Federal Funding Round-Up

• To build upon and expand research and development that DOE has invested in since 2009 to support achievement of
  emissions reduction targets.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. AOI-1. Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies at Natural Gas Power Generation and Industrial Facilities
  2. AOI-2. Enabling Technologies for Carbon Capture Systems
  3. AOI-3. Testing of Low-Cost, High Capture Efficiency, Flexible Capture Systems for Electricity
     Generation and Industrial Facilities
  4. AOI-4. Preliminary Front-End Engineering Design Studies (pre-FEED) for Flexible Carbon
     Management Systems
  5. AOI-5. FEEDs for Oxygen-Driven (Chemical Looping/Oxy-Combustion) Hydrogen Production
     Pre-Commercial Pilot Scale Systems

• Carbon capture
• Carbon storage
• CCS
• Industrial facilities

• To establish carbon storage field
  laboratories where technology developers can field test, validate and demonstrate carbon storage
  technologies that should be accelerated into commercial practice.
• Priority research areas may include, but
  will not be limited to CO2 plume monitoring, other types of cost-effective monitoring using geochemical
  and geophysical processes, remediation and monitoring of wells, pore space utilization, and mineralization
  approaches.

• Carbon storage field
  laboratories
• Carbon storage
  technologies

• To support a new cohort of early-career innovators to develop the most
  disruptive and unconventional ideas into transformative new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications.

• Clean energy technologies

• To support the commercialization of direct air capture (DAC) solutions and the development of four regional DAC hubs.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Infrastructure Scaling
     Platforms (ISPs)
  2. Mid-scale Commercial
     Direct Air Capture (MSC
     DAC) Facilities
  3. Large-scale Commercial
     Direct Air Capture (LSC
     DAC) Facilities

• $1.8B in anticipated funding
• Approximately 7-17 awards

• Direct air capture (DAC)
• DAC hubs
• Infrastructure Scaling Platforms (ISPs)
• Mid-scale commercial
  direct air capture (MSC DAC) facilities
• Large-scale commercial
  direct air capture (LSC
  DAC) facilities

• To support research, development, and demonstration of second-life applications for electric drive vehicle batteries that have been used to
  power electric drive vehicles, and technologies and processes for final recycling and disposal of the electric drive vehicle batteries.
• To encourage meaningful
  engagement with and participation of Tribes and all stakeholders, including labor unions, underserved communities, and underrepresented groups.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Improving the Economics of Recycling Lithium Iron Phosphate-Based Li-ion Batteries
  2. Improving the Recovery and Re-use of Electrolyte Components from
     Lithium-Ion Batteries
  3. Upcycling and Improving the Value of Recovered Materials from Electric
     Drive Vehicle Batteries
  4. Demonstrating Improved State of Health (SOH) Evaluation and Safety for Second-Use Applications of Electric Drive Vehicle Batteries

• Second-life applications
• Electric drive vehicle batteries
• Final recycling and disposal
• Lithium iron phosphate-based Li-ion batteries
• Recovery and re-use
• Electrolyte components
• 
  Lithium-ion batteries
• Upcycling

• To support research and development related to high voltage direct current power circuit
  breakers (HVDC PCB).
• To develop HVDC PCB technical standards and explore innovative concepts that aim to reduce the cost and footprint of HVDC PCB technology.

• Transmission
• High voltage direct current power circuit breakers (HVDC PCB)

• To target research, development, and demonstration
  (RD&D) topics critical to scaling hydrogen infrastructure and enabling increased adoption of clean hydrogen across sectors, particularly in heavy-duty (HD) vehicles and other heavy-duty
  transportation applications, which supports the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation
  Decarbonization.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Device Scale Up
  2. High-Performance Materials for Hydrogen Service, Including Cryogenic and/or High-Pressure Conditions
  3. Sustainable High-Temperature Proton Exchange Membranes and Ionomers for
     Heavy-Duty Transportation Applications
  4. Domestic Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Motorcoach Bus Development and
     Demonstration

Hydrogen infrastructure
• Clean hydrogen
• Heavy-duty vehicles
Hydrogen transportation

• To reimburse the incrementally higher costs of using or
  provide an incentive1
  amount to eligible recipients for the use, in projects, of construction
  materials and products that have substantially lower levels of embodied GHG emissions associated with all relevant stages of
  production, use, and disposal as compared to estimated industry averages of similar materials or
  products.
• The program will also serve to help eligible transportation agencies update or develop
  specification language and conduct identification activities needed to demonstrate materials are
  appropriate for use on Federal-aid construction projects.
• Funds made available for the LCTM Program will be awarded for the use of substantially lower
  carbon materials and products on construction projects funded under title 23 U.S.C. and
  necessary work to identify appropriateness for use of these materials on eligible projects.

