11 個(gè)新的國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室主導(dǎo)的能源 Earthshot 研究中心和 18 個(gè)大學(xué)項(xiàng)目將應(yīng)對(duì)嚴(yán)峻的科學(xué)挑戰(zhàn)，幫助到 2050 年實(shí)現(xiàn)凈零碳，解決氣候危機(jī)

美國(guó)能源部 (DOE) 今天宣布為 29 個(gè)項(xiàng)目提供 2.64 億美元的資助，以開發(fā)解決方案，應(yīng)對(duì)DOE 的 Energy Earthshots™ 計(jì)劃所面臨的科學(xué)挑戰(zhàn) ，以在十年內(nèi)推進(jìn)清潔能源技術(shù)。這筆資金將支持由美國(guó)能源部國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的 11 個(gè)新能源 Earthshot 研究中心和 18 個(gè)大學(xué)研究團(tuán)隊(duì)，研究一個(gè)或多個(gè) Energy Earthshots™，重點(diǎn)關(guān)注六個(gè)不同領(lǐng)域，包括工業(yè)脫碳、碳儲(chǔ)存和海上風(fēng)電。美國(guó)國(guó)務(wù)院發(fā)起了“能源地球倡議"，以促進(jìn)脫碳努力，幫助美國(guó)實(shí)現(xiàn)總統(tǒng)雄心勃勃的氣候和清潔能源目標(biāo)，包括到 2030 年碳排放量減少 50%，到 2050 年實(shí)現(xiàn)凈零碳經(jīng)濟(jì)。

美國(guó)能源部長(zhǎng)詹妮弗·M·格蘭霍姆 (Jennifer M. Granholm) 表示：“我們的能源地球計(jì)劃是改變游戲規(guī)則的努力，旨在釋放清潔能源轉(zhuǎn)型的技術(shù)，并使這些技術(shù)變得容易獲取、負(fù)擔(dān)得起且豐富。" “能源地球研究中心以及在全國(guó)各地大學(xué)校園開展的相關(guān)工作將有助于開發(fā)我們建立 100% 清潔電網(wǎng)和應(yīng)對(duì)氣候變化所需的清潔能源和脫碳解決方案。"

Energy Earthshots™ 連接能源部的基礎(chǔ)科學(xué)和能源技術(shù)辦公室，以加速創(chuàng)新，實(shí)現(xiàn)更豐富、負(fù)擔(dān)得起且可靠的清潔能源解決方案。這些努力旨在改變美國(guó)各地的許多部門，并將依靠基礎(chǔ)科學(xué)和創(chuàng)新技術(shù)來(lái)取得成功。

這 29 個(gè)項(xiàng)目是根據(jù)美國(guó)能源部的兩項(xiàng)征集，通過(guò)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)性同行評(píng)審選出的：《能源地球研究中心國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室計(jì)劃公告》和《能源地球研究科學(xué)基金會(huì)資助機(jī)會(huì)公告》。兩次征集都涵蓋了前六項(xiàng)能源地球射擊： 碳負(fù)射擊™、 增強(qiáng)型地?zé)嵘鋼?span style="vertical-align: inherit;">™、 漂浮海上風(fēng)射擊™、 氫射擊™、 工業(yè)熱射擊™和 長(zhǎng)時(shí)間儲(chǔ)存射擊™。此后，美國(guó)能源部宣布了第七項(xiàng)計(jì)劃： 清潔燃料和產(chǎn)品計(jì)劃™。

能源 Earthshots™ 的科學(xué)基礎(chǔ)

美國(guó)能源部科學(xué)辦公室向 14 個(gè)州 18 所不同大學(xué)的研究人員授予了總計(jì) 6910 萬(wàn)美元的資金，這些研究人員將研究氫弧等離子體以實(shí)現(xiàn)無(wú)碳煉鋼，以及如何利用百億億次計(jì)算機(jī)模擬和觀察使清潔能源系統(tǒng)更具彈性。

