DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations

JUST ANNOUNCED 📣: OCED issued its intent to fund up to $1.3 billion for transformative carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies. The anticipated funding is part of the Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program and the Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Projects Program and will help create good-paying jobs, reduce pollution to deliver healthier communities, and ensure America’s global leadership in developing the cost-effective emissions reducing technologies needed to decarbonize the nation's electricity generation and hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors. Read the Notice of Intent: https://lnkd.in/eWq5NTtW. Register for the upcoming informational webinar: https://lnkd.in/egsaGS33 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 #Innovation #Sustainability #Decarbonization #EnergyTransition

This week, OCED awarded more than $38 million to six projects across four programs. The Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land had its first awardees. One project plans to convert former coal mine land into a closed-loop pumped-storage hydroelectric facility in Bell County, KY. The other plans to develop a solar photovoltaic farm on a former mining site in Clearfield County, PA. Awarded under the Industrial Demonstrations Program, Cleveland-Cliffs' Middletown Works facility in Middletown, OH, plans to replace a blast furnace with a hydrogen-ready flex-fuel Direct Reduced Iron plant and two electric melting furnaces. Rounding out the week are two grants for the Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas program, and one project under the Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program. Learn more this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/egr7447e 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

🚨 Clean Energy Alert 🚨 — Today, OCED issued a Notice of Intent for up to $1.8B to support a broad range of promising Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies on their path to commercialization and deployment that can accelerate the growth of additional DAC Hubs.   The anticipated funding aims to provide potential applicants with flexible and comprehensive pathways to spur the development of commercial DAC facilities, including DAC facilities at mid- to large-scale along with supporting infrastructure, and expand to Regional DAC Hubs. Funding is anticipated to be announced in winter 2024 and OCED intends to offer funding in recurring openings. Read the NOI and register for an upcoming webinar: https://lnkd.in/eMbGB6JA

Congratulations to the Phase Two winners of the Energizing Rural Communities Prize! Yesterday, OCED announced 33 community winners for the second phase of the $15 million Energizing Rural Communities Prize. Each winning team receives $200,000 to advance their partnership and financing strategies to demonstrate clean energy projects that make energy systems more reliable, resilient, and affordable in rural or remote areas.   Learn more about the winners and their innovative plans: https://lnkd.in/epvNzJxh  #CleanEnergy #AmericanMade #Innovation 

This week, OCED awarded nearly $50 million across three programs to help launch four projects in partnership with the private sector to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies. These projects range from decarbonizing a pulp and paper mill in Mississippi to extending miles of underground power lines to a rural, unserved area in northeast Washington. Learn more about all the awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/enmKq5W4   To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA

It’s time for Project Management 101 🎓 Before ground breaks on clean energy demonstration projects, applicants must first embark on the application and award negotiation process. These two steps help ensure that OCED selects the most promising, intentional, and impactful projects for funding. Once a funding opportunity is announced, OCED often takes hundreds of applications from across the country into consideration. Our expert internal and external reviewers rigorously evaluate applications based on merit and the criteria listed in the funding announcement and make recommendations to DOE selection officials, who then select projects to begin award negotiations.  Then, the merit reviewers’ feedback may be used to inform award negotiations to further improve the projects before the first phase of funding is awarded. At the conclusion of negotiations, OCED releases a project fact sheet and summary of the community benefit commitments for Phase 1.   Stay tuned for more Project Management 101 to learn about planning, development, and more! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/emTPKsEm

This week, OCED awarded more than $70 million across five programs to kick off seven projects—from installing heat pumps in rural Maine to demonstrating a direct air capture hub in Texas to capture legacy carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—bringing us one step closer to filling a critical innovation gap on the pathway to a decarbonized energy future. Learn more about these awarded projects and how OCED works in partnership with the private sector to accelerate market adoption and deploy clean energy technologies: https://lnkd.in/eMA4b2Ym To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA 

August was a busy month! OCED awarded over $75M to 18 clean energy demonstration projects ranging from industrial demonstrations to carbon capture. OCED also issued a notice of intent for $400M to fund innovative, community-focused clean energy solutions in rural and remote areas across the United States. Check out those announcements and much more in our August newsletter: https://lnkd.in/dR3Rrn8F

New Funding Alert: Up to $100M in new funding for 5-15 pilot scale non-lithium long-duration energy storage (LDES) pilot-scale demonstration projects. Through this funding opportunity, OCED aims to advance the maturity of a variety of non-lithium LDES technologies, increase investor confidence, and implement technology in the energy storage space to fill market and technical gaps. OCED is looking for teams that include a technology provider and encourage inclusion of utilities, facility owner/operators, developers, financiers, and others to move energy storage technologies closer to commercial viability and utility-scale demonstrations. Concept papers are due by October 16, 2024, and full applications are due by February 13, 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e77Yxh-B

This week, OCED awarded two projects: ▪ Long-Duration Energy Storage: $2.8M Phase 1 funding (of the total project federal cost share of up to $30M) to the Children’s Hospital Resilient Grid with Energy Storage project, led by Charge Bliss. Charge Bliss plans to design and build a non-lithium-ion battery energy storage system at Valley Children’s Hospital in Madera, CA. ▪ Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas: Up to $5M grant to the Lake City Area Power and Resiliency Augmentation Enterprise project, led by Gunnison County Electric Association (GCEA). GCEA plans to replace 30 miles of aged overhead electric lines to deliver reliable energy to rural Colorado for the next 50 years. Learn more about these awards here: https://lnkd.in/ed__XDk9 To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA