DOE Announces Concept Papers’ Deadline For Funding Opportunity

By Lynn L. Bergeson

On May 15, 2019, DOE EERE’s BETO announced the deadline for concept paper submissions for a $79 million funding opportunity for bioenergy research and development (R&D): June 3, 2019. This funding opportunity includes biopower, biofuels, and bioproducts, aiming to reduce the price of drop-in biofuels, lower the cost of biopower, and enable high-value products from waste or biomass resources. The opportunity includes ten topic areas:

• Cultivation Intensification Processes for Algae
   
• Biomass Component Variability and Feedstock Conversion Interface
   
• Efficient Wood Heaters
   
• Systems Research of Hydrocarbon Biofuel Technologies
   
• Optimization of Biomass-Derived Jet Fuel Blends
   
• Renewable Energy from Urban and Suburban Wastes
   
• Advanced Bioprocessing and Agile BioFoundry
   
• Plastics in the Circular Carbon Economy
   
• Rethinking Anaerobic Digestion
   
• Reducing Water, Energy, and Emissions in Bioenergy

For further details, see the EERE Exchange website.