This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), provides $500,000,000 in funding to Century Aluminum Co to commence commercial operations of a new primary aluminum smelting and processing facility. The key objectives of the project include: Commissioning and successfully testing a new 500,000 ton per year aluminum smelting facility that integrates best-in-class commercial technology and the ability to use...
This $9,400,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program will fund research, development, and validation of sustainable technologies to advance industrial decarbonization. The primary recipient, Resource Chemical Corp, will focus on cross-sector approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in high-emitting industries such as chemicals,...
This $12,286,600 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program supports a nationwide collaboration between industry and academia to pioneer an industrial-scale demonstration of alternative injectant refining and electromagnetic stirring (EMS) electric arc furnace (EAF) operation in the U.S. The project aims to enable complete decarbonization of the EAF...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $44,714,384 Cooperative Agreement to Golden Aluminum Inc. under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to demonstrate the NexCast-Caster, a groundbreaking continuous cast equipment, as an alternative to the energy-intensive direct-chill casting process for producing flat-rolled, low-carbon aluminum products. The project aims to increase scrap usage, reduce natural gas consumption and associated emissions, and advance the aluminum industry's...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $270,000,000 in funding to Wieland North America Recycling LLC to expand the capacity and capabilities of a copper recycling facility in Shelbyville, KY. The project aims to enable the production of 99.99% pure refined copper ingot, copper wire for electric vehicles, and copper cathode, thereby reducing the need for copper derived from mining. The...
This $17,547,861 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (under CFDA 81.086 - Conservation Research and Development) aims to advance solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) steam and co-electrolysis technologies from TRL 4 to TRL 6. The project will design, install, and demonstrate a 250 kW SOEC system integrated with an existing 1.6 million ton per year direct reduction of iron (DRI) facility in Toledo, OH. Key objectives...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) aims to significantly increase battery collection and reduce fire risks and environmental contamination in Allen County, Indiana. The $1,738,678 project, awarded on January 1, 2025, with a completion date of December 31, 2025, seeks to: 1) double the annual battery collection; 2) reduce fire incidents caused...
This $15,213,183 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, aims to decarbonize electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking by using CO2-sourced graphite electrodes. The project, led by Seerstone Development LLC, a woman-owned small business located in Provo, Utah, will research and develop innovative technologies to enable the use of CO2-derived...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $75,000,000 to Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC to demonstrate its SmartMelt technology. The SmartMelt system is a single aluminum remelt facility capable of operating on a range of low-NOx, reduced-CO2 emission fuels, including natural gas and carbon-free hydrogen. This will enable Constellium to replace three existing direct chill casting...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $6,740,943.00, was granted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The funding supports the construction of a demonstration-scale modular rare earth metals, alumina, and lithium carbonate production plant from bituminous coal underclay. The project, to be performed in Pittsburgh, PA, will run from October 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025....