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Meet the Team Spotlights |
In March 2024, Paul Gauche joined DOE as IEDO’s new deputy director. In this role, Paul is helping to lead IEDO’s strategic work with industry, academia, and national laboratories to advance the technology for industrial decarbonization. Previously, Paul served as the founder and managing director of Stellenergy, LLC, focusing on industrial decarbonization technology development. Prior to founding his own company, Paul served as executive vice president at Heliogen, Inc. and also as manager of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility at Sandia National Laboratories.
On March 25, 2024, IEDO launched the Industrious profile series, which highlights outstanding individuals working with IEDO to implement meaningful change in the industrial sector. The first profile features Sridhar Seetharaman, who leads DOE’s newest Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute, Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon. This institute is working to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions by tackling an especially energy-intensive manufacturing method called process heating. In this Q&A interview, Seetharaman discusses his background and how he developed a passion for decarbonizing the industrial sector.
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Read the first Industrious profile series Q&A interview!
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On March 8, 2024, DOE announced $425 million in funding to reduce industrial emissions and advance clean energy manufacturing essential to the U.S. energy supply chain as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the Advanced Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program will support small and medium-sized manufacturers in current and former coal communities that are focused on producing and recycling clean energy products, as well as investing in decarbonization at their facilities. This opportunity builds on a successful first round of investments in 2023, representing $275 million of federal investments across seven selected projects in seven states. Concept papers, which are required, are due April 22, 2024, before 5 p.m. ET. Full applications are due June 24, 2024, before 5 p.m. ET.
Explore the 33 projects across more than 20 states that have been awarded $6 billion on March 25, 2024, as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, to decarbonize energy-intensive industries, reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions, support good-paying union jobs, revitalize industrial communities, and strengthen the nation’s manufacturing competitiveness. The projects announced today are part of the Industrial Demonstrations Program and will help strengthen America’s manufacturing and industrial competitiveness. Funding for these projects includes $489 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and $5.47 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act.
On March 11, 2024, DOE announced it would provide $5.2 million in funding to 13 projects through its High Performance Computer for Energy Innovation program to advance performance, efficiency, and vitality of the U.S. manufacturing sector and drive economywide decarbonization. These short-term, collaborative projects between industry members and DOE’s national labs will apply advanced modeling, simulation, and data analysis to projects that improve manufacturing efficiency and explore new materials for clean energy applications. IEDO is funding projects focused on industrial decarbonization, specifically in zero-carbon steel making, magnesium metal production reactor systems, and thermal barrier coatings optimized for hydrogen combustion.
How do we decarbonize the chemicals sector? The answer is as complex as the challenge itself. The chemicals industry converts raw materials into over 70,000 different products. It is incredibly diverse, and interconnected, with changes in feedstocks and upstream chemicals triggering a ripple effect down the value chain. Rather than focusing solely on a small number of high-volume building block chemicals, IEDO is pursuing a wide range of decarbonization technology solutions across the entire chemicals value chain. Lean more about the sustainable chemicals value chain IEDO envisions for our future, and apply to IEDO’s 2024 2024 energy- and emissions-intensive funding opportunity to help decarbonize the full chemical value chain.
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In Case You Missed It |
The 50001 Ready team unveiled its latest project, the Energy Management Systems Insights Database, which is an innovative platform you can use to improve your understanding of and access to global successes in energy management. The database is meant to serve as a comprehensive repository of case studies, which offer detailed insights into real-world implementations, providing invaluable information on the energy, emissions, and cost savings of successful energy management systems.
On Feb. 21, 2024, the Manufacturing Masterminds series, which profiles some of National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s outstanding researchers in advanced manufacturing, showcased Kerry Rippy in an Q&A interview. In this interview, Rippy, who works on IEDO-funded projects, explains why she chose chemistry over literature, why carbon capture cannot be our only decarbonization solution, and how the mining industry could reduce emissions with the rocks it already digs up.
