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February 9, 2024The Bioenergy Technologies Office—a branch of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy—supports the research, development, and demonstration of technologies that mobilize renewable carbon resources across the U.S. economy.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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February 9, 2024Improving genome engineering with quantum biology and artificial intelligence.Biological and Environmental Research
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Press ReleasesFebruary 8, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) announced $29 million in funding to drive research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of low-carbon-intensity, purpose-grown energy crops critical to accelerating a renewable energy economy.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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DocumentFebruary 6, 2024On June 6-7, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri, the DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office hosted a workshop titled Deploying Purpose-Grown Energy Crops for Sustainable Aviation Fuel. The workshop discussed successes, challenges, information gaps, opportunities, and novel ideas for deploying these energy crops. This is the workshop report.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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February 5, 2024Scientists engineered a model bacterium's genetic code to make it virus-resistant and unable to exchange genetic material or grow without special media.Biological and Environmental Research
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Press ReleasesJanuary 31, 2024Congratulations to the 15 teams advancing as finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) AlgaePrize 2023–2025 competition! The teams, which include students from high schools, community colleges, and universities from 11 states across the United States and Puerto Rico, will each receive $10,000 in funding to support their research projects over the next 16 months.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 24, 2024During a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, LanzaJet unveiled the world’s first ethanol-based alcohol-to-jet sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) commercial production plant in Soperton, GA. With the completion of this plant, LanzaTech, its subsidiary LanzaJet, Inc., and their partners, will optimize the process for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and reduce the cost of producing jet fuel renewable ethanol.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office
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January 23, 2024Research scientists and graduate students from the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory (SREL) and program managers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service - Savannah River (USFS-SR) recently gathered to explore efforts to expand collaboration between the two organizations that conduct ecological research and natural resource management on the 310-square-mile Savannah River Site (SRS).Office of Environmental Management
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Press ReleasesJanuary 23, 2024Office of Legacy Management ecologists find sensitive plant species at recently transitioned site.Office of Legacy Management
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January 23, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) opened new funding to small businesses for innovative energy technologies as part of its Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) programs.Alternative Fuels and Feedstocks Office