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Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. March 15, 2023 Funding Updates  DOE Launches Prize to Strengthen Microelectronic Supply Chains Through Microbattery Design and Commercialization EERE's Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office launched the Microbattery Design Prize. This two-stage competition will award up to $1.1 million in federal funding, as well as performance and safety testing services with the U.S. National Laboratories, to innovative, small-capacity battery design projects that yield improved performance, safety, and recyclability. Phase 1 applications are due by July 1. Renewable News Request for Information: Solar Fuels and Solar Thermal Energy Storage EERE's Solar Energy Technologies Office requests feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on the technology needs and cost targets for renewable fuels produced using solar-thermal energy and thermal energy storage. Responses are due by April 14. DOE and Tennessee Valley Authority Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Hydropower Technologies EERE's Water Power Technologies Office and the Tennessee Valley Authority announced a memorandum of understanding to enhance collaboration on hydropower technology development. This joint effort will focus on evaluating and demonstrating different methods for operating hydropower plants to meet the electricity grid's changing needs. Distributed Wind Energy Brings Value to Remote and Rural Communities A four-year study, called the Microgrids, Infrastructure Resilience, and Advanced Controls Launchpad project, found that distributed wind energy could be a cost-effective source of clean power to many communities in remote and rural areas. For example, it's already making a difference in remote St. Mary's, Alaska, where one wind turbine produces 50% of the town's annual power. Dual-Use Photovoltaic Technologies Dual-use photovoltaic (PV) technologies are a type of application where PV panels serve another function in addition to electricity generation. Learn how solar and agriculture can be co-located and how "floatovoltaics" make use of solar panels mounted on floating structures. Lithium is important to our clean energy future, especially in batteries. This critical material is currently produced almost entirely outside of the United States, but we could source our own by extracting it from geothermal brines at sites like California's Salton Sea. Read DOE's StoryMap to find out more about lithium and how we can produce it domestically. Events and Webinars  Remade Circular Economy Conference: Breakthrough Innovations through Sustainable Manufacturing March 20–21 | 8 a.m.–5 p.m. ET The REMADE Institute, in partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, will host the first REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit and Conference in Washington, D.C. Utilities, Commissions, and State DOTs: Working Together to Deploy EV Charging March 21 | 2 p.m. ET Join the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation to hear from a utility, a public utility commission, and state transportation department working to deploy electric vehicle charging infrastructure. ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit March 22 - 24 | 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ET This three-day conference and technology showcase in Maryland brings together experts from multiple disciplines to discuss U.S. energy challenges and the commercialization of transformational energy technologies. eProject Builder Greenhouse Gas Calculation Tool March 22 | 2 p.m. ET This training provides federal agencies with a user-friendly tool to estimate the annual greenhouse gas emissions impacts of proposed projects, incorporating the estimated project energy savings and information from EPA's Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database. Low-Income Residential Energy Efficiency Best Practices - Part 1   March 23 | 1 p.m. ET Learn about the levels of investment that can help low-income communities improve their residential energy efficiency and what have we learned from decades of work in this area. How Collegiate Competitions Expand Student Opportunities to Join the Renewable Energy Industry March 24 | 1 p.m. ET This webinar will provide an overview of three college-level competitions and present opportunities for interested schools to get involved. Check out the latest news from the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office. Subscribe to newsletter for updates related to innovation and adoption of technologies that reduce and eliminate industrial greenhouse gas emissions. SUBSCRIBE

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