• Low carbon materials
• Transportation materials

• To seek financial assistance awards that
  would support the Office of Electricity's priorities of enabling a reliable, resilient, secure, and affordable electricity grid.
• To facilitate innovative energy storage technology material, subcomponent, component, or system design to improve the pre-production manufacturability of one or more energy storage technologies.
• To advance the TRL and MRL of an energy storage technology and
  contribute to reducing the levelized cost of storage and advancing short-, medium-, and long-duration energy storage technologies to meet customer needs.

• Electricity grid
• Energy storage technology
• Short-, medium-, and long-duration energy storage

• To complement a separate funding program for established Regional Ocean
  Partnerships (ROPs), which seeks to enhance and sustain the efforts of those ROPs to
  coordinate interstate and intertribal management of ocean and coastal management issues.
• The scope of work under this program focuses on encouraging or enhancing tribal
  involvement in or engagement with established ROPs, and/or tribal activities related to ROP priority actions.

• $1.5M in total funding
• Approximately 6-30 awards

• Regional Ocean
  Partnerships (ROPs)
• Ocean and coastal management

• To seek applications for financial
  assistance awards supporting research and development (R&D) projects to develop technologies
  reducing carbon emissions from gas turbines providing baseload and dispatchable power to the US power grid to enable net-zero carbon energy production.
• To develop technologies to enable the existing gas turbine power infrastructure to achieve net-zero carbon energy through the utilization of carbon-free fuels or through the enhancement of post-combustion carbon capture technology via exhaust gas
  recirculation
• Areas of Interest (AOIs) include:
  1. Hydrogen Combustion Systems for Gas Turbines
  2. Exhaust Gas Recirculation Systems for Gas Turbines

• Gas turbines
• Power grid
• Net-zero carbon energy production
• Gas turbine power
• Carbon-free fuels
• Post-combustion carbon capture technology via exhaust gas
  recirculation
• Hydrogen combustion systems
• Exhaust gas recirculation systems

• To provide financial compensation to private forest
  landowners for the implementation of practices that provide measurable increases in carbon
  sequestration and storage, as directed by the Inflation Reduction Act.
• To propose practice lists and project designs that will optimize carbon
  sequestration and storage while also sustaining other critical benefits that forests provide.
1. USDA Forest Service defines carbon stewardship as actions, informed by science, that
   provide for increased carbon uptake and storage or increased stabilization through land-use and
   vegetation management strategies.
2. Thoughtful carbon stewardship seeks to optimize carbon
   within the context of ecosystem integrity and climate adaptation, not to maximize carbon at the expense of forest health or habitat

• $50M in total funding
• Approximately 10 awards

• Private forest
  landowners
• Carbon
  sequestration and storage
• Carbon stewardship
• Land-use and
  vegetation management strategies

• To support state-endorsed programs to issue cost share payments to landowners for climate mitigation and/or forest resilience practices, as directed by the Inflation Reduction Act.
• Funding can be used to establish new cost share programs or augment existing cost share programs.

• $140M in total funding
• Approximately 9-28 awards

• Climate mitigation
• Forest resilience practices
• Landowners

• To solicit applications for Stage Two Strengthening
  Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) grants.
• Funds for the fiscal year (FY)
  2024 SMART Grants Program are to be awarded on a competitive basis to prior 2022 Stage One
  recipients in order to implement the plans and prototypes previously developed in Stage One that will advance smart city or community technologies and systems to improve transportation
  efficiency and safety.
  1. Note: only recipients of SMART Stage One Planning and Prototyping Grants, or eligible entities
     designated by Stage One SMART recipients, awarded under the FY22 SMART Stage One
     NOFO, may apply for this Stage Two Implementation Grants.

• $50M in total funding
• Approximately 3-5 awards

• SMART grants
• Transportation
  efficiency and safety
• Connected vehicles
• Transportation
• Innovative aviation technology
• Smart grid

• To advance RDD&D in
  several areas critical to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, including:
  demonstration of smart charge management of electric vehicles (EVs), development of
  innovative battery chemistries and component materials, reduction of cascading battery fires,
  and battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing cost reduction.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Demonstration of Smart Charge Management for Electric Vehicles
  2. Improved 12 Volt Lead Acid Batteries for Safety-Critical Electric Vehicle
     Applications
  3. Develop Vehicle or Structural Level Strategies to Reduce the Likelihood of
     the Cascading Effects of Electric Vehicle Fires
  4. Battery Electrode, Cell, and Pack Manufacturing Cost Reduction
  5. Silicon-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
  6. High Energy Density Conversion Cathodes

• Electric vehicles (EVs)
• Battery chemistries and component materials
• Battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing

• To provide grants to strategically deploy publicly accessible EV
  charging infrastructure, hydrogen fueling
  infrastructure, propane fueling infrastructure, and
  natural gas fueling infrastructure in certain
  locations or along designated AFCs that will be
  accessible to all drivers of EVs, hydrogen
  vehicles, propane vehicles, and natural gas
  vehicles.

