From awarding more than $10 million in funding to three projects to announcing our intent to fund up to $900 million to support initial U.S. deployments of Gen III+ Small Modular Reactor technologies, June was a busy month for OCED. See what we’ve been up to in our June newsletter: https://lnkd.in/e5EJdh7i
DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
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Funding large-scale demonstration projects to unlock clean energy investment and support an equitable energy transition
About us
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) established the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) in December 2021 to help scale the emerging technologies needed to tackle our most pressing climate challenges and achieve net zero emissions by 2050. OCED is managing more than $25 billion in funding to deliver clean energy demonstration projects at scale in partnership with the private sector to accelerate deployment, market adoption, and the equitable transition to a decarbonized system. OCED is a multi-technology office with demonstrations that include clean hydrogen, carbon management, advanced nuclear reactors, long-duration energy storage, and industrial decarbonization, as well as demonstration projects in rural or remote areas and on current and former mine land. These technologies face significant barriers to scale and OCED’s role is to address these barriers and help de-risk them. OCED will prove the effectiveness of these technologies in real world conditions at scale to pave the way towards widespread adoption and deployment. Most of OCED’s projects are structured as collaborative partnerships that use cost share agreements. OCED will provide up to 50 percent of the funding in its public-private partnerships, assisting its industry partners with the early steps to commercialization and deployment. All OCED-funded projects will address the Energy and Environmental Justice and Justice40 Initiative; Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility; Community, Labor, and Tribal engagement; and Quality Jobs. Are you looking to make a meaningful contribution to the clean energy transition? Come join us!
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External link for DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
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Award Wednesday Announcement! OCED awarded $1M in federal funding (of the total federal cost share of up to $10 million) to the Long-Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Demonstrations Program's Communities Accessing Resilient Energy Storage (CARES) project, led by ReJoule, to begin planning activities in Phase 1. The CARES project plans to demonstrate ways to maximize the value of used batteries by repurposing lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles to build modular energy storage systems for behind-the-meter microgrid installations. The installations will vary in size and usage and have the potential to demonstrate a diverse portfolio of repurposed lithium-ion batteries with 10+ hours of continuous discharge, support larger microgrids and grid storage, and offer a clean-energy alternative to fossil fuel-powered peaker plants. The CARES project will be located in Red Lake Nation, MN; Santa Fe, NM; and Petaluma, CA. To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA
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🗓️ WEBINAR TODAY: Plan to join DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) and Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy for an informational webinar about the DOE’s recent Notice of Intent to fund up to $900M to catalyze the deployment of Generation III+ Small Modular Reactors. Webinar starts at 1 p.m., ET. Register here: https://lnkd.in/ee7MnKUA
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Award Wednesday Announcement! OCED awarded $12.5M (of the total federal cost share of up to $270 million) to the Carbon Capture Demonstration Project Program’s Baytown Carbon Capture and Storage Project, led by Calpine Texas CCUS Holdings, an indirect subsidiary of Calpine, to begin activities in Phase 1. Calpine plans to build a carbon capture demonstration facility that would capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the Baytown Energy Center, a natural gas combined power plant in Baytown, Texas. During Phase 1, Calpine will complete an integrated Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study to determine the specifications for CO2 capture, transport, and storage components. During this phase, the project team will also start workforce planning, project permitting, and complete a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review process. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/ex-wrZJ4. To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA
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Today, OCED issued a Notice of Intent for up to $100M to fund pilot-scale energy storage demonstration projects, focusing on non-lithium technologies, long-duration (10+ hour discharge) systems, and stationary storage applications. With this funding, OCED aims to support the advancement of a diverse set of long-duration energy storage (LDES) technologies towards commercial viability and utility-scale deployment, an integral ingredient in a clean, reliable grid system to achieve a net-zero emissions clean energy economy. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eMgfbm5j
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Award Wednesday Announcement! OCED awarded nearly $1M (of the total project federal cost share of up to $10 million) to the Long-Duration Energy Storage Demonstrations (LDES) Program's Second Life Smart Systems (SMART) project, led by Smartville Inc. With the growing supply of retired EV batteries that still hold energy value, and sustained demand for energy storage systems, Smartville’s second-life battery solution was designed to repurpose spent EV batteries and unlock their untapped value. The SMART project aims to demonstrate the viability of repurposed lithium-ion electric vehicle (EV) batteries in LDES systems across a range of use cases, environments, and sizes—from smaller scale (50kW x 10 hour) to larger scale (200kW x 10 hour). Across its several locations, the SMART project plans to improve grid resilience, support EV charging, facilitate clean energy technologies for use in a town renovation project, and offer educational and training opportunities at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eRr6qP6X To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA
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Award Wednesday (our office was out in observance of Juneteenth)! OCED awarded nearly $5.5M to the Long-Duration Energy Storage Demonstrations (LDES) Program's Pumped Thermal Energy Storage in Alaska Railbelt (POLAR) project, led by Westinghouse Electric Company in collaboration with Echogen Power Systems. The project will build a Pumped Thermal Energy Storage system at a power plant in Healy Alaska that is slated to retire one of its two coal-fired generation units. The POLAR project will work with a planned wind power system at the plant to fill the gap in power generation with clean, reliable energy that will bring economic benefits and offer improved air quality to the region. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eyshB6Pu To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA
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New Funding Coming Soon: DOE plans to release a new funding opportunity for up to $900M to build and deploy a new Gen III+ Small Modular Reactor. Strengthening the domestic nuclear industry to spur follow-on reactor projects is vital to meeting our nation’s growing demand for clean, reliable power, achieving a net-zero emissions economy, and creating high-paying, quality jobs for American workers. View the Notice of Intent here: https://lnkd.in/eTHavaKT. Register to attend the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/ee7MnKUA
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Exciting News! Today, winners were announced for Round 1 Phase 2 of the Manufacture of Advanced Key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (MAKE IT) Prize Strategies Track! Each of the seven winners were awarded $100,000 and will move forward to Phase 3: Activate. The MAKE IT Strategies Track is a community-focused prize intended to engage regional stakeholders to promote clean energy manufacturing, economic development, growth, and opportunities. In Phase 2, teams submitted strategic concept roadmaps, including proof of community engagement and potential manufacturers to partner with in their region. Meet the winning teams and see what’s next: https://bit.ly/3Xjp2yj #energy #competition #manufacturing #innovation City of Beatrice, Nebraska, NextCorps, City of Tulsa, City of Pittsfield, City of Rochester
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This week, OCED finalized its agreement for the Design Phase of the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs Program Demand-Side Initiative with the EFI Foundation and the H2DI Consortium. Through this agreement, OCED will work with H2DI this year to design mechanisms to grow demand for and de-risk H2Hub projects. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eu2D4zhX Learn more about the H2DI Consortium here: https://h2di.org To stay up-to-date on all future awards, funding opportunities, news announcements, upcoming events, and more, sign up for our newsletter! https://lnkd.in/eDJVVENA
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