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Ready to help advance the next generation of clean wood heaters? 🔥 EERE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), in collaboration with 🥼🥽 Brookhaven National Laboratory and Berkeley Lab, announced up to $2 million to develop innovative wood heater technologies. Apply by September 13 to help make this renewable energy source even cleaner for the environment! 🌎

DOE and the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation will award over $11 million to distribution utilities through their Innovative Queue Management Solutions (iQMS) for Clean Energy Interconnection and Energization program! 💚 Register for the webinar on August 29 💻 to learn how the iQMS program will help distribution utilities manage large interconnection queues of clean energy projects, and don’t forget to apply by October 16. 📑

To drive innovation in floating offshore wind technology, the National Offshore Research and Development Consortium is offering over $10 million to address challenges in the U.S. offshore wind sector. 🌫️ This Solicitation 4.0 aims to ⚡ enhance the delivery of electricity to consumers, 👓 improve environmental monitoring and infrastructure support, and install affordable offshore wind turbines quickly. 🔨  Attend the webinar on September 10 and submit your proposal by November 14!

The Winners’ Circle 🏅

Do you have what it takes to join the Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition, class of 2025? 💪 You can gain experience in the solar industry ☀️ by designing and modeling distributed energy systems with expert training! 🥼 Learn more and apply by September 26 to compete.

Three cheers for the first two winners of the American-Made Upskill Prize for the Solar Manufacturing Workforce! 🙌🙌🙌 These winners focused their training programs on developing the domestic solar manufacturing workforce. 🧤 Sound interesting? Apply for the second round of the prize by November 20.

What’s New in Buildings and Industry? 🏗️

EERE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office wants your feedback 📋 on the Energy Efficiency Scaling for Two Decades (EES2) Initiative and its accompanying EES2 Research and Development Roadmap. If you have input on the EES2 Initiative’s 🎯 goals, 🗺️ the Roadmap, or future steps 🤔💭 to increase energy efficiency of semiconductor technology, view the full request for information and send your feedback to micro.electronics@ee.doe.gov by September 30!

Did you know that General Motors’ (GM’s) Fort Wayne Assembly plant reduced its carbon emissions by 30%? 😮👍 DOE recently recognized GM for their leadership in decarbonization, energy efficiency, and waste reduction! Learn more about GM’s steam elimination and recovery systems and how they’re evaluating other sites to replicate this clean energy solution.

What’s New in Sustainable Transportation and Fuels? 🚗

BETO and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced the 2024 community partners for their Waste-to-Energy (WTE) Technical Assistance for State, Local, and Tribal Governments Program, which will provide technical assistance for 20 communities in 14 states. 🗺️ Learn more about the WTE Technical Assistance Program’s expertise 🖱️ in energy and resource recovery from organic waste streams and read the FAQs page for more information on the program’s collaboration 🤝 with state, local, and Tribal governments.

What’s New in Renewable Energy? 🏔️

With the support of DOE’s U.S. Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) program, E-Wave Technologies developed a wave energy converter (WEC), from concept to test-validated device. 🥳 This is just one example of how the TEAMER program helps developers partner with 🎓 academic institutions, 🔬 labs, and private companies 🏢 to test new marine energy devices. 🐟 Learn more about E-Wave’s WEC and explore all the benefits of the TEAMER program!

Let’s hear it for the 2024 class of the Clean Energy Innovator Fellowship! 🎉 DOE has recruited 68 fellows to spend up to two years at critical energy organizations across the nation, where they will help advance decarbonization, resilience, and energy equity projects. 🌳🔧 Read the announcement and stay tuned to apply for next year’s program.