OBJECTIVES By administering this grant funding, COMMERCE seeks to advance the environmental and economic benefits from increasing industrial symbiosis projects across the state. Funding projects through the Industrial Symbiosis Grant Program supports progress to reduce resource consumption & greenhouse gas emissions through more sustainable industrial processes. Innovations include projects which transform industrial by-products such as waste materials, waste heat, and wastewater into valuable resources for use in other industries. Projects must emphasize the development of end users and partnerships for circular resources. This RFA will evaluate eligible industrial symbiosis project applications in a competitive process and intends to award multiple contracts. RCW 43.31.635 directs grant awards to provide support for research, development, and deployment of existing and emerging industrial waste coordination projects. Scopes of work can stem from (but not limited to): • Conceptual work by public utilities to redirect their waste to productive use; • Existing inventories or project concepts involving specific biobased wastes converted to renewable natural gas; • Research on product development using a specific waste flow; • Feasibility studies to evaluate potential biobased resources; • Feasibility studies for publicly owned utilities to evaluate business models to transform to multiutility operations or for the evaluation of potential symbiosis connections with other regional businesses; • Other local waste coordination projects as determined by COMMERCE.
