美国能源部周四宣布拨款2100多万美元，用于推动清洁能源商业规模部署的技术开发和创新，其中包括从太阳能到核能解决方案的选定项目。

该能源部在一份新闻稿中表示，这笔资金将解决核心商业化挑战，同时改善实验室流程，创造清洁能源资源的可及性，并加强与服务不周到社区的联系。这项投资使我们的国家更接近政府的目标，即降低能源成本，创造高薪，增加就业机会，并部署清洁能源，以到2050年实现净零碳排放。

这项年度投资是2005年设立的技术商业化基金（TCF）的一部分。

今年用于市场准备核心实验室基础设施的TCF拨款中，有80%用于“特定技术合作伙伴项目”。

太阳能解决方案

美国能源部太阳能技术办公室（SETO）选择桑迪亚国家实验室（SNL）用于开发农业光伏的微电网产品，或在同一块土地上生产作物和太阳能发电。

SETO选择了国家可再生能源实验室(NREL)进行三个项目。一是利用负裂膜光刻技术提高碲化镉电池的转换效率极限。另一个是将反射目标非侵入性评估商业化，这是一种用于聚光太阳能(CSP)反射镜的新型光学测量方法。该部门表示，该实验室还将“进一步将基于无人机的非侵入式光学（NIO）技术商业化，用于CSP中定日镜的高效和自动化光学表征”。

风能解决方案

风能技术办公室还选择SNL进行模拟，以促进行业范围内采用解决方案，最大限度地减少限制发电的所谓尾流效应。

该实验室的资金还支持其“用于自动化和加速分布式风力发电转换器的互操作性和互联认证程序的风力互联标准平台（WISP）工具”。

水电解决方案

NREL是水电技术办公室挑选的唯一实验室，用于开发“电网公用事业、运营商和规划者气候智能决策的交互式可视化和分析网络工具”。

核能解决方案

阿贡国家实验室（Argonne National Laboratory）已被核能办公室纳入，以“为实施回收使用过的核燃料和管理核废料的稳健流程提供基础”，并“提高先进非轻水反应堆安全分析系统分析模块的建模能力、保真度和成熟度”。

爱达荷州国家实验室（INL）也参与了一个核项目，该项目旨在将一种对辐射具有高度耐受性的液位传感器商业化。

橡树岭国家实验室(ORNL)的一笔拨款支持“热交换器、泵叶轮和其他部件的独特解决方案”。

SNL还因其通过新软件提高反应堆安全性的工作而被国家核办公室选中。

氢能解决方案

氢和燃料电池技术办公室选择了橡树岭国家实验室来寻找一种快速、大批量制造固体氧化物电解槽电池的方法。

INL已被选择用于固体氧化物电解槽的开发，或通过氧化从水中获得氢气的过程。

劳伦斯·利弗莫尔国家实验室（LLNL）因其旨在直接检测氢气泄漏的光纤传感器的商业原型以及开发“低温压缩氢气罐加速耐久性测试”的工作而被选中。

SNL也加入了氢项目，因为它致力于“氢加其他替代燃料风险评估模型的商业采用，这是一个评估氢和其他替代燃料基础设施安全性的软件工具包”。

太平洋西北国家实验室已获得资金，用于“提供长期锌电池模块、测试数据和技术转型计划，以扩大规模和商业化”，以及“开发超稳定参比电极，作为氧化还原液流电池的原位系统诊断工具”。

电力办公室挑选的另一个实验室，INL“将加快OmniTap的商业化，以加强对美国工艺控制的保护”。

LLNL也被该办公室列入名单，以实现自编程微电网算法的商业化，这是与NREL和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室合作的一个项目。

该办公室还选择了LLNL来开发“高容量准固态Zn–MnO2电池”，而NREL还选择了另一个电力办公室的项目，该项目旨在展示“一种强大的数据驱动相位识别工具，用于确定配电网中的客户相位连接”。

ORNL被该办公室选为“用于测量驱动的自动和自适应阻尼控制技术”的软件工具。

合作项目

NREL与OTT的合作实验室Open Voucher Call有另一个支持项目，该项目将与小企业创新者和服务不周到或代表性不足的社区建立实验室合作。

布鲁克黑文国家实验室已获得其少数族裔服务机构连接计划的资金，以帮助其“利益相关者合作、外联活动、研究资金和未来资金来源规划”。

在国际合作方面，INL成功地提出了另一个项目，“更有效地吸引外国公司和具有外国影响力的美国公司”。它的资金还包括美国能源部批准的一个模板，该模板将简化合作研究与开发协议的谈判过程。

托马斯·杰斐逊国家加速器设施也被选中，该设施“将探索其他交易机构（OTA）以形成快速研发的最佳实践，并向国家实验室系统提供建议”。

郝芬 译自 钻机地带

原文如下：

USA Grants Over $21MM for Development of Clean Energy Solutions

The USA Department of Energy unveiled Thursday more than $21 million in grants for the development of technologies and innovations that advance the commercial-scale deployment of clean energy, with selected projects ranging from solar to nuclear solutions.

