Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has announced up to $6 million available for research and development (R&D) projects that will repurpose domestic coal resources for products that can be employed in clean energy technologies such as batteries and advanced manufacturing. Expanding innovative uses for coal and coal wastes has the potential to create local job opportunities for power plant communities as our country transitions to a net-zero greenhouse gas economy.

NETL’s Reaction Analysis and Chemical Transformation Facility (ReACT) will be front and center when a premier group of industry leaders working on more efficient industrial processes visit the Morgantown, West Virginia, site Tuesday, Aug. 9. NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., will deliver welcoming remarks to the visitors.

NETL’s work to evolve advanced vehicle technologies, including electric vehicles, and expand their use on American highways has been recognized for excellence by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO).

The July 2022 edition of the RWFI E-Note Monthly, NETL’s Regional Workforce Initiative (RWFI) newsletter, is now available and includes details on a range of grant funding and training opportunities from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

NETL is leading a charge to develop the nation’s critical mineral (CM) supply chains with an approach that simultaneously helps disadvantaged communities become critical contributors in the nation’s low-carbon energy future.

Learn about the latest developments in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)/NETL Carbon Capture Program in this month’s edition of the Carbon Capture Newsletter. The DOE/NETL Carbon Capture Program is developing the next generation of advanced carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technologies that can provide step-change reductions in both cost and energy requirements as compared to currently available technologies.

Addressing the nation’s mechanical engineers at the Power 2022 Conference, NETL Director Brian Anderson, Ph.D., emphasized the importance of developing a diverse portfolio of technologies and an integrated approach to meet the Biden Administration’s timeline for decarbonization and accelerate the nation’s transition to a clean energy future.

Through a series of projects made possible with NETL funding and oversight, ION Clean Energy, Inc. (ION) has matured transformational carbon capture systems from early-stage research to pilot-scale testing — work that will help the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cut costs for crucial decarbonization technologies.

NETL researchers Robert Dilmore, Ph.D., and Dustin Crandall, Ph.D., joined carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) experts from government, industry and academia to discuss necessary technical advancements required for safe and permanent storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) at basin scale during a meeting hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

NETL work to discover and develop efficient ways to recover rare earth elements (REEs) from coal wastes like acid mine drainage (AMD) and fly ash includes intensive in-house research and more than 40 project partnerships with the private sector and higher education research institutions throughout the United States.