The U.S. Department of Energy’s Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) program has selected Echogen as one of three recipients of a combined $3.9 million award to develop conceptual plans to support the design, cost and schedule for a 10 MWe (megawatts electrical) Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) Brayton Cycle test facility. The complete team will include Louis Perry Group (plant design and costing), Optimus/Chanute (waste heat exchanger design) and EPRI (materials and utilities consulting).