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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) held an informational webinar on Friday, May 10, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. ET, for the WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-Uses funding announcement opportunity (FOA). DOE announced up to $17.5 million in federal funding to develop cost-effective strategies for communities to sustainably manage and recover potential clean energy sources from their waste streams. This FOA will support municipalities and transit authorities with waste-to-energy solutions for converting organic waste into feedstocks for various clean transportation fuel products that can benefit the local energy economies.
Recognizing that communities may be at different stages in their sustainable waste management planning efforts, this FOA seeks a phased approach to address the above challenges through two Topic Areas:
- Topic Area 1: Feasibility Study Development Analyses will help move communities beyond a conceptualization phase and will include activities such as feasibility studies, identification of transportation use cases, and sustainability indicator baselining.
- Topic Area 2: Design Work and Experimental Validation will support and advance more detailed engineering design work for communities that are further along and may have already identified potential solutions for their waste/transportation needs. Projects selected under Topic Area 2 will have an opportunity to construct and operate their designed pilot facility based on the down-select process described in the FOA.
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