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DOE Seeks Input on $10 Million Energy Program

The U.S. Department of Energy is soliciting proposals from inventors, small businesses, and collaborative industry partnerships to accelerate the development and use of clean, energy-efficient technologies for a range of energy-intensive industries. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy is soliciting proposals from inventors, small businesses, and collaborative industry partnerships to accelerate the development and use of clean, energy-efficient technologies for a range of energy-intensive industries.

DOE announced four new solicitations that, when awarded later this year, will provide roughly $10 million for the targeted research, development, or demonstration of new and advanced industrial technologies. DOE is soliciting the proposals through its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).

According to Dan Reicher, assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, said these investments are an integral part of an ongoing program called Industries of the Future.

“This innovative, industry-government partnership is doing a great deal to improve the resource efficiency and competitiveness of some of our nation’s most energy-intensive industries,” Reicher said. These include agriculture, aluminum, chemicals, forest products, glass, metalcasting, mining, petroleum refining, and steel.

“A wide range of projects selected through the competitive solicitation process is addressing the high-priority technology needs identified in these roadmaps and many will provide benefits to other industries as well,” Reicher said.

The four competitive Inventions and Innovation solicitations, which opened May 7, are being offered by EERE’s Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) seek to boost efficiency by helping industrial partners develop their energy saving ideas. Successful applicants may now be awarded $40,000 to $200,000 to assist in developing and establishing the technical performance of their innovative ideas.

The higher amounts go to technologies in the later stages of development, Reicher said.

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