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A Message From Leadership
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg
Happy New Year. As we begin 2021, I would be remiss if I did not highlight a few of the incredible accomplishments that we have achieved over the past year.
We have lowered our trade deficits by nearly $12 million by increasing the nation’s LNG exports. We have made remarkable scientific and technical advances to increase petroleum recovery from reservoirs while reducing environmental impacts. In addition to supporting oil and gas innovations, FE committed to funding $176 million this year to support the development and advancement of CCUS technologies in over 100 R&D projects. And we have made a significant commitment to the development of hydrogen, the 21st century fuel.
As Acting Under Secretary of Energy and Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, it is my pleasure to have been part of this innovative team to strengthen American energy dominance and thank all of you for your support. I will miss the FE team!
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Fossil Energy Monthly Highlights
Department of Energy Issues Spanish Language Report on Benefits of U.S. Oil and Natural Gas
This month, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) released a Spanish-language version of our report, U.S. Oil and Natural Gas: Providing Energy Security and Supporting Our Quality of Life.
With more than 52 million Spanish speakers, America now has the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico. This report acknowledges the critical role that advanced energy technology innovation plays in maintaining U.S. economic success and providing a sustainable domestic energy supply for the future. It also recognizes the important benefits the oil and natural gas sector provides in the daily lives of all Americans, including our Spanish speakers.
DOE Announces $4 Million for Projects to Optimize Safe, Secure, and Verifiable Carbon Storage
Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced plans to make $4 million in federal funding available for cost-shared research and development of tools and methods to optimize safe, secure, and verifiable carbon dioxide (CO2) storage.
DOE’s Carbon Storage Program focuses on developing, testing, and verifying technologies and techniques that address challenges related to long-term, commercial-scale storage of CO2 in the deep subsurface. Key initiatives within the Advanced Storage R&D area include improvements to monitor the seal integrity of caprocks and to predict seismicity magnitudes and potential hazards before and during the injection of CO2.
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Department of Energy Extends Fourth Set of LNG Export Authorizations Through 2050
This month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) extended the terms of five long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) export authorizations through 2050. These actions follow several LNG export term extensions issued since October pursuant to an export term policy statement DOE finalized in July.
This month’s term expansions extend terms for the Southern LNG export facility operating in the state of Georgia, the Cameron LNG export facility operating in Louisiana, the Annova LNG project proposed in Texas, and Eagle LNG’s two small-scale facilities in Florida, including the Maxville facility currently in operation.
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DOE Invests Nearly $7.6 Million to Develop Energy Storage Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected 29 projects to receive nearly $7.6 million in federal funding for projects to advance energy storage technologies under the Funding Opportunity Announcement, Energy Storage for Fossil Power Generation.
Energy storage combined with fossil energy assets offers a suite of benefits to asset owners, the electric grid, and the Nation. These benefits include more reliable and affordable energy, a cleaner environment, and stronger power infrastructure. The selected projects will accelerate the development of technology options to manage the energy transition underway to decarbonize and increase the flexibility of fossil power generation and support the grid of the future with increasing variable renewable generation.
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 U.S. Department of Energy to Invest $6.4 Million to Develop Hydrogen-Fueled Turbines
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced $6.4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) FE-FOA 0002397, University Turbines Systems Research (UTSR) — Focus on Hydrogen Fuels.
The UTSR Program conducts cutting-edge research to increase the efficiency and performance of gas turbines while lowering emissions. Hydrogen production from fossil fuels, coupled with carbon capture, utilization, and storage, can generate low-cost hydrogen with net-negative carbon emissions.
This FOA focuses on fundamental and applied research to enable the use of hydrogen as a gas turbine fuel. Selected projects will support university-based R&D to resolve fundamental scientific challenges and applied engineering issues of combustion turbines fueled with pure hydrogen, hydrogen and natural gas mixtures, and other carbon-free hydrogen-containing fuels. The projects will study combustion issues in combined and in simple cycle applications.
The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects. The FOA will seek to fund laboratory/bench-scale R&D in three areas of interest (AOIs):
- AOI 1: Hydrogen Combustion Fundamentals for Gas Turbines. Research undertaken in this AOI will study the fundamental combustion phenomena of hydrogen-containing fuels, over a broad range of fuel compositions and combustion conditions.
- AOI 2: Hydrogen Combustion Applications for Gas Turbines. The goal of this AOI is to study hydrogen-containing fuel combustion phenomena under various gas turbine conditions. The research could be used to design stable, high-temperature, and low-emission gas turbine combustors for hydrogen-containing fuels.
- AOI 3: Hydrogen-Air Rotating Detonation Engines. This AOI aims to replace the existing deflagration combustion process with detonation, utilizing rotating detonation engines (RDEs) to increase the total pressure at the exit of the combustor and boost thermodynamic efficiency. Applications in AOI 3 must address issues related to RDE combustion and ultimate integration with turbomachinery for power generation.
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Next Month on Social Media
Be sure to follow FE on social media to keep up with next month's content. Here are the upcoming themes for February:
- National African American History Month
- National Energy Technology Laboratory innovations that #fuel our hearts with love
- National Engineers Week
Thanks for reading! See you next month.
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