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...
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 $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 $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation (Cliffs) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations (CFDA 81.255) federal grant program. The award will fund the retrofit of Cliffs' Middletown Works facility in Ohio, replacing the existing blast furnace with a 100% hydrogen-ready, flex-fuel, direct reduced iron (DRI) and two electric melting furnaces (EMF). This project aims to demonstrate a feasible pathway to significantly reduce...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) provides $21,962,062 to demonstrate a pathway in the Gulf Coast region to a profitable, equitable, and sustainable clean energy future. The project will leverage hydrogen as a clean, versatile energy carrier to transform and decarbonize industry, while generating new economic opportunities for historically underrepresented groups. Key sub-awardees include MHI...
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 $6,602,155 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087), will enable Power To Hydrogen LLC to demonstrate its advanced liquid alkaline-based electrolyzer cell design at a commercial-scale 250-kW stack module. The project aims to develop a U.S. supplier base capable of GW-scale manufacturing for key electrolyzer components, including...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), supports Real Alloy Recycling, LLC in designing, constructing, and operating a closed-loop salt slag recycling unit at their existing aluminum recycling facility in Wabash, Indiana. The project aims to divert approximately 70% of the facility's salt slag waste from landfills and instead process it into marketable products such as flux, aluminum...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087) provides $59,125,000 to Nextech Materials, Ltd. (doing business as Nexceris) to commercialize its high-temperature electrolysis stack technology. The primary goals are to: 1) establish pilot-scale solid oxide cell manufacturing capabilities, 2) automate stack manufacturing, and 3) expand stack testing...
The Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded a $99,739,322 Cooperative Agreement to Electric Hydrogen Co. under the Renewable Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.087). The goal of this 3-year project is to develop and pilot an automated, fully integrated manufacturing process for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, with the objective of scaling production capacity to 100MW PEM electrolyzer plants while reducing stack costs to...