DOE announces funding opportunity for Coal FIRST initiative
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) are committing $81 million in federal funding for research and development projects related to the Coal FIRST initiative.
The DOE’s Coal FIRST (Flexible, Innovative, Resilient, Small, Transformative) initiative seeks to develop the coal plants of the future that meet the needs of the grid and transportation sector, improve efficiency and reduce emissions, are smaller than today’s utility-scale coal-fired plants, and transform how coal technologies are designed and manufactured. Some designs may provide hydrogen to support transportation and industrial applications.
The projects will complete design development; host site evaluation and environmental information volume; an investment case analysis; and a system integration design study for an engineering-scale prototype of one of the following Coal FIRST power plant concepts:
• Flexible Ultra Supercritical (USC) Coal-Fired Power Plant,
• Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustor with Supercritical Steam Cycle Power Plant,
• Hybrid Natural Gas Turbine / USC Coal Boiler Power Plant,
• Flexible Gasification of Coal & Biomass to Generate Electric Power and a Carbon-Free Hydrogen Co-Product,
• Projects will be managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory.
The Office of Fossil Energy funds research and development projects to reduce the risk and cost of advanced fossil energy technologies.
