Full Title: DOE’s Energy Earthshots: Innovation Unlocks Big Cost and Emissions Savings
Author(s): Shane Londagin, Robert Fourqurean, Ben Haley, and Gabe Kwok
Publisher(s): Third Way
Publication Date: June 23, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
In 2021, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched its Energy Earthshots Initiative, a novel and innovative approach to catalyze decarbonization across some of the hardest to abate sectors of our economy. These ‘Earthshots’ are meant to tackle the toughest remaining scientific and technical barriers to deploying the technologies we need to rapidly reduce emissions. Modeled after the wildly successful 2011 SunShot Initiative, the current Earthshots set aggressive cost targets for seven critical areas: hydrogen, carbon removal, long duration energy storage, enhanced geothermal, floating offshore wind, low-carbon industrial heat, and clean fuels and products. These goals are ambitious, well-thought-out, and inspiring. Achieving them would be an awesome accomplishment, setting the US up to be a global leader in the energy technologies that will define this century.