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The Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Tallgrass MLP Operations, LLC $1.6 million under the Renewable Energy Research and Development federal grant program (CFDA 81.087) for a Cooperative Agreement from October 1, 2022 to October 10, 2022. Under this award, Tallgrass MLP Operations will demonstrate robust engineered catalysts for converting ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel via an oxygenate intermediate. The Renewable Energy Research and...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $4,999,500 Cooperative Agreement to Susteon Inc., a minority-owned technology company based in Morrisville, North Carolina. The purpose of this 3-year award, which began on September 11, 2024, is to develop a novel, inexpensive, and modular technology platform for producing sustainable aviation fuel and other valuable chemicals from CO2 and renewable electricity. The project, titled "ECHO-SAF:...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E, CFDA 81.135) provides $210,526 to Washington State University (WSU) to develop a dynamic carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation process that converts CO2 and hydrogen (H2) into liquid hydrocarbons using renewable energy sources. The project leverages advancements in reactor technology and catalyst development to address the intermittency of power generation from off-grid...

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory awarded Jetzero, Inc. a $10,830,327.73 Project Grant under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant program (CFDA 20.115). The three-year grant, running from January 2, 2025, to December 31, 2027, focuses on developing "Blended Wing Body Lightweight Stitched Composite Structures" to advance sustainable aviation...

The University of Maine System (UMS) received a $10,000,000 five-year federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program to advance technologies that co-produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and fish feed ingredients from low-grade woody biomass. Key objectives of the project include: 1) developing AI-based models to optimize hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) processes for converting woody biomass into SAF, 2)...

The Arcadia Efuels Project is a $19,502,000 project grant awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emissions Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program (CFDA 20.115). The funding supports Arcadia Efuels US Inc.'s development of net-zero carbon emission fuels for aviation, with the goal of advancing sustainable aviation technologies to reduce carbon emissions in the...

This $800,000 project grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) federal grant program (CFDA #10.310) will fund research at Georgia Tech Research Corporation and the University of New Haven to develop new catalytic processes for converting lignin byproducts from biorefineries into high-value chemicals and sustainable aviation fuel. Specifically, the awardee and sub-awardee will work to...

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded Alder Energy, LLC a $4,957,452 Cooperative Agreement on October 1, 2023 under the Renewable Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.087) program. This two-month award tasks Alder Energy, a for-profit limited liability company, with performing techno-economic analyses on the capital and operating costs of converting alder tree biocrude oil, agricultural residues, waste streams, and other biomass feedstocks...

This Cooperative Agreement award from 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) provides $5,000,000 in funding to West Virginia University Research Corporation to design and validate an innovative system prototype for producing green hydrogen. The project focuses on integrating high-temperature solid oxide electrolysis (HTSE) with solar concentrator-thermal energy storage (TES)...

This $1,250,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) is funding Global Algae Innovations, Inc., a small disadvantaged business, to develop and demonstrate an integrated process for producing algal-based polyurethane consumer products from flue gas carbon dioxide. The key objectives include: 1) scaling up algal oil extraction and fatty acid separation, 2) optimizing the...