Categorical Exclusion (CX) Determinations By Date

The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Noria Energy Holdings, LLC (Noria), to design, develop, and test a floating solar photovoltaics (FPV) tracking and positioning system that increases annual energy production of FPV, lowers levelized cost of energy for FPV, and leverages U.S. contract supply chain and manufacturing.
This Amended Determination follows the approval of additional funding, extended period of performance, new teaming partners, and new project milestones to support the project team's small-scale research and development activities of new biological photosynthetic systems that employ sunlight from previously under-utilized or inaccessible regions of the solar spectrum, such as near-infrared light (NIR), to produce chemical biofuel.
This Third Amended Determination follows the approval of additional funding, extended period of performance, change of teaming partners, and new project milestones to support the project team's small-scale research and development activities of creating a modular reactor design to convert dilute carbon dioxide into a concentrated ethanol product, in progress under the Optimized Flexible Fuels using Grid-free Reactors with Intermittent Delivery (OFF GRID, formerly GREENWELLS) Program.
The Disruptive DC Converters for Grid Resilient Infrastructure to Deliver Secure energy (DC-GRIDS) program supports the small-scale research and development of more compact and cost effective power electronics converters for direct current (DC) transmission to transport electricity over longer distances with less electricity lost during conveyance from generator to user.