, efficient, and eco-friendly transportation solutions, we're ready to help you achieve your goals. |
| IL |
| | Shorepower Technologies | Jeff Kim | President and CEO |
Small Business
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Vehicles
| Any | Shorepower Technologies has expertise in EV Service Equipment design, charging equipment options, installation at community and interstate site-host locations, engineering, project management and procurement, networked connectivity and intuitive customer payment options, 24/7 public access operations, and reporting of utilization and environmental benefits. As a minority-owned business enterprise (MBE), Shorepower can help your organization meet its diversity goals. We have support from the DOT-DOE Joint Office/ MBDA agency to advance public-private partnerships with Shorepower. Our existing Truck Stop Electrification sites already have infrastructure available to tie-in EV charging equipment. This saves on project time and costs, allowing for more EV spaces and L2 and/or DC-Fast charging equipment in the project budget. |
| OR |
| | FreeWire Technologies | Sarah King | Policy Associate |
Large Business
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Cross-Cutting
| Battery integration, infrastructure light solutions, topic area 11 | Founded in 2014, FreeWire is a leading US-based provider of turnkey & fully integrated electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions. By siting batteries at the grid edge, and utilizing existing infrastructure to repower them, FreeWire’s products can provide resiliency solutions while minimizing total cost of deployment and ownership related to EV charging solution. Boost Charger provides a charge to the vehicle directly from the FreeWire battery using a low power input, as opposed to conventional chargers, which pull power directly from the grid at high power. This enables Boost Charger to deliver high power output to vehicles while dramatically lowering the energy costs of charging.
FreeWire is interested in partnering with others to provide fast charging solutions where there are power and/or time constraints. We can serve as the provider of hardware and software, or provide more of a turnkey solution for deployment. |
| CA |
| | EIT InnoEnergy | Mark Vasu | Head of Sales |
Large Business
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Cross-Cutting
| Workforce Development | The InnoEnergy Skills Institute (ISI) is prepared to support applicants in developing their Community Benefits Plan and workforce development strategy. Developed in 2021, the ISI has trained more than 40,000 learners with over 200 hours of content.
We provide modularized and flexible skill development training through virtual instruction, in-person labs, and continued learning support. InnoEnergy is developing industry-recognized credentials to provide workers with verified and transferable skills. Our existing curriculum spans job profiles across the battery value chain and we are working with industry partners to develop content in photovoltaics and green hydrogen. The ISI is trusted by universities, community colleges, and industry partners across North America and Europe to train and prepare a sustainable energy workforce. |
| MA |
| | Connecticut SWA Clean Cities Coalition | Daphne Dixon | Executive Director |
Non-Profit
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Strategic Programs
| 11,12,13 | Connecticut SWA Clean Cities is a 501c3 nonprofit and the designated U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities Coalition for Fairfield County and Litchfield County. Our Clean Cities Coalition is housed in a national non-profit - Live Green Network. Collectively, we have extensive experience leading national education, outreach, and deployment projects for electric vehicles and and infrastructure implementation. In addition, we have specialized knowledge in developing and leading local focus groups, stakeholder and community engagement, including training and experience in working with disadvantage communities.
We have developed and managed hundreds of trainings, spanning local, regional and national in scope and have experience in curriculum and program development, implementation and measurement. |
| CT |
| | University of Minnesota Duluth | PENG FANG | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| 3. Advanced Integrated Onboard Charging System | My current research primarily focuses on power conversion architecture, specifically enhancing reliability, efficiency, and power density. My expertise allows me to contribute to co-optimized integrated charging/electric traction drive solutions, baseline system to be compared to, describe the overall integrated systems charge power rating, bi-directional capability, electric traction drive power rating, system voltage, and efficiency, provide schematics of the proposed integrated system topology. |
| MN |
| | The University of Alabama | Ruigang Wang | Associate Professor |
Academic
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Cross-Cutting
| Li-S battery | Li-S battery, battery materials, electron microscopy, emission control catalysts |
| AL |
| | Gismo Power LLC | Erika Maria Ginsberg-Klemmt | C.O.O. |
Small Business
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Solar
| | GismoPower’s Mobile Electricity Generating Appliance (“MEGA”) is a deployment system which neither fits in the rooftop, nor in the ground-mounted Solar PV categories. The MEGA integrates a mobile solar carport on wheels, a Class 2 EV charger and inverter which generates electricity for adjacent commercial buildings and the connected VPP/grid. This technology provides an affordable, portable solar solution for commercial leaseholders which exploits previously untapped surface areas for regenerative solar power generation: parking areas.
