| The Energy Department on September 4 announced more than $7 million in funding for six organizations—including the Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)—that will continue to advance water power through marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies. MHK technologies convert the energy of waves, tides, rivers, and ocean currents into electricity that can be used by homes and businesses, especially in coastal regions of the United States. This funding will aid in the development of advanced instrumentation for environmental monitoring and data collection, and support a partnership among three universities to accelerate the development of cost-effective MHK technologies. Five organizations will receive a total of $3.25 million to develop and integrate instrumentation and processing techniques that will monitor and help reduce the environmental impacts of MHK technologies and collect physical data on ocean waves such as height, period, directionality, and steepness. They are: -
PNNL, which will develop integrated computer hardware and software algorithms capable of withstanding harsh ocean conditions, and will use real-time active acoustic data streams to detect, track, and characterize nearby aquatic wildlife. -
The University of Washington will develop open-source software to analyze visual data of marine animals in order to classify them and monitor their activities around MHK devices for future research. -
Scientific Solutions, Inc. of Nashua, New Hampshire, will develop a noise measurement system for use during MHK project testing, installation, and operations. -
Florida Atlantic University will develop and test a Light Detecting and Ranging, or LiDAR, monitoring system that uses pulses of light to determine the location and movement of objects. -
Oregon State University will develop and demonstrate a system for real-time wave forecasting near the shore, which will allow wave-energy devices to be tuned to capture the maximum amount of energy from incoming waves. In addition to the projects listed above, the Energy Department announced that a new consortium led by Oregon State University, and including the University of Washington and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, will receive $4 million in funding to combine their field-focused research and development capabilities to accelerate the development and deployment of MHK technologies. They will use the existing resources at the Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center. See the Energy Department news release.   The Energy Department on September 8 announced more than $8 million for microgrid projects to help cities and towns better prepare for extreme weather events and other potential electricity disruptions. The investment—which includes seven awardees in Alaska, California, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Tennessee, and Washington—supports the development of advanced technologies, allowing communities across the country to become more resilient and adaptive. Microgrids are localized grids that are usually connected to the more traditional electric grid but can also disconnect to operate autonomously and help mitigate grid disturbances. The projects, funded by the Department's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, will bring together communities, technology developers and providers, and utilities to develop advanced microgrid controllers, and system designs for microgrids less than 10 megawatts. Each project also includes a company cost share ranging from 20% to about 50%. For example, ALSTOM Grid, Inc., in Redmond, Washington, will research and design community microgrid systems for the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and the Philadelphia Water Department, using portions of the former Philadelphia Navy Yard as a test bed. Burr Energy of Little Falls, Minnesota, will design and build a resilient microgrid to allow the Olney, Maryland, Town Center to function normally as a “lights-on” district for weeks in the event of a regional outage. A second microgrid will be designed for multi-use commercial development in nearby Prince George’s County, Maryland. See the Energy Department news release. The Energy Department on September 5 announced $4.5 million in funding for four projects to help increase deployment of innovative wind power technologies by optimizing the operations, boosting efficiency, and improving the environmental performance of wind energy systems. The research and development projects will be located in Maine, Nebraska, North Carolina, and Texas. Among the awardees, the Biodiversity Research Institute of Gorham, Maine, will develop a stereo-optic camera system to detect and document bird and bat flight behavior in the vicinity of wind turbines. And Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, will develop a first-of-its-kind, radar-based prototype to measure the flow of wind through wind farms, which will increase data availability and lead to improved modeling. See the Energy Department news release.  |  Corn stover like this is being used by the Project LIBERTY Biorefinery for cellulosic ethanol production.
Credit: Energy Department | Project LIBERTY, the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant to use corn waste as a feedstock, announced the start of production on September 3. Once operating at full commercial-scale, the Energy Department-backed biorefinery in Emmetsburg, Iowa, will produce 25 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year, which is enough to avoid approximately 210,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. The facility was developed with the support of approximately $100 million in Energy Department investments and research. It uses biochemical conversion technologies such as yeast and enzymes to convert cellulosic biomass into transportation fuels. Project LIBERTY will produce cellulosic ethanol from corncobs, leaves, husks, and corn stalk harvested by local farmers located within a 30 to 40 mile radius of the plant. Project LIBERTY is the nation’s second commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery to come online. In 2013, INEOS Bio’s Indian River BioEnergy Center in Vero Beach, Florida, began producing 8 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from vegetative, yard, and municipal solid waste. Project LIBERTY will serve as a test bed for producing cellulosic ethanol with biochemical conversion technologies, helping to inform the design and construction of other advanced biofuels projects. See the Energy Department news release. |
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