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
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Funding large-scale demonstration projects to unlock clean energy investment and support an equitable energy transition
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) established the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) in December 2021 to help scale the emerging technologies needed to tackle our most pressing climate challenges and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. OCED is managing more than $25 billion in funding to deliver clean energy demonstration projects at scale in partnership with the private sector to accelerate deployment, market adoption, and the equitable transition to a decarbonized system. OCED is a multi-technology office with demonstrations that include clean hydrogen, carbon management, advanced nuclear reactors, long-duration energy storage, and industrial decarbonization, as well as demonstration projects in rural or remote areas and on current and former mine land. These technologies face significant barriers to scale and OCED’s role is to address these barriers and help de-risk them. OCED will prove the effectiveness of these technologies in real world conditions at scale to pave the way towards widespread adoption and deployment. Most of OCED’s projects are structured as collaborative partnerships that use cost share agreements. OCED will provide up to 50 percent of the funding in its public-private partnerships, assisting its industry partners with the early steps to commercialization and deployment. All OCED-funded projects will address the Energy and Environmental Justice and Justice40 Initiative; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility; Community, Labor, and Tribal engagement; and Quality Jobs. Are you looking to make a meaningful contribution to the clean energy transition? Come join us!
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Employees at Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations | U.S. Department of Energy
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Dr Lavanya Viswanathan
Chief Data Officer, Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, Department of Energy
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Brian Mahar
Accelerating Demonstration & Deployment of Clean Energy & Infrastructure Through Strategic Engagement
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Katie Harkless, MBA
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John C Brown
Energy | Climate | Public-Private Partnerships
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🚨 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
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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
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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
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🚨 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
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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
THANK YOU from the #Deploy24 team! The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Infrastructure | U.S. Department of Energy, and Loan Programs Office | U.S. Department of Energy would like thank all the innovators, founders, decision-makers, and leaders who were able to join us in Washington, D.C. this year for Deploy24, and also extend our sincere thanks to all those who are working across the country to #DeployTogether now and into the future! Be sure to follow Deploy24 here on LinkedIn and stay tuned to DeployTogether.com for more highlights from #Deploy24!
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🏆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)!
Winners in two tracks of the #MAKEITPrize have been announced! 👏 In the Facilities Track, two final winners from Phase 2: Shovel-Ready winner were awarded $5 million throughout the prize for proving they are ready to break ground on a manufacturing facility for clean energy components. In the Strategies Track, ten winners of Phase 2: Create received $100,000 each for developing concept roadmaps to bring clean energy manufacturing to their regions, and five Phase 3 winners received $250,000 for finalizing their roadmaps and obtaining concrete commitments from manufacturers to establish a clean energy manufacturing facility and quality local jobs in their regions. This announcement concludes the Facilities Track, but the Strategies Track still offers remaining competitors one last Phase 3 submission deadline in May 2025. Meet the winners from both tracks: https://bit.ly/3ZxnNuT
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🚨 Clean Energy Alert 🚨 Today, OCED issued its intent to fund up to $30 million for Pilot-scale Rapid Operational Validation of Key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (PROVE IT) projects. Through this upcoming funding opportunity, OCED’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program will support small businesses conducting operational validation of a pilot-scale unit before it can be deemed ready for a large-scale demonstration project or its commercialization and deployment. Check out the NOI’s details here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eHmwmzv7
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Today, OCED announced awards for four projects in four states, committing up to $536 million of federal funding. 🥳 ◾The Gallo Glass Company plans to demonstrate the use of a hybrid electric furnace to reduce natural gas use by up to 70%, increase recycled content in its glass bottle production process, and demonstrate cradle-to-gate reductions in carbon intensity of more than 40% compared to traditional gas-powered furnaces. ◾At two copper mines in Arizona, Freeport-McMoRan aims to use of the area’s naturally occurring geothermal clean heat for recovery of copper, a critical mineral that is difficult to access, from previously mined material. The team also plans to implement microgrid technologies to reduce mining emissions and improve reliability for both the mines and the surrounding community. ◾Vale USA plans to build a first-of-its-kind iron ore briquette production facility in the United States. The facility will use low-emissions alternatives to traditional iron ore pellets as a feedstock for metallics and steel production. Vale USA expects to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 60% and reduce some air pollutants like sulfur oxides by roughly 99%. ◾The Star e-Methanol project led by Ørsted P2X US Holding LLC intends to use captured carbon dioxide from a local industrial facility to produce up to 300,000 metric tons of e-methanol per year and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% or more compared to traditional production methods. This project expects to demonstrate both the supply and demand for clean hydrogen-derived alternative fuels for the marine shipping and transportation sector. 🏆 Learn more about all this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/e6KmWzTi 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
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Hot off the press: 📰 OCED’s November Newsletter is out! ⚡ Key Highlights: 🔹 Awarded Projects – OCED committed up to $2.6B to 10 clean energy projects ranging from hydrogen hubs to long duration energy storage 🔹 Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Report – Sustainable Aviation Fuel 🔹 OCED Portfolio Insight – Learning from Case Studies: Financing and Development Approaches from Recent First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Projects 🔹 Carbon Management Industry Day video recap 🔹 And more! Find out more about all of November’s announcements, events and awarded projects. Read our 20th issue: https://lnkd.in/dfmn_KGw
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