PaceControls and Penn State’s Center for High Performance Building Systems (CHiPBS) were announced this week as winners in the first round of grants out of the DOE Energy Innovation Hub, a national center of excellence for building energy efficiency at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Grant funds will go to beta trials and commercialization of PaceControls’ next-generation PACE3 product suite, plus expansion of PaceControls’ manufacturing capacity around the company’s headquarters at the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC) at the Navy Yard Hub.

Henry Foley, Ph.D., executive director of GPIC, said in a statement, “We are pleased to provide these awards to outstanding organizations. The selected projects reflect the priorities and areas of need for GPIC where additional research will contribute significantly toward meeting GPIC goals and spurring innovation.”

Click here to read the full announcement on the GPIC Website.

Tom Mills, CEO of PaceControls, said, “This first-round GPIC award is a tremendous credential and catalyst for our growth. Others in this first award round include Philips North America, Purdue University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Bayer, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. We’re in good company.”