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A Quick Thanks To the 🎁 that Keeps on Giving: Our Stakeholders |
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The Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) had its first ever Stakeholder Listening Event last week! Our office understands that it’s important we continue to listen, learn, and incorporate feedback from our stakeholders, so we greatly appreciate the 300+ attendees who provided just that.
Over the two-day event, we discussed strategic opportunities for manufacturing innovations to drive industrial competitiveness of the U.S. energy industrial base. The future is looking very bright for U.S. energy manufacturing!
Look out for more details on this listening event in the new year. ✨
 We also recognized several stellar individuals for their excellent contributions in manufacturing innovation for our nation’s energy sector. Congrats to these folks!
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Impact Award - Jie Xiao (UW/PNNL), Dan Green (PseudolithIC), Keerti S. Kappagantula (PNNL), Alex Kitt (EWI)
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Innovation Award - Youngho Shin (ANL), Jim Davis (CESMII), John Dyck (CESMII), Haresh Malkani (CESMII), Aaron Fisher (LLNL), Ron O'Malley (MS&T), Andriy Palasyuk (Ames Lab), Santa Jansone Popova (ORNL)
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Commercialization Award - Eugene Beh (Quino Energy), Karin Lion (Activate), Julia Curley (EsterCycle), Megan O'Connor (Nth Cycle)
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Visionary Award - Thomas Lograsso (Ames Lab), Bill Peter (ORNL)
Now back to our regularly scheduled programing…
 Highlights
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These 11 Projects Will Help Advance Domestic Manufacturing of Batteries 🔋
AMMTO invested $25 million across 11 projects to advance materials, processes, machines, and equipment for domestic manufacturing of next-generation batteries. Batteries are critical for the next-generation technologies that will enhance energy affordability and increase our Nation’s overall energy security and independence. These projects aim to advance platform manufacturing technologies for batteries, enabling a highly controllable and transferable battery manufacturing process.
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$17 Million Awarded to Shore Up America's Energy Security with Robust Supply Chain for Critical Materials ⛓️
We announced $17 million across 14 projects that will accelerate critical materials innovation. These projects will also promote safe, sustainable, economic, and efficient solutions to meet current and future supply chain needs.
“DOE is helping reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign supply chains through innovative solutions that will tap domestic sources of the critical materials needed for next-generation technologies,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy, Jennifer M. Granholm. “These investments—part of our industrial strategy—will keep America’s growing manufacturing industry competitive while delivering economic benefits to communities nationwide.”
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Congratulations to the Final Winners of the Community Energy Innovation Prize!
 Earlier this month, DOE awarded more than $2 million to 19 teams at the Community Energy Innovation Prize (CEIP) Summit in Chicago for successfully completing the challenge to support innovation, entrepreneurship, capacity building, and economic development in communities historically underrepresented in energy funding.
The AMMTO-supported Manufacturing Ecosystem Track supports projects that advance energy manufacturing innovation ecosystems in historically underserved communities. Successful applicants will bring together public, private, and community stakeholders to address key barriers to advancing manufacturing innovation, business models, and market development.
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 Making It!
For as long as she can remember, Emilie Lozier has found comfort in science.
“As a child, if I got sick, I’d imagine my body fighting the germs,” explained Lozier. “Or if I worried that an asteroid might collide with Earth, my mom would assure me that there are people who study asteroids and can help us prepare in the unlikely event of a serious asteroid collision. Science helped me make sense of an often-unpredictable world.”
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Now, a current American Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology Policy Fellow at AMMTO, Lozier applies that same scientific curiosity to tackling energy technology and workforce challenges for a cleaner, greener future. Learn about her passion for advancing energy technology, fostering collaboration, and advocating for the people who drive the energy innovation transition.
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- EERE has kept busy! Read the 2024 Investment Snapshot to see how all EERE offices—including AMMTO—are delivering key benefits of energy innovations to Americans nationwide
- What is America’s most critical material? Check out our second Critical Materials 101 video for the full breakdown.
- $7 million was announced to advance high-performance computing for energy innovation as part of DOE’s High-Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) initiative. Full applications are due in March 2025.
- AMMTO is excited to work with the new CHIPS Manufacturing USA institute for Digital Twins called the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins USA Institute (SMART USA). Supported by the National Institute of Standards and Testing, ten of DOE’s National Laboratories will participate in the SMART USA.
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