With an increased market penetration of EVs during the coming years, the load on the electric grid will increase proportionally. By charging directly on-site from a solar PV system without transporting the electricity through the grid, GismoPower will help reduce the need to upgrade the electric grid. The MEGA reduces soft costs associated with custom permitting and impacts from setback regulations. It fulfills the need for a portable, powerful grid-tied electrical appliance which can be either fixed or wheeled around freely, feeding renewable energy into the electric grid or battery. Combined with Smart EV charging technology and VPP software, we can maximize charge time during solar generation hours. When an EV charges during the daytime, the generated electricity will directly charge the electric car battery. If the solar power generation is higher than the charging consumption, the surplus electricity will be distributed to the grid/ VPP. If the solar generation is lower than the EV charge current, all available solar electricity will be used to charge the battery and the remaining portion needs to be drawn from the VPP (or electric grid). GismoPower’s MEGA technology combined with VPP software is ideally suited to lower electricity costs in commercial parking lots while simultaneously substantially reducing the expected additional load on the electric grid and potentially reducing some of the need to upgrade the grid infrastructure to manage the additional load created by charging electric vehicles. Based out of Sarasota FL, GismoPower’s founders the Ginsberg-Klemmts are a multi-lingual, international family. Antonia, President, is co-patent holder of the MEGA and studies mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley. Antonia’s father, VP of Engineering Achim, is an electrical engineer and decade long software engineer. C.O.O. Erika is Antonia’s mother and a successful entrepreneur for her company SRQUS, LLC. |
| FL |
| | Iowa State University of Science & Technology | Steve W Martin | Distinguished Professor |
Academic
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| Solid State Electrolytes for Li-S Batteries | Our research group focuses on Solid State Lithium and Solid State Sodium Batteries.
We use glassy solid electrolytes with high ionic conductivities that are electrochemically stable at reducing, Li and Na, potentials and are stable at oxidizing potentials, +4V to achieve high performance all solid state batteries.
In particular, our specific advancement involves developing new glass compositions that are not only optimized for all of the electrochemical requirements for use in all solid state batteries, our glasses are also very resistant to crystallization. Because they don't readily crystallize, we can use low cost glass processing and manufacturing to form 10 to 100 micron thick thin films of these glasses for use in all solid state batteries.
We are interested in teaming with a company to leverage our glassy solid electrolyte capability towards high performance all solid state Li-S batteries. |
| IA |
| | Ohio State University - Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence | Pete Schupska | Principal Engineer |
Academic
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| 7, 9 | OSU CDME is an applied research facility specializing in advanced manufacturing and experiential learning for undergraduate students; specialties include Materials and Process Development, AI/ML, Additive Manufacturing, and Industrial Cybersecurity.
I am a principal engineer with more than 15 years of experience in automotive development, testing, and research. Interest areas are design optimization and cost and weight reduction for functional components, particularly chassis and seating systems. |
| OH |
| | University of South Carolina | Bond Calloway | Senior Fellow |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Vehicles | The University of South Carolina has a long history of battery research and development. Through our research and development activities, USC researches and assists with deploying technologies to create a more reliable and safer electrical vehicle. Expertise and unique capabilities exist at USC in: Light weighting and composites; battery chemistry and safety; Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies; Micro Grid Integration and Control; Cyber Security; Catalysis and electrode material development; associated Advanced Manufacturing technologies, and nondestructive analysis and sensors. |
| SC |
| | Empire Clean Cities | Joy Gardner | Executive Director |
Non-Profit
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Cross-Cutting
| Any | Empire Clean Cities is a 501c3 Nonprofit and the designated U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities Coalition for New York City and the Lower Hudson Valley. Our organization has extensive experience leading education, outreach, and deployment projects for alternative fuel/EV and infrastructure projects. We also have experience coordinating local stakeholder groups, conducting alt. fuel trainings, and community engagement. |
| NY |
| | Wallbox Chargers | Adam Mohabbat | Director of Policy |
Large Business
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Strategic Programs
| 11, 12, 13 | Wallbox is a global EV charging manufacturer, dedicated to changing the way the world uses energy. Wallbox creates advanced electric vehicle charging and energy management systems - including AC level 2, DC bidirectional, and DC fast chargers - that redefine users' relationship to the grid. Wallbox goes beyond electric vehicle charging to give users the power to control their consumption, save money, and live more sustainably. Wallbox offers a complete portfolio of charging and energy management solutions for residential, semi-public and public use in more than 115 countries around the world. Founded in 2015, with North American offices in Mountain View, CA, the company now employs approximately 1,200 people in its offices in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. |
| CA |
| | Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies Inc | Summer Saraf | Project Manager |
Small Business
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Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO)
| Power Electronics | Odyssey Semiconductor Technologies is developing gallium nitride (GaN) high-voltage power switching transistors with superior efficiency and characteristics over silicon (Si) and silicon carbide (SiC) devices. Odyssey Semi's novel and proprietary GaN processing technology allows for area-selective doped regions, enabling a vertically-conducting FET structure, analogous to the state-of-the-art geometries found in Si and SiC devices, but with the inherently superior material properties of GaN. GaN devices of an equivalent breakdown voltage and on-resistance can be made much smaller than both Si and SiC devices. Additionally, these smaller GaN devices will have a greatly increased switching speed, and this increased frequency allows for shrinking of the passive components at these higher frequencies. Smaller passive components lead to an overall smaller, lighter, and cheaper total system. Odyssey aims for these GaN power devices to replace the current Si and SiC devices while saving weight, volume, and cost. |
| NY |
| | Arizona State University | Ayan Mallik | Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| | Power Electronics -- specific focus on circuit topology, switching modulation scheme optimization, high-performance control and optimization, high-frequency magnetics.
