Weekly Jolt ⚡ 2024: New Year, New Ways to Promote Clean Energy!

Happy New Year 🎆 from EERE! We look forward to making more strides toward our clean energy future in 2024. Let’s make this year brighter, cleaner, and more sustainable.

Funding Updates

EERE’s Vehicle Technologies Office 🚘 has two upcoming funding opportunities for research and integration to reduce emissions in the transportation sector. Topic areas for the NOIs include innovation for electric vehicle batteries, vehicle and infrastructure training for first responders, concepts for low-emission off-road vehicles, and more.

What’s New in Renewable Energy?

Do you want to bring the power of wind energy 🌬️ to your community? EERE has developed this helpful guide to answer some important questions about what wind energy projects may suit your neighborhood.  

EERE wants to hear from you on opportunities to ⬇️ lower costs, accelerate deployment, and advance concentrating ☀️ solar-power technologies to provide long-term thermal energy storage. Submit your responses to this RFI by Jan. 31 at 5 p.m. ET.

DOE’s National Labs

Of the estimated 110 million metric tons of paper and cardboard 📦 waste tossed out across the United States in 2019, approximately 56% was landfilled and 38% was ♻️ recycled. The rest was burned 🔥.

U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory researchers map America’s landfills and quantifies the lost economic value.

Every year, airplanes ✈️ crisscrossing U.S. skies burn 23 billion gallons of fuel, leaving contrails and 8% of the nation’s transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions in their wake. A recent study by researchers from DOE's Berkeley Lab and Sandia National Laboratories reveals which crop-based feedstocks offer the greatest potential for a cost-competitive, renewable alternative to petroleum-based jet fuel, while also maximizing atmospheric carbon removal.