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Upcoming Events & Job Openings |
DOE is offering a weekly virtual training on 50001 Ready March 28–May 16, 2024. The training will be performed by industrial experts and technical account managers and focus on the basics of the ISO 50001 standard using DOE's 50001 Ready energy management system in eight 2.5-hour online training sessions (a 2-hour formal training and an optional half-hour Q&A) delivered every Thursday at 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ET for eight consecutive weeks. Participating in this training is free and open to all U.S. manufacturers. This event will prepare participants to start implementing ISO 50001 practices and even achieve 50001 Ready recognition.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will host the Clean Fuels & Products Shot™ Summit on April 8, 2024, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. ET, and April 9, 2024, 11 a.m.– 4 p.m. ET. Register to attend this two-day virtual summit and learn more about the research, development, and demonstration strategy to establish the United States as a world leader in clean fuel and clean carbon-based chemical production.
Register to join the summit!
May 14–15, 2024: Save the Date for a Workshop to Inform DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Strategies
On May 14–15, 2024, DOE will host a workshop in Washington, D.C., to solicit input from stakeholders across the industrial sector to inform a new DOE analysis, Transforming Industry: Strategies for Decarbonization. These strategies will build upon the 2022 Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap, the Pathway to Commercial Liftoff: Industrial Decarbonization Report, and other DOE analyses to present the critical technologies needed to pursue, in parallel, to decarbonize the industrial sector. DOE will present the framing, approach, and initial results and provide stakeholders across industry, academia, and government with an opportunity to provide feedback and help shape the strategies. More information on how to register coming soon.
RAPID® will host a facilitated workshop on technology valuation supporting the roadmapping efforts for the new phase of RAPID. Over 1.5 days, the event will feature invited speakers, panels and discussions that will set the stage for the facilitated roadmapping workshops each afternoon. The resulting roadmap aims to inform best practices and methodologies in process technology valuation (e.g., techno-economic analyses, life cycle assessments, Tech2Market, readiness levels) and tools (e.g., simulation, optimization, data, artificial intelligence and machine learning) to support the decarbonization of the chemicals and fuels industries. The roadmaps will be key to the development of the updated RAPID continued (re)evaluation to be used in technology projects to ensure they are (still) in line with the mission of the institute as we progress.
RAPID® will host a facilitated workshop on technology valuation supporting the roadmapping efforts for the new phase of RAPID. Over 1.5 days, the event will feature invited speakers, panels and discussions that will set the stage for the facilitated roadmapping workshops each afternoon. The resulting roadmap aims to inform best practices and methodologies in process technology valuation (e.g., techno-economic analyses, life cycle assessments, Tech2Market, readiness levels) and tools (e.g., simulation, optimization, data, artificial intelligence and machine learning) to support the decarbonization of the chemicals and fuels industries. The roadmaps will be key to the development of the updated RAPID continued (re)evaluation to be used in technology projects to ensure they are (still) in line with the mission of the institute as we progress.
The AIChE Institute for Sustainability and RAPID® will host a special edition of International Congress on Sustainability Science & Engineering on the topic of industrial decarbonization supporting the roadmapping efforts for the new phase of RAPID®. It will be dedicated to advancing ambitious industrial decarbonization objectives within the U.S. fuels and chemical industries, leveraging the fundamental RAPID principles of process intensification and modularization. Beyond these core principles, the conference will delve into the pivotal role of digitalization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, education, workforce development, and diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility (DEIA) in the pursuit of decarbonization across various industrial sectors. Engaging invited talks and panel discussions will set the stage for insightful conversations, complemented by hands-on facilitated roadmapping workshops each day.
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June 2024: Safe the Date for Scaling Sustainable Chemistry for an Industrial Transformation
In June 2024, DOE, in partnership with Change Chemistry, will convene an interagency summit on scaling sustainable chemistry solutions for industrial transformation, enabling more secure chemical sector supply chains and environmental justice. This summit will focus on the technologies, policy and regulatory reforms, and collaborations needed to scale sustainable chemistry from the lab to the marketplace. More information on how to register coming soon.
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