As part of "Area of Interest 3: Advanced Integrated On-board Charging System": my team at ASU can focus on power converter development & optimization, converter control and modulation, etc.
My webpage: https://search.asu.edu/profile/3495021
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N_pdQB4AAAAJ&hl=en |
| AZ |
| | Texas A&M University | Irfan A. Khan | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Advanced Wireless Charging Concepts for Heavy-Duty Vehicles | I have experience working in power electronics and machine learning to develop and present sustainable, and cyber-robust solutions.
My research experience is very relevant to this topic. A brief description of my background and capabilities is given below:
(a) Design and control of power electronic converters for fast chargers for both on-road and off-road vehicles,
(b) Conducted studies to optimize the cost of alternate energy sources powered electric vehicle charging stations for both off-grid and grid-connected systems,
(c) Using machine learning tools to implement predictive maintenance of power converters for different applications (including renewables, motor drives) and
(d) Extensive studies for impact analysis, identifying grid congestion, and maximizing EV penetration in utility grids.
My published research and review articles on electric vehicle charging, machine learning-based predictive maintenance and cybersecurity concerns of energy systems, have been well received by the international research community. |
| TX |
| | Texas A&M University | Irfan A. Khan | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Vehicles
| Advanced Integration Onboard Charging System | I have experience working in power electronics and machine learning to develop and present sustainable, and cyber-robust solutions.
My research experience is very relevant to this topic. A brief description of my background and capabilities is given below:
(a) Design and control of power electronic converters for fast chargers for both on-road and off-road vehicles,
(b) Conducted studies to optimize the cost of alternate energy sources powered electric vehicle charging stations for both off-grid and grid-connected systems,
(c) Using machine learning tools to implement predictive maintenance of power converters for different applications (including renewables, motor drives) and
(d) Extensive studies for impact analysis, identifying grid congestion, and maximizing EV penetration in utility grids.
My published research and review articles on electric vehicle charging, machine learning-based predictive maintenance and cybersecurity concerns of energy systems, have been well received by the international research community. |
| TX |
| | Creative Worx LLC | Josh Leonard | Owner / Engineer |
Small Business
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| Aerodynamics | Creative Worx has developed the Lumenar Aerodynamic Treatment to significantly improve the efficiency of large vehicles such as motorcoaches, buses, motorhomes, emergency vehicles & cab-over-engine (COE) trucks. This consists of specific vehicle body shapes & vertical airfoils mounted on the front & rear corners that reduce the drag force the powertrain must overcome to propel the vehicle down the road. For proof of concept, prototype Lumenar airfoils were installed on a motorhome which delivered a 13% improvement in fuel economy. Currently, Lumenar airfoils are being installed on the rear to deliver an expected 25% total fuel economy gain. These airfoil designs not only improve fuel economy, but stand to make remarkable improvements to electric vehicle range & generally serve as a technology enabler. Prototypes can be applied to vehicles involved with this FOA. Please contact Josh Leonard for more information.
Josh has worked in the transportation industry for 24 years developing designs for automotive & commercial vehicles, including the DOE's Super Truck program to maximize freight efficiency. |
| IN |
| | Berkeley Lab | Michael Mills | Program Manager |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Vehicles
| | Berkeley Lab's Transportation Group has expertise to support the batteries and electrification, energy efficient mobility systems, and technology integration Areas of Interest for this FOA. Please visit our websites to learn more about our advanced battery research (https://transportation.lbl.gov/batteries-and-fuel-cells and https://appliedenergyscience.lbl.gov/energy-storage), big data for mobility (https://transportation.lbl.gov/big-data-mobility), regional-scale mobility modeling framework called BEAM CORE (https://transportation.lbl.gov/beam).
