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Upcoming Deadlines |
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March 12, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET: Full applications due for 2024 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I Release 2 IEDO-Funded Topic Funding Opportunity.
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March 14, 2024, at 3 p.m. ET: Full applications due for 2024 Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness Lab Call.
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March 19, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET: Concept papers due for 2024 Energy- and Emissions-Intensive Industries Funding Opportunity (with full applications due June 11, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET).
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March 20, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET: Full applications due for 2024 Cross-Sector Technologies Funding Opportunity.
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Recent News & Announcements |
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Research Highlights & Project Updates |
On Jan. 25, 2024, IEDO announced an $83 million funding opportunity that will decrease emissions in the hardest-to-decarbonize industrial subsectors. To support this effort, IEDO is providing a forum where interested parties can add themselves to the Teaming Partner List. IEDO also recently released new community benefits plans guidance for IEDO FOA applications. Concept papers are due March 19, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. ET, and full applications are due June 11, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET.
On Jan. 25, 2024, IEDO announced $171 million for 49 projects that will reduce industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and move the nation closer to a net-zero economy. The 49 selectees represent high-impact, applied research, development, and pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration (RD&D) projects that will reduce energy usage and GHG emissions from high GHG-emitting industrial subsectors along with cross-sector industrial decarbonization approaches.
On Jan. 22, 2024, DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office issued a request for information on technology development needs and commercialization opportunities for receivers and reactors used in concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants for electricity generation and concentrating solar-thermal plants for solar industrial process heat generation. Members of the renewable energy industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other relevant organizations can respond by Feb. 20, 2024, at 5 p.m. ET.
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The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy’s (EERE) new Standard Scenarios Report provides a picture each year of where the U.S. electricity sector is heading. The report showcases a wide range of possible future scenarios, highlighting potential new clean energy capacity and the associated CO2 reduction outcomes. This is an important projection for the industrial sector because electrification is one of DOE’s key industrial decarbonization strategies. As the industrial sector works to electrify its emissions-intensive processes, it will be critical that the electricity sector of the future has the capacity to provide clean, low-carbon electricity. IEDO is pursuing industrial electrification through its newest institute, the Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon. Learn more about electrification for industrial emissions reduction in DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap.
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On Jan. 30, 2024, DOE’s Geothermal Technologies Office announced up to $31 million in total funding for a combined FOA to support two topic areas. The first topic area focuses on projects to address downhole cement and casing evaluation tools for use in high-temperature and hostile geothermal wellbores. Projects under this topic area will expand opportunities to tap firm, flexible, domestic geothermal energy nationwide and support DOE’s Enhanced Geothermal Shot™. The second topic area focuses on demonstration projects for low-temperature RTES technology with applications to industrial processes. Projects under this second topic area can help reduce emissions from energy-intensive industrial heating processes, spur RTES technology towards being a long-term, reliable decarbonization technology for U.S. industry and manufacturing, and support DOE’s Industrial Heat Shot™. Letters of Intent are due March 1, 2024, 5 p.m. ET, and full applications are due April 1, 2024, 5 p.m. ET.
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IEDO's commitment to building a clean, decarbonized industrial sector puts American communities at the forefront of our work, ensuring that we build an equitable, healthier future for all Americans. To achieve this impact, IEDO requires applicants to our FOAs to submit community benefits plans, which are evaluated as part of the full application review process.
Fellows not only contribute to solving one of the biggest challenges our country and the world are facing today—climate change—but they also learn how scientists can impact government policies, research initiatives, cross-sector and international partnerships, and more. Not to mention, fellows receive a competitive stipend, along with travel and other allowances, and develop a tight-knit, collaborative community with staff and former fellows in their “home” program. See what past fellows have done in our office and for opportunities to become a future fellow.
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Events & Opportunities |
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The Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit will be hosted at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. on April 2–4, 2024. This annual event for Better Buildings, Better Plants partners and other key stakeholders provides the opportunity for professionals to explore emerging technologies and share innovative strategies in energy efficiency, decarbonization, water, and waste reduction. Attendees take part in interactive sessions with industry experts and market leaders as well as multiple opportunities to network with peers. Register for the Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit.
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