In the United States (US), the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) has announced US$41.4 million in federal funding for 50 impactful projects across 17 National Laboratories to propel clean energy solutions.
The funding is made available through the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Base Annual Appropriations Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) Lab Call.
The FY24 CLIMR Lab Call is the largest amount of funding yet and represents coordinated investments from the largest set of DOE program offices.
Announced in November 2023, the FY24 TCF Base CLIMR lab call invited proposals from National Laboratories to advance energy technologies and strengthen existing practices.
The TCF was established by Congress through the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and reauthorized by the Energy Act of 2020 to promote promising energy technologies. The selected projects will simplify commercialization processes, accelerate the development of existing promising technologies, and kickstart the development of new energy solutions.
OTT coordinates the TCF and strengthens DOE’s commercialization partnerships. OTT collaborated with fourteen DOE program offices for the FY2024 CLIMR lab call, including the Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO).
BETO-funded CLIMR projects included:
- Decarbonizing and improving the profitability of organic waste treatment through an innovative process and value chain with lead laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory;
- Integrated processing and hydrothermal pretreatment of corn stover into a second-generation ethanol facility with lead laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), and partner laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
