Office: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
FOA Number: DE-FOA-0002654
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Background Information
On August 31, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management’s (FECM’s) Carbon Utilization Program announced the selection of seven projects totaling $16.5 million in federal funding. Creating conventional petroleum-derived products requires significant energy and emissions. The carbon footprint of plastics alone, 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2015, shows the need for carbon neutral replacements.[1] Algae can grow on waste carbon dioxide, functioning as a carbon sink. This algae biomass can then be used to create low or no-emissions biofuels and bioproducts which displace GHGs. Biofuels and bioproducts made from algae–such as plastics, foams, and chemicals–can be direct replacements for so many different everyday products from flip flops to water bottles.
Selectees
The selected projects will increase the capability of algal systems to capture carbon dioxide and put it to productive use and deploy algal technologies that will help lower algal system cost, while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Selectees include:
- Colorado School of Mines
- Colorado State University
- Dioxide Materials
- Global Algae Innovations
- MicroBio Engineering
- University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
- Washington University in St. Louis
A detailed list of the selected projects can be found here.
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Last Updated: September 14, 2022