• 亞利桑那州立大學(xué)，亞利桑那州坦佩

• 加州理工學(xué)院，帕薩迪納，加利福尼亞州

• 佐治亞理工學(xué)院，佐治亞州亞特蘭大

• 佐治亞州立大學(xué)，佐治亞州亞特蘭大

• 紐約大學(xué), 紐約州, 紐約州

• 俄亥俄州立大學(xué)，俄亥俄州哥倫布市

• 加州大學(xué)洛杉磯分校，洛杉磯，加利福尼亞州

• 加州大學(xué)圣克魯斯分校，加利福尼亞州圣克魯斯

• 佛羅里達(dá)大學(xué)，佛羅里達(dá)州蓋恩斯維爾

• 夏威夷大學(xué)馬諾阿分校，夏威夷檀香山

• 伊利諾伊大學(xué)芝加哥分校，伊利諾伊州芝加哥

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

• 明尼蘇達(dá)大學(xué)雙城分校，明尼蘇達(dá)州明尼阿波利斯

• 內(nèi)華達(dá)大學(xué)里諾分校 , 里諾, 內(nèi)華達(dá)州

• 賓夕法尼亞大學(xué)，賓夕法尼亞州費(fèi)城

• 德克薩斯大學(xué)埃爾帕索分校，德克薩斯州埃爾帕索

• 圣路易斯華盛頓大學(xué)，密蘇里州圣路易斯

• 耶魯大學(xué)，康涅狄格州紐黑文

能源地球研究中心

能源地球計(jì)劃研究中心將支持多機(jī)構(gòu)、多學(xué)科團(tuán)隊(duì)解決與能源地球計(jì)劃相關(guān)的關(guān)鍵基礎(chǔ)研究挑戰(zhàn)。這些中心將設(shè)在美國(guó)能源部的八個(gè)國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室內(nèi)，四年內(nèi)將總共獲得 1.95 億美元的資金。

阿貢國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室，萊蒙特，伊利諾伊州

• C-STEEL：電合成鋼鐵電氣化中心

布魯克海文國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室，厄普頓，紐約

• C4M：EGS 水泥基復(fù)合材料耦合化學(xué)力學(xué)中心

勞倫斯伯克利國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室，伯克利，加利福尼亞州

• CIWE：離聚物水電解中心

• RESTOR-C：通過(guò)精準(zhǔn)生物策略恢復(fù)土壤碳

勞倫斯利弗莫爾國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室，利弗莫爾，加利福尼亞州

• 土壤改造 EERC：通過(guò)先進(jìn)的基因組學(xué)和地球化學(xué)加速土壤碳減少

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• 度：電熱儲(chǔ)能中的降解反應(yīng)

• FLOWMAS：浮動(dòng)海上風(fēng)建模和仿真

橡樹嶺國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室，田納西州橡樹嶺

• NEETER：高效反應(yīng)的非平衡能量轉(zhuǎn)移

太平洋西北國(guó)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室，華盛頓州里奇蘭

• ACE-FWICC：應(yīng)對(duì)能源挑戰(zhàn)：氣候變化中的浮動(dòng)風(fēng)能

• CUSSP：了解地下信號(hào)和滲透率中心

普林斯頓等離子體物理實(shí)驗(yàn)室，新澤西州普林斯頓

• PEHPr：等離子體增強(qiáng)制氫科學(xué)中心

持續(xù)時(shí)間長(zhǎng)達(dá) 4 年的項(xiàng)目的總資金為 2.64 億美元，其中 2023 財(cái)年資金為 1 億美元，而年度資金則取決于國(guó)會(huì)撥款。項(xiàng)目列表和更多信息可以在 科學(xué)能源地球計(jì)劃辦公室 主頁(yè)上找到。

