Espin Technologies, Inc.

The Main Objective of This Project Is to Design, Develop, and Pilot-demonstrate a Superior Electrospun Nanofiber-based Separator for Liquid Alkaline Electrolyzer (LAE) System. This Durable Separator Will Have Low Thickness, Low Resistance, High Ion Transport Efficiency, Low Gas Crossover, and High Mechanical Strength. It Will Be Competitively Priced and Will Be a Direct Drop-in Replacement for Zirfon®. the Project Team Will Perform Field Demonstrations at a Large Site With a Unique Design Approach. the Successful Completion of the Project Will Bring to Market, New Product, Locally Manufactured in Chattanooga, TN, for Expanding Hydrogen Economy and Decarbonization of Industries, While Creating Robust Manufacturing Base in Us and Promoting Local Economic Development.

Committed

$6.3 Million

Paid to

UEI NLG9DS1TAJ58

7151 Discovery Drive, Chattanooga, TN, 37416

Department of Energy

Place

COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4, TN, UNITED STATES

Performance

Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025

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Federal grant · cooperative agreement (b)

Department of Energy

Renewable Energy Research and Development to

Espin Technologies, Inc.

Committed

$6.3 Million

Paid to

Espin Technologies, Inc.

UEI NLG9DS1TAJ58

7151 Discovery Drive, Chattanooga, TN, 37416

Department of Energy

Place

COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4, TN, UNITED STATES

Performance

Jan 1, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

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