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

Your Input Needed! OCED seeks public input on ways to support commercialization efforts for Direct Air Capture facilities. Submit your feedback here: https://lnkd.in/eAQY4UBT

This week, OCED awarded a process heat project from the Industrial Demonstrations Program with more than $588,000 out of the total federal cost share of up to $51.2 million to install electric boilers and a microgrid consisting of a 21 MW solar array and 20.5 MW battery energy storage system. 🔋 ⚡    The project aims to demonstrate the viability of a microgrid system to decarbonize process heat emissions and prove out its applicability to a wide range of manufacturing processes.     Learn more about this week’s awarded project: https://lnkd.in/emXJKJEP   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  #CleanEnergy #DOE #Innovation

📅Happening Today! Informational webinar at 1 p.m. ET on the Generation III+ Small Modular Reactor funding opportunity. OCED and Office of Nuclear Energy | U.S. Department of Energy teamed up to provide up to $900 million to catalyze the deployment of Generation III+ small modular reactors in the United States. 💻 Today’s webinar will provide an overview of the funding opportunity, eligibility, next steps, and additional resources. Register to watch 👉 https://lnkd.in/egGKMGVy #AdvancedNuclear #CleanEnergy #NuclearEnergy

🚨New Funding Alert! 🚨  Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $900 million to support the initial domestic deployment of Generation III+ small modular reactor technologies. OCED is collaborating with Office of Nuclear Energy | U.S. Department of Energy to strengthen America’s nuclear sector and spur follow-on advanced reactor technologies that are crucial to meeting our nation’s growing demand for clean, reliable power, while creating new high-quality jobs and reinforcing America’s leadership in the nuclear industry. Review the funding opportunity and apply by January 17, 2025 👉 https://lnkd.in/eeJsnEbE  Register for the Informational Webinar on October 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM ET 💻 https://lnkd.in/egGKMGVy

This week, OCED awarded a cement project from the Industrial Demonstrations Program with more than $1 million out of the total federal cost share of up to $62 million to minimize the most carbon-intensive component in cement production, clinker, using calcined clays. The project anticipates that by making the switch, the cement facility could reduce its carbon intensity by approximately 83% compared to products with clinker.  Learn more about this week’s awarded project: https://lnkd.in/ezMGTVKv

Check out OCED’s latest monthly newsletter! The September edition highlighted 19 OCED awards for clean energy demonstration projects across the nation. But wait - there’s more! 1️⃣ Applications opened for up to $100 million in funding to support pilot-scale energy storage demonstration projects. 2️⃣ Notice of Intent for up to $1.8 billion for the design, construction, and operation of mid- and large-scale commercial direct air capture facilities and infrastructure scaling platforms. 3️⃣ Notice of Intent for up to $1.3 billion for transformative carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies. 4️⃣ Selection of three Distributed Energy Systems demonstration projects for up to $50 million in funding to help the U.S. develop a more responsive, resilient, and economical electric grid. Find out more about all of September’s announcements and awarded projects. Read our 18th issue: https://lnkd.in/e5xQhMyc

This week, OCED awarded four projects across two programs with more than $22 million out of the total federal cost share of up to $100 million. Three projects were awarded under OCED’s rural and remote program, which include deploying three forest biomass-to-energy power plants to help prevent against local forest fires and provide low-carbon, stable energy for three communities in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains; improving power resiliency at a Colorado water treatment plant by replacing an aging diesel generator with a microgrid, and creating a consortium of rural electric cooperatives to deploy microgrids in seven rural communities across the nation. OCED also announced its first project award under the U.S. Department of Energy / U.S. Department of Defense Long-Duration Energy Storage Joint Program, which plans to install a vanadium redox flow battery energy storage system at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in California, providing backup power and long-duration storage of solar power from a separate installation at the site. This project would help enhance energy resilience and demonstrate for the first time a more energy-dense electrolyte within the flow battery. Learn more this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/eJts3KUe 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 

📢 *New Funding Alert* 📢 Up to $400M in new funding for innovative, community-focused clean energy projects in rural and remote areas across the United States. Through this funding, OCED aims to support the deployment of a variety of commercially available, clean energy technologies, demonstrating the viability and benefits to rural and remote residents, and ultimately encouraging widespread adoption. Each project can receive anywhere from $2 million to $50 million in funding.    Concept papers are due February 27, 2025 and full applications are due August 28, 2025. View the funding opportunity for full details: https://lnkd.in/eMmfe-uF

This week, OCED awarded five projects across three programs with more than $8 million out of the total federal cost share of $224+ million. The Energy Improvements in Remote and Rural Areas program has two projects constructing microgrids to improve energy resilience, accessibility, and affordability for residents. Another project in Alaska includes plans to build a new run-of-the-river hydroelectric facility, replacing a 70+ year-old wooden dam and eliminating 100% of their microgrid’s diesel consumption.     In West Virginia, the Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land plans to convert two former coal mines into utility-scale, solar PV facilities—reducing development on sensitive lands, delivering clean power to communities, and contributing to regional economic revitalization.  Rounding out the week is a Texas-based project from the Industrial Demonstrations Program that would recycle liquid byproducts into syngas, resulting in a 75% decrease in CO2 emissions associated with select incineration processes at a manufacturing site. Learn more this week’s awarded projects: https://lnkd.in/gP7kzqyx Stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, subscribe here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA 

OCED is thrilled to announce it has selected three projects for award negotiations to accelerate our Distributed Energy Systems (DES) Demonstrations Program. These projects will help the U.S. to develop a more responsive, resilient, and economical electric grid that is critical to meeting the demands of an increasingly electrified world filled with electric vehicles, advanced industrial operations, smart technologies, and sizeable energy storage. As more sectors turn to electrification to decarbonize, the ability to manage a more diverse set of grid assets will add energy resilience in a time of increasing demand and disruption due to extreme weather events. By generating electricity near the communities where it will be used, distributed energy systems help communities: ⚡ reduce the impact of power outages and protect consumers from the harshest impacts of outages  ⚡ boost grid stability and reliability while potentially reducing costs for communities to maintain power  ⚡ become more energy resilient and secure against increasing climate vulnerabilities Learn more about the DES projects selected for award negotiations here: https://lnkd.in/ehG7iFwB