Cooperative Agreement DESC0003997

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corporation (Cleveland-Cliffs) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to retrofit the company's Middletown Works facility in Ohio. The project aims to replace the existing blast furnace with a 100% hydrogen-ready, flex-fuel direct reduced iron (DRI) and two electric melting furnaces (EMF). This demonstration project will validate a feasible pathway to significantly reduce...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $75,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the American Cast Iron Pipe Company (AMERICAN) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255). This funding will support AMERICAN's project to retrofit its Birmingham, Alabama facility by installing four 35-metric ton electric induction melting furnaces and three 165-metric ton electric induction holding furnaces. This project aims to shift AMERICAN's iron and steel production towards lower-carbon electric...

This $4,199,672 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), supports Project Tundra - an initiative to install post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage technology at the existing Milton R. Young Station coal power plant in North Dakota. The captured CO2 will be safely and permanently stored in geologic formations beneath the power plant and adjacent lignite mine. This demonstration...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $29,681,912 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations Federal Grant Program (CFDA 81.255) to Battelle Memorial Institute to develop the Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub (ARCH2). The project will establish ten hydrogen production facilities, one hydrogen storage facility with connected pipelines, and hydrogen offtake capability for multiple end-users. Hydrogen will be produced using auto-thermal reforming with carbon capture and...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations awarded Membrane Technology And Research, Inc. (MTR) a $9,305,920 Cooperative Agreement under the DOE's Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to produce a fully developed engineering package, commercial-quality budgets, and supporting studies for the Dry Fork Station Integrated Carbon Capture and Storage Project. This project aims to prepare the Dry Fork Station carbon capture and storage project for its...

This $500,000,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) supports Century Aluminum Co. in commencing commercial operations of a new primary aluminum smelting and processing facility. The key objectives include: Commissioning and testing a new 500,000 ton per year aluminum smelter that can integrate renewable wind/solar energy and modulate electrical load by 50-250 MW. Demonstrating the facility's ability to...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $282,853,384 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Vale USA LLC to construct a first-of-its-kind facility in the United States. The facility will manufacture a novel low-emissions cold-agglomerated iron ore briquette, which can be used as a cleaner alternative to traditional direct reduced iron (DRI) and blast furnace (BF) iron ore processes. The project aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions...

Under this $425,309 Cooperative Agreement awarded 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), the University of Dayton Research Institute will produce scalable performance and optimization tools for narrow-channel designs in particle-to-supercritical CO2 heat exchangers and for commercial-scale trough designs in multi-stage falling particle receivers. The project aims to...

The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $6,042,305 cooperative agreement to 8 Rivers Capital, LLC for Phase 2 of the FLECCS program. The goal of the project is to demonstrate the UNO Mk 3 carbon capture process on natural gas combustion emissions at the National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama. This is intended to reduce technical risks and accelerate commercialization of the UNO Mk 3 process for gas turbines. The 3-year project period runs from...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (CFDA 81.121 - Nuclear Energy Research, Development and Demonstration) provides $7,102,046.67 in funding to Purdue University to revitalize and improve university-led nuclear R&D infrastructure. The goal is to establish and enhance facilities, equipment, and capabilities to enable advanced reactor-relevant research, education, and workforce development prior to universities setting up new advanced research...