Biden-Harris Administration Proclaims $254 Million to Decarbonize America’s Industrial Sector & Revitalize Home Manufacturing

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49 Tasks Throughout 21 States and a New Funding Alternative will Assist Advance Subsequent-Technology Applied sciences to Considerably Reduce Emissions and Help President Biden’s Efforts to Construct a Clear Vitality Financial system

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In assist of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Division of Vitality (DOE) right this moment introduced $171 million for 49 initiatives throughout 21 states to scale back industrial greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions and speed up the event of progressive decarbonization applied sciences. DOE additionally introduced that functions are open for an $83 million funding alternative to lower emissions from hard-to-decarbonize industrial sectors, which symbolize roughly 30 p.c of complete U.S. carbon emissions. Right this moment’s bulletins assist DOE’s Industrial Warmth Shot and Clear Fuels & Merchandise Shot and can assist the nation meet the Biden-Harris Administration’s formidable purpose of a net-zero emissions financial system by 2050. Advancing next-generation applied sciences that scale back dangerous emissions is a key part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to deal with the local weather disaster, create new, good-paying jobs throughout the nation, and strengthen America’s manufacturing and industrial competitiveness.

“Right this moment’s announcement will assist advance the progressive applied sciences we have to decrease prices and enhance vitality effectivity in America’s factories and industrial facilities,” mentioned U.S. Secretary of Vitality Jennifer M. Granholm. “Making certain America’s industrial sector and its strong workforce stay sturdy and aggressive is vital to sustaining our nation’s edge as a world financial powerhouse and accelerating President Biden’s imaginative and prescient of a powerful, made-in-America clear vitality future.”

Accelerating Groundbreaking Emissions-Decreasing Applied sciences

Managed by DOE’s Industrial Effectivity and Decarbonization Workplace, the 49 selectees will assist high-impact, utilized analysis, growth, and pilot-scale expertise validation and demonstration (RD&D) initiatives aiming to scale back vitality utilization and GHG emissions from industrial subsectors, such because the chemical compounds trade which accounts for about 40 p.c of all industrial vitality use and emissions in the US. The initiatives may also advance cross-sector industrial decarbonization approaches to deal with challenges frequent throughout varied industries.

Of the initiatives chosen, 16 might be led by personal trade, 22 by educational establishments, 3 by non-profit organizations, and eight by DOE Nationwide Laboratories. Chosen initiatives will advance decarbonization applied sciences within the following areas:

• Decarbonizing Industrial Warmth (10 initiatives, $25.3 million): Chosen initiatives will speed up high-impact expertise improvements for gear and parts to decarbonize thermal processes throughout the economic sector.
• Low-Carbon Fuels Utilization R&D (6 initiatives, $20.7 million): Chosen initiatives will deal with analysis, growth, validation, and demonstration wanted to speed up the industrial readiness of hydrogen-fueled course of heating expertise and low-carbon-input, versatile CHP (mixed warmth and energy).
• Exploratory Cross-Sector R&D (5 initiatives, $14 million): Chosen initiatives, partially funded by DOE’s Superior Supplies and Manufacturing Applied sciences Workplace, will deal with rising R&D areas for applied sciences and supplies that allow industrial decarbonization and considerably enhance vitality effectivity.
• Decarbonizing Chemical substances (6 initiatives, $30.5 million): Changing between chemical constructing blocks to create shopper and industrial merchandise, similar to fuels, polymers, and paints, is extremely vitality intensive. Chosen initiatives will deal with decarbonization applied sciences for high-volume chemical compounds with important CO2 emissions, together with superior separations processes, superior reactor methods, and dynamic catalyst science.
• Decarbonizing Iron and Metal (7 initiatives, $37 million): Chosen initiatives, partially funded by DOE’s Hydrogen and Gasoline Cell Applied sciences Workplace, will deal with decarbonization alternatives in iron and metal manufacturing, together with progressive manufacturing applied sciences to allow decarbonization; electrification of present manufacturing processes; overcoming challenges related to using hydrogen in steelmaking; and addressing scrap contaminants in recycling.
• Decarbonizing Meals and Beverage Manufacturing (5 initiatives, $11.1 million): Chosen initiatives will deal with low- and zero-carbon options for course of heating, cooling, and refrigeration in all kinds of energy-intensive meals and beverage operations.
• Decarbonizing Cement and Concrete (5 initiatives, $20 million): Chosen initiatives will tackle cement’s direct course of emissions and can speed up the industrial readiness of rising low-carbon or net-zero applied sciences for the cement and concrete trade that present vitality financial savings and different advantages similar to lowered complexity and improved course of effectivity and optimization.
• Decarbonizing Forest Merchandise (5 initiatives, $12 million): Chosen initiatives will deal with decarbonization alternatives in energy-intensive drying, paper forming, and pulping processes.

