In Washington, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the MACRO: Mixed Algae Conversion Research Opportunity funding opportunity announcement (FOA). The FOA will award up to $18.8 million to address research and development (R&D) challenges in converting algae, such as seaweeds and other wet waste feedstocks, to biofuels […]
In Texas, Technip Energies and LanzaTech Global, Inc. were selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $200 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding as part of the Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP). The project SECURE – standing for Sustainable Ethylene […]
In Michigan, the Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced a total of $80 million for two hydrogen projects in the state. Nel Hydrogen, which announced plans to construct an automated gigafactory in Plymouth Charter Township, will receive $50 million from the DOE to help develop the site’s fully automated manufacturing process, which will enable higher […]
To meet its defossilization goals, the US needs cost-effective solutions to provide conversion-ready feedstocks. A team of researchers at Idaho National Laboratory have undertaken a project to look at advanced supply system designs that utilize active quality management and seek to develop feedstock as a commodity with defined quality constraints and flowable formats. And, develop […]
In Washington, Department of Energy (DOE) last week released the 2023 Billion-Ton Report (BT23), which shows that the U.S. could sustainably triple its production of biomass to more than 1 billion tons per year. The report—the fourth in a series of assessments of potential biomass resources in the United States since 2005—finds that 1 billion […]
In Massachusetts, World Energy has been invited by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to submit the Part II Application for an approximately $2 billion loan guarantee through the Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program. The Title 17 program, offered through the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) and established by the Energy Policy Act of […]
In California, West Biofuels, LLC was selected for up to $30 million in award negotiations from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) to provide low-carbon, stable energy for the rural communities in Burney, Mariposa, and Mammoth Lakes, California. By developing a cluster of rural projects in the Sierra Nevada-Cascade, […]
In Washington, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for up to $9.4 million for the development of advanced biofuels. This investment through a new agreement between EPA and DOE is funded by President Biden’s Inflation […]
In Colorado, identifying routes to efficiently convert carbon dioxide (CO2) to an intermediate chemical which can be further upgraded to fuels or commercially valuable chemicals has been challenging. New research from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories discovered a promising pathway to produce formic acid from CO2 with high energy efficiency and durability using […]
In Hawaii, the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Simonpietri Enterprises LLC a $206,500 grant to conduct research on producing organic fertilizer from locally-sourced green waste and wildfire-prone invasive plant biomass. This grant provides crucial funding to demonstrate the viability of Simonpietri’s idea to manufacture fertilizer in Hawaii from invasive and fast-growing plants like guinea grass […]
