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DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

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American Battery Metals Corporation; Field Demonstration of Selective Leaching, Targeted Purification, and Electro-Chemical Production of Battery Grade Lithium Hydroxide Precursor from Domestic Claystone Resources. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions. 525 Solutions, Inc.;

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ExxonMobil invests $15M in University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute; renewable energy, battery technologies and power grid modeling

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The joint research initiative will study transformational energy innovations including integrating renewable energy sources into the current supply mix and advancing traditional energy sources in ways that improve efficiency and reduce impacts on water, air and climate.

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Dept. of Interior to auction nearly 80,000 acres offshore Maryland for wind energy development

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To date, the DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded five commercial wind energy leases off the Atlantic coast: two non-competitive leases (Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts and an area off Delaware) and three competitive leases (two offshore Massachusetts-Rhode Island and another offshore Virginia).

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Elevance Renewable Sciences licenses molybdenum and tungsten metathesis catalysts from XiMo

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Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., which is commercializing olefin metathesis technology for renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has completed a licensing agreement with XiMo AG, a company founded by renowned chemists Amir H. Hoveyda and Richard R. —K’Lynne Johnson, CEO of Elevance.

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Mass. startup licenses PNNL’s vanadium redox flow battery technology

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A Massachusetts startup has signed a license agreement with Battelle to commercialize battery technology that can help store large amounts of renewable energy and improve the reliability of the nation''s power grid. based WattJoule Corporation will advance the commercial use of redox flow battery technology. Earlier post.)

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Toyota Tsusho strategic equity investor in bio-BTX company Anellotech

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Catalytic pyrolysis company Anellotech, which focuses on producing cost-competitive BTX (benzene, toluene and xylene) from non-food biomass, revealed Toyota Tsusho Corporation as a multinational strategic equity investor and corporate partner in the renewable aromatic chemicals supply chain.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Enovix Corporation. Exelon Corporation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.