Welcome to The Production Line – the new newsletter for the Office of Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization (IEDO)!
Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Decarbonization
February 16, 2023
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IEDO Newsletter – February 2023
Welcome to The Production Line – the new newsletter for the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO)!
The Production Line will continue to have much of the same information you were used to in the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) newsletter—including funding opportunities, recent news, and office highlights—with a focus on information that advances IEDO’s mission and goals to decarbonize the industrial sector and help usher in a new clean energy economy.
In this issue, there are a couple of recent opportunities we’d like to highlight:
Onsite Energy TAPs — We recently announced a funding opportunity to establish a new regional network of Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnerships (TAPs) to increase the adoption of onsite clean energy technologies. If you have onsite energy expertise and are interested in providing technical assistance to facilities in your region, learn more about how to apply or attend our upcoming webinar.
48C Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Tax Credits — Earlier this week DOE, in partnership with Treasury and IRS, announced the intent to release $4 billion in a first round of tax credits as part of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit Program. Tax credits are for projects that strengthen clean energy supply chains and U.S. industrial competitiveness. Eligible projects include those that reduce greenhouse gas emissions at industrial facilities. Projects in this category must re-equip an industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20 percent through the installation of one of more of the following:
- Low- or zero-carbon process heat systems.
- Carbon capture, transport, utilization, and storage systems.
- Energy efficiency and reduction in waste from industrial processes.
- Any other industrial technology designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The 48C program will provide an investment tax credit of 30% of qualified investments for certified projects that meet prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. Learn more about this tax credit and what it means for you.
DOE Announces Billions in Funding and Tax Credits to Spur American-Made Clean Energy Investments and Bolster Domestic Supply Chains
DOE is partnering with Treasury and IRS to implement two programs funded by the President’s Inflation Reduction Act: the Low-Income Communities Bonus Credit Program (48(e)), and the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C). DOE also opened applications for the $750 million Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to support industrial projects by small- and medium-sized manufacturers in energy communities. Learn more about these historic programs and how they could impact you.
DOE Awards $5 Million Towards Desalination Pilot Program to Advance Water Security
DOE, in partnership with the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) hub, announced eleven pilot projects across five states that have been selected for negotiation to develop pilot systems that will design, build, operate, and test desalination and water reuse treatment systems that produce clean water from non-traditional water sources, such as brackish water, seawater, produced and extracted water, and wastewater. Learn more.
DOE Announces $23 Million to Fund Onsite Energy Technical Assistance Partnerships
On Feb. 3, DOE announced a $23 million funding opportunity that will establish a regional network of Technical Assistance Partnerships (TAPs) to help facilities across the nation integrate the latest onsite energy technologies by providing specialized technical assistance. The TAPs will have expertise to advise on a wide variety of technologies, including battery storage, combined heat and power (CHP), district energy, fuel cells, geothermal, industrial heat pumps, renewable fuels, solar photovoltaics, solar thermal, thermal storage, and wind power. Learn more or register for an informational webinar.
DOE’s Selects Three Pre-Commercial Technologies and Host Sites to Decarbonize Industry
DOE recently announced three selections for Phase II of the Industrial Technology Validation (ITV) pilot. The ITV pilot objectively assesses the performance of emerging decarbonization technologies in industrial environments with a team of DOE National Lab experts. These efforts support and accelerate the deployment of high-impact technologies that will advance decarbonization of the industrial sector, a key pillar to achieving President Biden’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. Learn more.
DOE Releases Combined Heat and Power Market Sector Fact Sheets Series
DOE recently published a series of market sector fact sheets that highlights how combined heat and power (CHP) systems can economically meet the energy demands and resilience requirements of a variety of building types across the United States. The CHP Market Sector Fact Sheets include information on current and potential installations, sector-specific energy requirements, and individual CHP case studies.
RAPID Manufacturing Institute ChemE Cube Competition
The RAPID Manufacturing Institute is hosting a student competition to promote DOE’s clean energy education and workforce development goals. ChemE Cube is an annual student competition where undergraduate university teams design, build, and demonstrate a 1 cubic foot plant to produce a chemistry defined in the annual problem statement. Teams compete on cube performance via a head-to-head duel and promote their technology through a 1-minute ad, poster, and 20-minute 'shark tank' style pitch to a panel of mock investors. Access full competition materials, key 2023 competition dates, and learn how to participate: https://lnkd.in/gb-UnTqc
We’re Hiring: Join the IEDO team!
Check out these open opportunities:
- Energy- and Emissions-Intensive Industries Sr. Technology Manager
- Technical Project Officer
- Cross-Sector Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Technologies Technology Manager
- Energy- and Emissions-Intensive Industries Technology Manager
Watch DOE’s New Training Videos
DOE has added new training videos to its portfolio of Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis tutorials.
- Estimating Manufacturing Costs for Pre-Commercial Technologies introduces folks to techniques used to estimate manufacturing costs, including both capital expenses and operating expenses. It’s accompanied by a free Excel mini-tool that provides an example of how to estimate the potential labor costs for an early-stage technology using rules of thumb.
- Estimating Raw Material Embodied Energy & Emissions helps users understand and estimate the energy and emissions embodied into raw materials used to manufacture new products using techniques from environmental life cycle assessment (LCA). This tutorial leverages NREL’s free Material Flows Through Industrial (MFI) Tool along with DOE’s new MFI Data Extractor, an Excel mini-tool.
- Check out our six LCA & TEA training videos
In Case You Missed It: 2022 Year in Review
Read our Year in Review blog from Director Steve McKnight. He highlights IEDO’s accomplishments from last year and previews what to expect for 2023.
Did you know?
DOE's 50001 Ready Navigator, and online estimating an energy management system, now includes guidance for decarbonization?
Read the latest newsletter from the 50001 ready program.