Bioenergy Technologies Office
February 26, 2019
Collaboration Opportunity to Harness Top Algae Strains for Bioenergy
 Photo: discovr.labworks.org
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy is sponsoring a project called Development of Integrated Screening, Cultivar Optimization and Verification Research (DISCOVR), which is a multi-laboratory consortium including Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. DISCOVR has developed a standardized process for evaluating promising strains of algae to produce cost-effective bioenergy. The consortium is partnering with the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University to identify and test high productivity microalgae strains for year-round outdoor cultivation.
These national laboratories are inviting the algae industry and academia to contribute to research to find the best algae strains for biofuels and bioproducts, and to reduce the cost of producing bioenergy from algae feedstocks. One goal of the call for collaboration is to give industry and academia an opportunity to test their most promising algae strains in DISCOVR’s standardized system. This allows lab research to be scaled and tested outdoors in a systemic way, and also provides direct comparisons of the industry’s top-performing algae strains.
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