| The Energy Department on December 4 announced up to $7 million for two projects aimed at developing and demonstrating ways to reduce the cost of delivering bioenergy feedstocks to biorefineries. Examples of bioenergy feedstocks include corn stover, switchgrass, and woody biomass. The projects, located in New York and Tennessee, will focus on developing advanced machinery for efficient and low-cost harvesting, collection, and transportation of high-quality bioenergy feedstocks. The projects are: -
The State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, will receive up to $3.5 million to lower the delivered cost of short rotation woody crops; rapidly, accurately, and reliably assess feedstock quality; and improve harvest and preprocessing operations to produce feedstocks that meet key biorefinery partner specifications. -
The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, will receive up to $3.5 million to study how blending feedstocks could play a role in increasing the amount of available feedstock within a given delivery radius. The project will develop and demonstrate a state-of-the-art biomass processing depot to reduce sources of variation along the supply chain of multiple, high-impact biomass sources (pine and switchgrass) and deliver a consistent feedstock optimized for performance. See the Energy Department news release.   The Energy Department on December 9 recognized 25 winners across the federal government as recipients of the 2014 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards. These annual awards highlight exceptional federal agency efforts for improving the efficiency of their energy and water systems, and aviation and vehicle fleets. Each winner deployed cutting-edge practices that will significantly cut carbon pollution, protect the environment, and strengthen national security. Through their efforts, leaders—serving in the U.S. Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, and Navy; the Departments of Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs; the General Services Administration; and the Tennessee Valley Authority—saved 4.2 trillion Btu of energy, nearly 1.3 billion gallons of water, and more than $115 million during the 2013 fiscal year. The energy savings alone are equivalent to removing 56,800 cars from the road or eliminating the average energy use of more than 47,000 households annually. The Energy Department's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) administers the awards plays a central role in helping federal agencies achieve these energy and sustainability goals. See the Energy Department news release and the FEMP website. The Energy Department on December 3 announced the third round of the Alaska Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program, a competitive technical assistance program that helps Alaska Native corporations and federally recognized Alaska Native governments with accelerating clean energy projects. The announcement came at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, where leaders of 566 federally recognized tribes met directly with President Obama and members of the Cabinet. Applications are due by February 6, 2015. Since its launch in December 2011, the START Program has helped 11 Alaska Native communities to advance their clean energy technology and infrastructure projects—from solar and wind to biofuels and energy efficiency. This third round of technical assistance awards will further help Alaska Native villages increase their resiliency, build local generation capacity, enhance energy efficiency measures, and create local entrepreneurial and job opportunities. At the conference, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced that two tribes are among the 16 communities from across the country that have been selected by the Administration in the first round of the Climate Action Champions Competition, which recognizes and supports the steps that local and tribal governments are taking to reduce carbon pollution and prepare for the impacts of climate change. The two tribes selected are the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe from California, which has reduced energy consumption by 35% and has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2018, and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 4% per year. In addition, the White House Council of Native American Affairs Energy Subgroup, co-chaired by Secretary Moniz, launched a new Web page that provides a centralized repository of federal funding and technical assistance programs that can support energy project development for tribes and Alaska Native villages and corporations. See the Energy Department news release, the Energy Department's Office of Indian Energy, and the new centralized repository Web page. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) on December 9 announced the release of two new hubs of datasets that are part of the Climate Data Initiative (CDI) to help local and state leaders build greater community resilience in the face of climate change. Hundreds of datasets from numerous federal departments and agencies have been consolidated into two thematic CDI data hubs for “Ecosystem Vulnerability” and “Water.” They are now available online to the public for free. Two additional themes, “Coastal Flooding” and “Food Resilience,” were released earlier this year after the launch of the CDI in March. Two new major tools for integrating ecosystem data were announced as stand-alone products that will become integral components of the Ecosystem Vulnerability CDI theme: EcoINFORMA and the Global Ecosystems Map. EcoINFORMA is a data tool designed to facilitate assessments of the impact of climate change, pollution and other stressors on ecosystems, biodiversity and ecosystem services, as well as assessments of management responses to these stressors. The new Global Ecosystems Map comprehensively displays the ecological integration of global bioclimate regions, global land forms, global geology and global land cover at 250-meter spatial resolution worldwide. See the DOI news release. |
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