Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations | U.S. Department of Energy

This week, OCED announced awards for five projects in four states, committing up to $524 million of federal funding. 🎉 Two projects were awarded under OCED’s rural and remote program ⚡  ◾ The Path Company aims to construct 1 MW of solar photovoltaic and upgrade approximately 3,500 light fixtures at East Central Community College in Decatur, MS, ultimately aiming to decrease the college’s annual energy costs by approximately $170,000.  ◾In Montana, the Ravalli Electric Community Storage Project plans to build a battery energy storage system. This project would increase reliability during outages, ensuring clean backup power is available for two volunteer fire departments and a primary school that would serve as an emergency shelter. Three projects were awarded under OCED’s Industrial Demonstrations Program ⚙️  ◾ In Ohio, the O-I project team plans to upgrade a glass furnace with five cutting-edge technologies and demonstrate that combining multiple decarbonizing technologies is effective and could be replicated across the industry.  ◾ The Wieland Group plans to expand its U.S. recycling capacity and capabilities through significant investments into advanced state-of-the-art copper scrap metal processing technology in Kentucky.  ◾ The Deeply Decarbonized Cement Project led by Brimstone aims to construct first-of a-kind commercial-scale demonstration plant that would annually produce an estimated 103,000 metric tons of decarbonized industry standard Ordinary Portland Cement and smelter grade alumina by using calcium silicate rocks and alternative industrial production methods.      🏆 Learn more about this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/ecSaep6a     Stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, subscribe to our newsletter today 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA 

📢 Deadline Reminder: Applications for funding to support Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor technologies are due by January 17. Review the funding opportunity and apply here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eeJsnEbE 

3 Years 📅 113 projects selected 🔨 42 states ⚡️ This December marks the third anniversary of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). As we celebrate the three-year anniversary of OCED, we reflect on the accomplishments we’ve made towards our mission to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies in partnership with the private sector and others as we work to build a strong U.S. energy economy that reduces emissions, creates quality jobs, and provides economic opportunities in communities across the nation.     We are deeply grateful for the partnerships, meaningful engagement, and unwavering support that make OCED’s work possible.    Learn more about OCED’s accomplishments here: https://lnkd.in/eCvA-E6g

Today, OCED awarded the Novel CO2 Utilization for Electric Vehicle Battery Chemical Production project, committing up to $95 million of federal funding.  The Dow project team plans to design and construct a facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast with the intent to capture and utilize approximately 50% to 90% byproduct CO2 from a large-scale manufacturing process to produce essential components of electrolyte solutions needed for domestic lithium-ion batteries. This project would represent a leading U.S. demonstration to capture and utilize CO2 from upstream material manufacturing. 🏆 Learn more about this week’s awarded project here: https://lnkd.in/em_r9zid  Stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more by subscribing to our newsletter today 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA  

🚨 New Publication Alert 🚨: OCED Investment Value Proposition  OCED’s strategic position within the emerging energy and industrial technology investment landscape primarily focuses on bridging the funding gap for FOAK and early-of-a-kind commercial-scale demonstrations that do not yet fit the desired risk-return profile (perceived or actual) of the private sector. OCED’s investment philosophy is centered on accelerating commercialization for emerging energy and industrial technologies. Beyond the success of individual projects, OCED seeks the success of the portfolio broadly, pursuing the “return” of “commercial liftoff”—i.e., the point where a technology establishes a largely self-sustaining market that that can attract a wide range of capital providers with different risk appetite—in each investment area (rather than a financial return to OCED). To achieve commercial liftoff, a technology must realize cost reductions and learning improvements achieved from continued deployments at scale. The report is a must-read to understand OCED’s value proposition and investment philosophy. Read the full publication here: https://lnkd.in/e7Nzk6Fe

New Funding Alert: OCED announced up to $1.8B in reoccurring funding to help catalyze the direct air capture (DAC) industry by offering new pathways to commercialization. This funding will support an ecosystem of projects designed to provide DAC technology and project developers with support at various stages on their commercialization path and ultimately spur the growth of additional Regional DAC Hubs.     OCED is planning to host an informational webinar on Monday, January 13 at 2 p.m., ET to discuss the funding announcement. Register for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/g7GW7Usg Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/gMkuM8aZ

This week, OCED awarded six projects across two programs committing more than $660 million of federal funding. 👏    OCED issued two grant awards in Alaska under the rural and remote program. The first plans to install air-source heat pumps in 240 tribally owned homes and community facilities on Prince of Wales Island—a location only accessible by small aircraft or ferry. The second plans to improve energy resilience in the Arctic Circle by upgrading the region’s power plant infrastructure to enable the integration of a 525 kW solar photovoltaic system and a 990 kWh battery energy storage system. 🔋    OCED also awarded four projects under the Industrial Demonstrations Program:   ▪️ Diageo plans to partner with Rondo Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to upgrade beverage facilities by replacing natural gas-fired heat with Rondo Heat Batteries, electric boilers, and other thermal solutions.   ▪️ ExxonMobil aims to enable the use of hydrogen in place of natural gas across high heat-fired equipment using new burner technologies for ethylene production, a chemical feedstock used in manufacturing.   ▪️ Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. plans to demonstrate the viability of Via Separations’ membrane technology to potentially scale across other domestic pulp and paper mills and other industrial sectors, such as chemical manufacturing.  ▪️ Technip Energies in partnership with LanzaTech plans to use a biotech-based carbon recycling process and low carbon intensity hydrogen to create sustainable ethanol and ethylene.  🏆 Learn more about all this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/eDj4Hu4k      Stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, subscribe to our newsletter today 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA 

🚨 Funding Alert: Up to $1.3 Billion in new funding for up to 11 Point-Source Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilots, Commercial Demonstrations, and Networked Infrastructure Planning and Design projects. Through this funding opportunity, OCED aims to bolster the development and commercialization of carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies with significant investments targeting the design, stakeholder engagement, construction, and operation of large-scale point-source carbon capture projects. Concept papers are due March 1, 2025, by 5 p.m., ET and full applications are due by July 1, 2025, by 5 p.m., ET.    OCED is also planning to host an informational webinar on January 15, 2025, at noon, ET to discuss the funding announcement. Register for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/eSRbhZJY View the funding opportunity and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e9ibm9Yj

Thanks for having us! In early December, five OCED team members took the stage at #Deploy24 to participate in dynamic speaking discussions about accelerating clean energy technologies across the country. OCED also took part in several dozen meetings during DOE Office Hours.   More than 1,800 government, energy industry, and financial sector leaders came to this year’s event, answering the call to demonstrate, deploy, and decarbonize. See you all next year!   #Deploy24 #AmericanInnovation #CleanEnergy

🏆Winners worth celebrating! 🎉 Congratulations to the newest winners of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Manufacture of Advanced Key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (MAKE IT)!