The Behavior, Energy, Autonomy, and Mobility (BEAM) model is an open-source agent-based regional transportation model that overcomes the limitations of conventional transportation models to help regional transportation agencies make better planning decisions. An enhanced modeling framework called BEAM CORE can help regional and local planning organizations assess strategies before policies are rolled out or mobility technologies are adopted.
Big Data Mobility researchers develop the data science and computational frameworks needed to build next-generation transportation/mobility system models and operational analytics. Leveraging high-performance computing, sensor data, and big data analytics, they model urban-scale transportation networks and energy systems. They use real-world, near real-time data to optimize mobility, energy efficiency, and productivity.
The Battery technology team conducts innovative research to understand the basic science and overcome technological barriers to next-generation batteries. And Berkeley Lab’s Energy Storage Group devotes substantial effort to lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, which are promising for transportation applications, and the Group is developing batteries for electricity grid-scale applications such as flow batteries. |
| CA |
| | Paired Power | Tom McCalmont | CEO |
Small Business
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| 11, 12, 13 | Paired Power is solar powering the future of ultraclean, resilient charging mobility anywhere, off grid and on. Paired Power is a solar EV charging infrastructure provider that is accelerating transportation electrification with 100% renewable energy. Paired Power is deploying the world's first pop-up EV charging solar canopy that reduces and eliminates costly construction and energy infrastructure upgrades required with traditional EV charging and solar canopy installation.
Founded in 2015, Paired Power is led by a team of renewable energy veterans with more than 100 years of combined solar engineering experience and a track record of innovation, including 25 U.S. patents. The company has deployed hundreds of successful projects across the U.S.
Paired Power solutions are proudly made in America. |
| CA |
| | WeaveGrid | Amy Roschelle | Automotive and Utility Partnerships |
Small Business
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| 11,12,13 | WeaveGrid is a software company that helps utilities increase the adoption of electric vehicles through EV-specific rate support, managed charging programs, and distribution-level optimization. WeaveGrid’s technology leverages embedded vehicle telematics — data, controls, and communication systems — as well as networked charging equipment (EVSE) to deliver robust and scalable programs for our utility customers. We also enable utilities to engage their EV customers with personalized messages and insights via the web, email, and SMS. Our approach enables broad participation in utility programs with high levels of customer satisfaction while helping reduce the overall costs to serve EV loads.
For this FOA, we are particularly interested in working with utilities, automotive OEMs, and clean cities to to further electrify transportation. |
| CA |
| | DIMAAG-AI, Inc | Mahbubul Alam | CMO & Chief Business Development Officer |
Small Business
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Joint Office of Energy and Transportation
| | DIMAAG is a Tier 1 supplier of electric vehicle systems for OEMs focused on designing and building battery modules and packs (including swappable modules), and ultra-fast DC Megawatt charging systems. We are a team of serial entrepreneurs and leaders from the technology industry including the Cofounder of Tesla, Ian Wright. We are head-quartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Japan and India. As an end to end, grid to point of use EV solutions provider, we enable our customers to leapfrog competition, fast -track their electrification product roadmap and achieve their compliance goals. We continue to successfully work with major OEMs while operating in stealth. |
| CA |
| | ALENCON SYSTEMS LLC | HANAN FISHMAN | President |
Small Business
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Vehicles
| Power Electronics | Alencon Systems is an American manufacturer of power electronics for clean energy applications. Alencon Systems manufactures devices known as DC:DC to optimizers. These products are used extensively in the alternative energy industry including for solar energy, microgrids, battery energy storage, electric vehicles charging and fuel cells. We were founded by world leading power electronics experts who wanted to apply their unique level of knowledge and experience to help alternative energy become even more cost competitive with other forms of generation.
It is our mission to help commercial, industrial and utility-scale power producers generate cleaner power through the incorporation of technologies like solar, battery energy storage, electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. Alencon’s products are setting a new standard in helping project owners repower existing PV and battery storage plants while allowing developers and EPCs to build new, innovative solar plus storage plants and Microgrids. Alencon has successfully deployed many megawatts of its products in some of the most cutting-edge alternative energy products built to date. Our customers include industry leading utilities, independent power producers (IPPs), engineering, procurement and construction companies (EPCs), battery storage integrators and alternative energy developers. |
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