11 New National Lab-Led Energy Earthshot Research Centers and 18 University Projects Will Address Tough Scientific Challenges to Help Achieve Net-Zero Carbon by 2050, Solve Climate Crisis

September 29, 2023

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $264 million in funding for 29 projects to develop solutions for the scientific challenges underlying DOE’s Energy Earthshots™ Initiative to advance clean energy technologies within the decade. The funding will support 11 new Energy Earthshot Research Centers led by DOE National Laboratories and 18 university research teams addressing one or more of the Energy Earthshots™ that are focused on six different areas, including industrial decarbonization, carbon storage, and offshore wind. The Department launched the Energy Earthshots Initiative to spur decarbonization efforts that will help the United States meet President Biden’s ambitious climate and clean energy goals, including a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030 and a net-zero carbon economy by 2050.

“Our Energy Earthshots are game-changing endeavors to unleash the technologies of the clean energy transition and make them accessible, affordable, and abundant," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “The Energy Earthshot Research Centers and the related work happening on college campuses around the country will be instrumental in developing the clean energy and decarbonization solutions we need to establish a 100% clean grid and beat climate change."

The Energy Earthshots™ connect DOE’s basic science and energy technology offices to accelerate innovations toward more abundant, affordable, and reliable clean energy solutions. These efforts seek to revolutionize many sectors across the United States and will rely on fundamental science and innovative technology to be successful.

The 29 projects were selected by competitive peer review under two DOE solicitations: the National Laboratory Program Announcement for Energy Earthshot Research Centers and the Funding Opportunity Announcement for Science Foundations for Energy Earthshots. Both solicitations covered the first six Energy Earthshots: Carbon Negative Shot™, Enhanced Geothermal Shot™, Floating Offshore Wind Shot™, Hydrogen Shot™, Industrial Heat Shot™, and Long Duration Storage Shot™. Since then, DOE announced a seventh: the Clean Fuels & Products Shot™.

Science Foundations for Energy Earthshots™

DOE’s Office of Science awarded a combined $69.1 million to researchers at 18 different universities across 14 states that will, for example, investigate hydrogen arc plasmas to make steelmaking carbon-free and how to make clean energy systems more resilient using exascale computer simulations and observations.

• Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

• California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

• Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

• Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia

• New York University, New York, New York

• The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

• University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

• University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

• University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

• University of Hawai?i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

• University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

• University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas

• Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri

• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Energy Earthshot Research Centers

The Energy Earthshot Research Centers will support multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary teams addressing key basic research challenges relevant to the Energy Earthshots. The centers will be housed at eight DOE National Laboratories and will receive a combined $195 million across four years.

Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois

• C-STEEL: Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis

Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York

• C4M: Center for Coupled Chemo-Mechanics of Cementitious Composites for EGS

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California

• CIWE: Center for Ionomer-based Water Electrolysis

• RESTOR-C: RESTORation of Soil Carbon by Precision Biological Strategies

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

• Terraforming Soil EERC: Accelerating Soil-Based Carbon Drawdown Through Advanced Genomics and Geochemistry

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado

• DEGREES: Degradation Reactions in Electrothermal Energy Storage

• FLOWMAS: Floating Offshore Wind Modeling and Simulation

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

• NEETER: Non-Equilibrium Energy Transfer for Efficient Reactions

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington

• ACE-FWICC: Addressing Challenges in Energy: Floating Wind in a Changing Climate

• CUSSP: Center for Understanding Subsurface Signals and Permeability

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey

• PEHPr: Center for the Science of Plasma-Enhanced Hydrogen Production

Total funding is $264 million for projects lasting up to 4 years in duration, with $100 million in Fiscal Year 2023 dollars and outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and more information can be found on the Office of Science Energy Earthshot initiative homepage.

Selection for award negotiations is not a commitment by DOE to issue an award or provide funding. Before funding is issued, DOE and the applicants will undergo a negotiation process, and DOE may cancel negotiations and rescind the selection for any reason during that time.