The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has released a Request for Information (RFI) that seeks input on strategies and technologies for developing innovative gasification designs for converting biomass and mixed-waste feedstocks into syngas to enable the low-cost production of clean H₂.

This RFI supports FECM’s H₂ with Carbon Management Program’s overall efforts and DOE’s H₂ Shot Program. The motivation for seeking this information is based on the unique potential of carbon capture-friendly gasification processes to convert solid mixed biomass and waste feedstocks to clean H₂, which is useful as a decarbonized energy carrier and for synthesis of decarbonized transportation fuels, chemicals, electricity and other useful products.  

The purpose of the RFI is to solicit feedback from industry members, investors, project developers, nongovernmental organizations, academia, research laboratories, government agencies and other stakeholders on technologies and strategies that companies are deploying, or could deploy, to increase clean H₂ production from alternative, low-value feedstocks, excluding traditional coal and petcoke, at competitive costs and with market factors in play. For the purposes of this RFI, the clean H₂ production would be based on efficient gasification processes, with carbon capture included to assure true net-zero or net-negative carbon emissions performance per suitable life cycle analysis.