I&I Program Announces FY 2003 Awards for Energy-Saving Inventions

September 3, 2003

A total of 9 new projects will receive over $1.5 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Inventions and Innovation (I&I) Program in fiscal year 2003. The energy-related technologies were selected through a competitive solicitation process, which opened on February 12, 2003 and closed on April 11, 2003. At the close of the solicitation, I&I had received 252 proposals, of which 9 received funding.

The I&I Program provides two levels of funding: Category 1 projects can receive up to $75,000 in funding for conducting early development and establishing technical performance of innovative energy saving ideas and inventions; Category 2 projects can receive up to $250,000 for more well-developed inventions moving toward prototype development or commercialization.

FY 2003 I&I Category 1 Grantees

EERE Area	Invention Title	Organization	Funding
Vehicle Technologies	Freight Wing Trailer Aerodynamics	Freight Wing Incorporated	$75,000
Industrial Technologies	Chemically Inert Membranes	PoroGen LLC	$65,000
Industrial Technologies	Cost-Effective Consolidation of Fine Aluminum Scrap for Increased Remelting Efficiency	EMV Technologies LLC	$75,000
Building	Carbon Dioxide Nanoelectric Sensors	Nanomix, Inc.	$75,000

FY 2003 I&I Category 2 Grantees

EERE Area	Invention Title	Organization	Funding
Biomass	Anaerobic Pump Pilot at Old Dutch Foods Manufacturing	Technology Matrix Corp.	$250,000
Solar	Commericialization of a 2.5kW Utility Interactive Inverter for Distributed Generation	Advanced Energy Conversion LLC	$250,000
Building	High Efficiency Liquid-Desiccant Regenerator	AIL Research	$248,500
Wind	Variable Length Wind Turbine Blade	Energy Unlimited, Inc.	$247,000
Hydrogen	Development of Higher Temperature Membrane and Electrode Assembly for Proton Exchange Memebrane Fuel Cell Device Based on SPEKK Blends	Oxford Performance Materials, Inc.	$250,000