Funding Selections – Inflation Reduction Act Funding for Advanced Biofuels to Support Development of Advanced Biofuels
Offices: U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- FOA number: DE-FOA-0003178
- FOA amount: $6 million
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) announced $6 million in funding for three projects that will advance biofuel development and support U.S. leadership on energy and emissions innovation. Funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the projects will support research to improve performance and reduce costs of high-impact biofuel production technologies; scale up production systems with industry; and support the U.S. bioeconomy. Located in three states, these projects will support DOE’s Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge goals by developing biofuel technologies that use sustainable biomass and waste feedstocks.
Biofuels are liquid fuels produced from renewable biological sources, including feedstocks such as plants and algae. When responsibly sourced, U.S. biofuel production can help strengthen the rural economy, move the U.S. toward greater energy independence, and support domestic production of cleaner fuels.
The projects will provide industry with new technologies to meet EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program
requirements to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and expand the nation’s renewable fuels sector, while reducing reliance on imported transportation fuel, heating oil, and jet fuel. Using agricultural residues and wet wastes, the projects also align with DOE’s 2023 Billion-Ton Report, an assessment of domestic renewable carbon resources that estimates that the U.S. can sustainably provide 134 million tons of agricultural residues and 32 million tons of wet waste in the near-term.
This funding will address the development of advanced biofuels through the topic area of pre-pilot scale up of integrated biorefinery technologies. Projects that have completed work around Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 and are ready to move to TRL 4-5, piloting a single process step, prior to TRL 6 integrated piloting. Feedstocks will align with the RFS Program’s definition for feedstocks that could be used for advanced biofuels.
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