DOE announces more than $21M for 30 clean energy projects
At 16 national laboratories working to advance clean energy solutions nationwide, 30 projects will split more than $21 million in funding recently announced by the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT).
These efforts underscore the Biden administration’s push on core commercialization challenges, and improving lab processes, accessibility to clean energy resources, lowering energy costs, pushing union jobs and getting the country to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. In this case, this will focus on six topics meant to address commercialization challenges, advance development of certain technologies and smoothing the processes driving clean energy solutions to market.
“As America transitions to a clean energy economy, it is vital that we reduce the time from when a clean energy technology is invented to when it’s available to consumers,” U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said. “DOE’s National Laboratories are developing landmark clean energy technologies that will lower energy costs for Americans, strengthen our nation’s economic stability, and continue to advance President Biden’s decarbonization goals.”
These lab projects were chosen as part of a Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) Base Annual Appropriations Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness (CLIMR) lab call. That lab call drew proposals to advance energy technologies and existing efforts to simplify commercialization processes, advance development of existing promising technologies and jumpstart development of new energy solutions. As a result, more than 39 partners will join the National Laboratories to advance these goals, and partnership projects will make up 80 percent of the total federal funding given to the CLIMR lab call.