Choice for award negotiations will not be a dedication by DOE to problem an award or present funding. Earlier than funding is issued, DOE and the candidates will endure a negotiation course of, and DOE could cancel negotiations and rescind the choice for any motive throughout that point.

Extra data on the initiatives introduced right this moment could be discovered right here.

Tackling Decarbonization Challenges in Vitality- and Emissions-Intensive Industries

The Vitality- and Emissions-Intensive Industries (EEII) funding alternative will deal with utilized RD&D for the best GHG-emitting industrial subsectors, particularly: chemical compounds and fuels; iron and metal; meals and beverage; constructing and infrastructure supplies (together with cement and concrete, asphalt pavements, and glass); and forest merchandise. Collectively, these industries account for greater than 65 p.c of U.S. industrial manufacturing emissions, which jeopardize public well being and pollute world ecosystems. Decarbonizing these industries is crucial to decarbonizing provide chains and assembly President Biden’s clear vitality and local weather objectives.

This funding alternative may also embrace a joint matter with the Hydrogen and Gasoline Cell Applied sciences Workplace and the Workplace of Fossil Vitality and Carbon Administration targeted on pre-front-end engineering and design (pre-FEED) research that assist the event of decarbonized industrial processes utilizing progressive, pre-commercial applied sciences.

Idea papers are due March 19, 2024, at 5:00pm ET, and full functions are due June 11, 2024, at 5:00pm ET. DOE’s Workplace of Vitality Effectivity and Renewable Vitality envisions awarding a number of monetary help awards within the type of cooperative agreements. The estimated interval of efficiency for every award might be roughly 12 to 36 months. Study extra about this funding alternative.

This funding is a part of DOE’s Applied sciences for Industrial Emissions Discount Improvement Program (TIEReD), which leverages assets throughout the Division’s utilized analysis workplaces to spend money on elementary science, analysis, growth, preliminary pilot-scale demonstration initiatives, and technical help and workforce growth. Tasks in the end chosen may also advance the objectives of the DOE Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap, which focuses on the best emitting industries the place decarbonization applied sciences may have the best impression, similar to iron and metal, aluminum, cement and concrete, and different energy-intensive industrial processes.

Right this moment’s bulletins advance two of DOE’s Vitality Earthshots: the Clear Fuels & Merchandise Shot and the Industrial Warmth Shot. The Vitality Earthshots Initiative targets the remaining answer factors of probably the most difficult technical issues throughout our vitality financial system and can speed up breakthroughs of extra plentiful, inexpensive, and dependable clear vitality options inside the decade. The Clear Fuels & Merchandise Shot goals to dramatically decarbonize the transportation and chemical industries by way of a staged RD&D technique that can present the applied sciences vital to chop GHG emissions and set up the US as a world chief in clear gasoline and clear carbon-based chemical manufacturing. The Industrial Warmth Shot goals to develop value aggressive industrial warmth decarbonization applied sciences with at the least 85 p.c decrease greenhouse fuel emissions by 2035.

DOE is dedicated to investing in daring industrial decarbonization applied sciences at every stage of the innovation pipeline. Study extra about DOE’s all-hands-on-deck technique to decarbonize the U.S. industrial sector.

Information merchandise courtesy of U.S. DOE.