DOE: up to $10 Million for Algal Systems Research

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) has announced up to $10 million in funding to support Algal Systems Research and development (R&D) focused on algae system cultivation and preprocessing. The notice of funding opportunity (NOFO), Maximizing Algal System Yield (MASY), will support BETO’s R&D priorities in the area of Renewable Carbon Resources for advancing algal systems.

Algae can provide abundant feedstock sources for affordable, reliable biofuels, bioproducts, and bioenergy that do not compete with existing feedstocks. For this NOFO, algae include microalgae, cyanobacteria, and macroalgae (seaweed).

The MASY NOFO seeks applications to address “pinch points” (defined as a challenge area within a proposed system that, if relieved, would enable scaling towards commercialization) in algal system operations that currently limit algae expansion as a domestic bioenergy feedstock.

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