WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has released a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks input on strategies and technologies for developing innovative gasification designs for converting biomass and mixed-waste feedstocks into syngas to enable the low-cost production of clean hydrogen.

This RFI supports FECM’s Hydrogen with Carbon Management Program’s overall efforts and DOE’s Hydrogen Shot Program. The motivation for seeking this information is based on the unique potential of carbon capture-friendly gasification processes to convert solid mixed biomass and waste feedstocks to clean hydrogen, which is useful as a decarbonized energy carrier and for synthesis of decarbonized transportation fuels, chemicals, electricity, and other useful products.   

The purpose of the RFI is to solicit feedback from industry members, investors, project developers, nongovernmental organizations, academia, research laboratories, government agencies and other stakeholders on technologies and strategies that companies are deploying, or could deploy, to increase clean hydrogen production from alternative, low-value feedstocks, excluding traditional coal and petcoke, at competitive costs and with market factors in play. For the purposes of this RFI, the clean hydrogen production would be based on efficient gasification processes, with carbon capture included to assure true net-zero or net-negative carbon emissions performance per suitable life cycle analysis.

This RFI is not a funding opportunity announcement. DOE is not accepting applications to this RFI, nor will DOE reimburse any costs in preparing a response.

To review the RFI, please click here. 

Responses must be submitted electronically to: Hydrogen_Gasification_RFI@NETL.DOE.GOV with the subject line “DE-FOA-0003259 RFI” no later than 5:00 p.m. (ET) by February 12, 2024.FECM minimizes environmental and climate impacts of fossil fuels and industrial processes while working to achieve net-zero emissions across our economy. Priority areas of technology work include carbon capture, carbon conversion, carbon dioxide removal, carbon dioxide transport and storage, hydrogen production with carbon management, methane emissions reduction, and critical minerals production. To learn more, visit the FECM website, sign up for FECM news announcements, and visit the National Energy Technology Laboratory website.