The Department of Energy awarded a $386,595,646 Project Grant to The Dow Chemical Company under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253). The grant supports the demonstration of the technoeconomic viability of onshoring domestic manufacturing of low carbon electrolyte solvents for lithium-ion battery production. The project aims to create new value streams for electrolyte solvents while furthering the nation's self-reliance for...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $200,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.255) to Technip Energies USA, Inc. for the "Sustainable Ethylene from CO2 Utilization with Renewable Energy (SECURE)" project. The project, led by T.EN Stone & Webster Process Technology, Inc. in partnership with LanzaTech, plans to demonstrate an integrated process to utilize captured carbon dioxide from ethylene production by...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $50,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to 1Pointfive P2 LLC to construct the South Texas Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hub in Kleberg County, Texas. The project aims to demonstrate the processing, transport, geologic storage, and conversion of up to 1,000,000 metric tons per year of captured atmospheric CO2 using liquid sorbent DAC technology developed by Carbon Engineering, an affiliate of 1Pointfive. The...
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $122,043,705 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Braskem America, Inc. to retrofit and expand an existing ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) unit to meet lithium-ion battery separator (LIBS) quality specifications and increase the operating capacity from 22,500 to 40,000 metric tons per year. This project aims to expand the capacity and capabilities...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $331,885,548 Cooperative Agreement to Exxon Mobil Corporation for the Exxon Mobil Baytown Olefins Plant Carbon Reduction Project under the Clean Energy Demonstrations federal grant program (CFDA 81.255). This project aims to enable the use of hydrogen in place of natural gas across high heat-fired equipment for chemical and fuel production at the Baytown Olefins Plant, Chemical Plant, and Refinery. The project seeks to be the first large-scale...
The Department of Energy awarded a $467,176,894.64 Project Grant to Terravolta Resources LLC on January 1, 2025 under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253). The objective of the project is to construct and operate a commercial-scale lithium extraction and refining facility to produce battery-grade lithium from domestic brine resources. The project aims to strengthen U.S. manufacturing and energy supply chains, reduce foreign...
This $95,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) program supports Delek US Holdings, Inc. in designing and building a large-scale carbon capture pilot project at their Big Spring, Texas refinery. The key objectives are to capture 145,000 metric tons per year of CO2 from a fluid catalytic cracking unit stack using Svante's post-combustion capture sorbent technology, with plans to eventually expand the...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $99 million to support the STAR E-Methanol project led by Orsted Star P2X LLC. The project aims to use captured carbon dioxide from a local industrial facility to produce up to 300,000 metric tons of e-methanol per year, reducing the carbon footprint by 80% compared to traditional production methods. This project is expected to create 300 construction...
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $147,126,520 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications Program (CFDA 81.253) to Albemarle U.S., Inc. to retrofit a domestic manufacturing facility to produce up to 50 metric tons per annum of lithium metal anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. The facility will support the production of lithium metal anode materials for solid-state battery cell manufacturing for both light and...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $75,000,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) supports BASF Corporation in optimizing on-site syngas production from waste streams via plasma gasification at their Freeport, Texas facility. The project aims to reduce BASF's greenhouse gas and criteria air pollutant emissions, product carbon footprint, and natural gas consumption, while increasing the facility's competitiveness in the...