DOE Announces USD 41 Million for Renewable-to-Liquids Technology Development
The selected project teams will work to develop systems that operate at a renewable energy production site and use its electricity, carbon dioxide, and water to create liquids that can be used as renewable fuels.
August 05, 2024. By Abha Rustagi
Renewable energy resources are often not co-located with the current US power grid, and by enabling the transportation of sustainable fuels the selected projects can reduce interconnection barriers while helping cut emissions from hard to decarbonize industrial sectors.
“With today’s announcement, the Department of Energy charges forward on its mission of finding and elevating new technologies to ensure that the United States remains innovative and energy independent,” said US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.
“Renewables-to-liquids fuel production has the potential to boost the utility of renewable energy all while helping to lay the groundwork for the Biden-Harris Administration’s goals of creating a clean energy economy,” added Granholm.
The selected project teams will work to develop systems that operate at a renewable energy production site and use its electricity, carbon dioxide, and water to create liquids that can be used as renewable fuels or drop-in replacements for conventional fuels. The clean energy created can then be used throughout the United States for a variety of purposes including in tough-to-decarbonize sectors like transportation.
Current low-carbon fuels are expensive at around USD 10 per gallon. Producers who use cheaper electricity sources like wind and solar independent from the grid to create these fuels can achieve lower overall costs.
DOE’s Moonshot Factory, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), will manage these projects through its Grid-free Renewable Energy Enabling New Ways to Economical Liquids and Long-term Storage (GREENWELLS) program. GREENWELLS is the first time ARPA-E is supporting RtL approaches to create liquid fuels. Its objective is to develop systems that can economically store at least 50 percent of incoming intermittent electrical energy in carbon-containing liquids.
Projects selected to pursue these RtL systems are Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA), HeatPath Solutions (Lewis Center, OH) and Susteon (Cary, NC).
ARPA-E advances high-potential, high-impact clean energy technologies across a wide range of technical areas that are strategic to America's energy security.
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