DOE Announces $29.5M for Improved Bioenergy Resource Recovery and Conversion Systems

The DOE has awarded $29.5 million to 15 projects to improve the current science and infrastructure for utilizing waste streams, often disproportionately located in underserved communities, and support the development of improved organisms and inorganic catalysts for the production of valuable biofuels and bioproducts that can benefit the local energy economy. This effort will advance the Biden Administration’s goals to deliver an equitable, clean energy future, and put the US on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050.

These projects fall into four topic areas for the “FY22 Waste Feedstocks and Conversion R&D” funding opportunity. Projects awarded to EPSCoR jurisdictions include:

• Topic Area 1: Municipal Solid Waste Feedstock Technologies
  — University of KENTUCKY
  — IOWA State University

• Topic Area 3: Robust Catalytic Processes
  — Tallgrass MLP Operations, LLC (KANSAS)
  — University of ALABAMA