“This funding will address core commercialization challenges, while improving laboratory processes, creating accessibility to clean energy resources, and enhancing connections to underserved communities”, it said in a press release.

“This investment brings our nation one step closer to the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of lowering energy costs, creating good paying, union jobs, and deploying clean energy to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.”

The annual investment is part of the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) established 2005.

Eighty percent of this year’s TCF allotments for Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness have gone to “technology-specific partnership projects”.

Solar Solutions

The DOE’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) has picked the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) for the development of a microgrid product for agrivoltaics, or the production of crops and solar power on the same land.

The SETO has selected the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for three projects. One aims to raise the conversion efficiency limit of cadmium telluride cells by using negative cracked film lithography. Another is for the commercialization of the Reflected Target Non-Intrusive Assessment, a new optical measurement for concentrated solar power (CSP) mirrors. The lab will also “further commercialize the drone-based Non-Intrusive Optical (NIO) Technology for efficient and automated optical characterization of heliostats in CSP”, the department said.

Wind Solutions

The SNL has also been chosen by the Wind Energy Technologies Office for simulations that promote the industry-scale adoption of solutions that minimize the so-called wake effect, which limits power generation.

Funding for the lab also supports its “Wind Interconnection Standard Platform (WISP) tool for automating and accelerating interoperability and interconnection certification procedures for distributed wind power converters”.

Hydro Solutions

The NREL is the sole lab picked by the Water Power Technologies Office, for the development of “an interactive visualization and analysis web tool for climate-smart decision-making by power grid utilities, operators, and planners”.

Nuclear Solutions

The Argonne National Laboratory has been included by the Nuclear Energy Office to “provide a basis for the implementation of a robust process for recycling used nuclear fuel and managing nuclear waste”, as well as to “improve the modeling capabilities, fidelity, and maturity of the System Analysis Module for advanced non-light water reactor safety analysis”.

The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has also made it to the nuclear program for a project seeking to commercialize a liquid level sensor that is highly tolerant to radiation.

An allotment for Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) backs “unique solutions for heat exchangers, pump impellers, and other components”.

The SNL has also been picked by the nuclear office for its work on improving the safety of reactors through new software.

Hydrogen Solutions

The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office picked the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to find a way to make solid oxide electrolyzer cells in a fast and high-volume manner.

The INL has been selected for the development of solid oxide electrolyzers, or the process of deriving hydrogen from water through oxidization.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been chosen for its commercial prototype of a fiber-optic sensor that seeks to directly detect hydrogen leakage, as well as its work on developing an “accelerated durability test for cryo-compressed hydrogen tanks”.

The SNL has also made it to the hydrogen program for its work on enabling the “commercial adoption of Hydrogen Plus Other Alternative Fuels Risk Assessment Models, a software toolkit for assessing the safety of hydrogen and other alternative fuels infrastructure”.

Grid Solutions

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has received funding to “deliver long-duration zinc battery modules, testing data, and technology transition plans for scale-up and commercialization”, as well as to “develop an ultra-stable reference electrode as an in-situ system diagnostics tool for redox flow batteries”.

Another lab picked by the Electricity Office, the INL “will accelerate the commercialization of OmniTap for enhanced protection of process controls within the U.S.”.

The LLNL has also been listed by the office to enable the commercialization of self-programmed microgrid algorithms, in a project with the NREL and the Los Alamos National Lab.

The office has also picked the LLNL for the development of “a high-capacity quasi-solid-state Zn–MnO2 battery”, while the NREL also has another Electricity Office-selected project that seeks to demonstrate “a robust data-driven phase identification tool for customer phase connectivity determination in distribution grids”.

The ORNL has been picked by the office for a software tool “for measurement-driven automatic and adaptive damping control technology”.

Collaborative Projects

The NREL has another supported project with OTT’s coLABoratory Open Voucher Call that would forge lab collaboration with small business innovators and underserved or underrepresented communities.

The Brookhaven National Laboratory has received funding for its Minority Serving Institution Connect program to help it in “stakeholder collaboration, outreach events, fellowships, and future planning for funding sources”.

For international cooperation, the INL has successfully proposed another project, “to engage foreign companies and U.S. companies with foreign influence more effectively”. Its funding also covers a DOE-approved template that would streamline the negotiation process for Cooperative Research and Development Agreements.

Also selected is the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, which “will explore Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs) to document best practices for rapid R&D [research and development] and provide recommendations to the national lab system”.