| | Welcome to The Production Line, a monthly snapshot of industrial innovation news delivered straight to your inbox. This month's newsletter will take approximately 8 minutes to read. Reach out to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office at iedo@ee.doe.gov with any industrial inquiries or suggestions. | | Recent News & Funding Opportunities | | Highlights Showcase Your Talent With the Framing the Future Photo Contest  There's just one week left for you to show us your industrial facilities and technologies! Through our Framing the Future photo contest, we want to highlight the amazing work that today's manufacturers and researchers are doing to save energy and reduce carbon emissions. All photographers—from amateur to professional—are invited to participate. Submit photos of the people and technologies that power the U.S. industrial sector by Nov. 21, 2024, for a chance to win $2,000 in one of six categories! | | | $430 Million To Accelerate Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing in Former Coal Communities  On Oct. 22, 2024, as part of the Biden-Harris administration's historic Investing in America agenda, DOE announced $428 million for 14 projects to accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing in 15 coal communities across the United States. The projects, led by small- and medium-size businesses in communities with decommissioned coal facilities, were selected by DOE's Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains to address critical energy supply chain vulnerabilities. In particular, two projects selected in this second round focus on reducing cement and concrete industry emissions, a core area for IEDO. | | | Coming Soon: Energy Storage Prize IEDO's Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize is coming soon and open to preregistration now. The prize is a $4.8 million challenge seeking cost-effective energy storage concepts for industrial facilities that enhance energy efficiency and industrial decarbonization across industrial sectors. Applicants are encouraged to submit thermal energy storage solutions across a range of temperatures of industrial relevance. | | Industrious: Corey Tyree—How a Kid From Appalachia Is Advancing Renewable Chemicals  Our latest Industrious profile series features Corey Tyree, who launched Trillium Renewable Chemicals, Inc., in 2021 to meet the growing demand for renewable chemicals in chemical manufacturing. Growing up in rural Kentucky, Corey didn't meet many professional engineers or entrepreneurs. Corey pursued a chemical engineering degree out of curiosity about the unknown. In 2022, that curiosity paid off, as Trillium was awarded DOE funding to scale up and de-risk a low-carbon version of acrylonitrile—a chemical used to create materials for cars, electronics, aerospace, toys, apparel, sporting goods, and water treatment. | | | Sunvapor's Industrial Decarbonization Technology—From Fuel to Nuts  Watch this new video featuring the latest successes of the Solar Energy Technologies Office awardee, Sunvapor, whose concentrating solar power technology is helping decarbonize several industrial sectors, including chemical processing, fuel production, and food processing. | | | MPR News Highlights Industrial Decarbonization Project On Oct. 4, 2024, MPR News published an article on a Fiscal Year 2023 Industrial Decarbonization funding opportunity announcement selection, Scale-up and Demonstration of a Carbon Neutral Engineered Material to Displace Fossil Carbon in Electric Arc Furnace Steel Mills. The University of Minnesota has been collaborating with Nucor to develop a carbon-neutral fuel and feedstock replacement for fossil fuels in electric arc furnace steel production. By storing atmospheric carbon, biomaterials provide a promising route to carbon-neutral industrial production. | | Newly Released Topics for Small Business Funding Opportunity Small businesses play a major role in spurring innovation and creating jobs in the U.S. economy. The DOE Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs have helped thousands of American small businesses and entrepreneurs develop a range of cutting-edge technologies and transform science and technology breakthroughs into viable products and services. Through the SBIR and STTR programs, IEDO supports small businesses that improve energy efficiency, material productivity, and drive U.S. industrial decarbonization and competitiveness for American manufacturers. For the latest SBIR/STTR solicitation, which will be released on Dec. 16, 2024, IEDO is seeking applications in the following subtopics: - Destruction Technologies for PFAS in Biosolids
- Reducing Environmental Impacts of Chemicals Manufacturing
- Thermal Management and On-Site Energy Technologies for Data Centers
- Industrial Thermal Performance Efficiency (EES).
| | In Case You Missed It  On Oct. 8, 2024, DOE announced more than $43 million in selected projects to support the development of transformational technologies essential for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions across industrial subsectors. With 16 projects selected as part of a $38 million funding opportunity on cross-sector technologies and five projects selected for $5 million in partnership with the Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon (EPIXC) Institute, these investments will drive industrial emissions down while increasing America's manufacturing competitiveness in global markets. DOE's investments in cross-sector technologies address common decarbonization challenges across the U.S. industrial sector. |  DOE's 50001 Ready Program is a self-paced, no-cost way for organizations to build a culture of structured energy improvement that leads to deeper and sustained savings that does not require any external audits or certifications. On Oct. 16, 2024, local news station, KTVB, from Boise, Idaho, recognized that a total of 15 facilities in the Boise School District have been recognized as "50001 Ready" by DOE. | Review highlights from DOE's Better Plants program's sessions at the Association of Energy Engineers World Conference this year, where the 2024 theme was energy solutions for global challenges. This year, DOE solicited partners for the Better Plants track, Lessons From Leaders in Industrial Decarbonization, and hosted a luncheon to recognize Better Plants and Better Climate Challenge partners who have reached their goals. | | Upcoming Events & Opportunities Register for the Better Plants program's virtual training on industrial steam systems. This virtual training will be performed by industrial experts and technical account managers using online video communication technologies. The 2.5-hour online training will be delivered on every other Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time for four weeks. Participation in these virtual trainings is free and open to all members of the U.S. manufacturing industry.
Register for the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation's upcoming expert panel discussion on how the United States can leverage opportunities to develop cleaner industries that are more globally competitive. IEDO Director Avi Shultz will be a keynote speaker at this event.
Register to attend an informational webinar on the newly released topics for the small business funding opportunity from the latest SBIR/STTR solicitation.
Register by Dec. 3, 2024, to attend Deploy24, the second annual gathering of leaders, experts, and decision makers from across the private sector, government, and broader stakeholder ecosystem focused on accelerating deployment of clean energy and decarbonization technologies and enabling supply chains in the United States. Hosted by DOE, Deploy24 is about building momentum by building trust, understanding, and shared commitment across sectors.
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