• Electric vehicles (EVs)
Charging infrastructure
• Hydrogen fueling
  infrastructure
• Propane fueling infrastructure
• Natural gas fueling infrastructure
• Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs)

• To support research and development (R&D) for facilities to test a variety of carbon
  management technologies.
• Test centers
  will support performance validation and scale-up of a suite of carbon management technologies.
• Areas of interest include:
  1. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at an Electric Generating Unit
  2. Enabling Capital Improvements at an Existing Carbon Capture Test Center
  3. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at a Cement Manufacturing
     Facility

• Carbon capture
• Carbon removal
• Carbon conversion test centers
• Carbon management technologies
• Electric generating units
• Industrial manufacturing facilities

• Competitive grant program to conduct demonstration
  projects focused on advanced smart city or community technologies and systems to improve transportation
  efficiency and safety.

• $50M in total funding
• Approximately 30 awards

• Transportation
• Connected vehicles
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Innovative aviation technology
• Smart grid

• For municipality- or community-owned
  utilities seeking assistance in repairing,
  rehabilitating, or replacing high-risk, leak-prone natural gas distribution
  infrastructure, or in acquiring equipment to reduce incidents and fatalities and
  avoid economic losses.
• To focus on projects that will have the greatest benefits for communities
  of all sizes needing the most support to make their natural gas
  distribution pipelines safer for their residents and businesses, and to
  protect our environment from dangerous incidents and/or leaks.
• Protect the environment and reduce climate impacts by remediating
  aged and failing natural gas distribution pipelines and distribution
  pipe prone to leakage.
• To benefit disadvantaged communities, in both rural and urban areas, by reducing incidents and fatalities, and avoiding economic losses caused by natural gas distribution pipeline failures.

• Natural gas
• Distribution infrastructure
• Pipelines
• Leakage

• To
  incentivize and accelerate the replacement of existing non-ZE Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles
  with ZE vehicles.
• To reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas
  emissions, especially in nonattainment areas and areas with environmental justice concerns, by
  encouraging the sustainable deployment of ZE heavy-duty vehicles.
• There are two separate sub-programs under this NOFO:
  1. The School Bus Sub-Program
  2. The Vocational Vehicles Sub-Program

• $932M in total funding
• Approximately 40-160 awards

• Non-ZE Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles
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• School bus
• Vocational vehicles

• To address offshore wind research priorities for floating offshore wind systems
  and fixed-bottom offshore wind foundations, develop technologies to monitor birds and bats
  offshore, connect domestic manufacturing and supply chain assets to the U.S. and global
  offshore wind development pipeline, create a university-led center of excellence for floating offshore wind and advance offshore wind turbine lighting protection.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Floating Offshore Wind Platform Research and Development
  2. Alternative Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Foundation Types and
     Installation Techniques
  3. Technology Advancement for
     Bird and Bat Research Offshore
  4. Development of a
     Manufacturing and Supply Chain Offshore
     Wind Consortium Based in the Great Lakes Region
  5. Floating Offshore Wind Center
     of Excellence
  6. Protecting the Future Offshore
     Wind Fleet against Lightning

• $48M in total funding
• Approximately 13-22 awards

• Offshore wind
• Floating offshore wind systems
• Fixed-bottom offshore wind foundations
• Domestic manufacturing and supply chains

• To provide funding to
  designated recipients and direct
  recipients under FTA’s Urbanized Area
  Formula Program, as well as public
  entities engaged in providing public
  transportation passenger ferry service in urban areas that are eligible to be direct
  recipients.
• Projects funded under the
  program will improve the condition and
  quality of existing passenger ferry
  services, support the establishment of
  new passenger ferry services, and repair
  and modernize ferry boats, terminals,
  and related facilities and equipment.
• Grants will be
  awarded under this program for the
  purchase of electric or low-emitting
  ferries, the electrification of or other
  reduction of emissions from existing
  ferries, and related charging or other
  fueling infrastructure (for which the
  applicants will maintain satisfactory
  continuing control) to reduce emissions
  or produce zero onboard emissions
  under normal operation.

• Ferry boats, terminals
• Low-emitting
  ferries
• Fueling infrastructure

• To support the research, development and demonstration (RD&D) of smart
  manufacturing technologies that can contribute to a resilient, responsive, leading-edge and efficient manufacturing sector that delivers the technologies needed for the nation’s clean
  energy transition.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy
  2. Smart Manufacturing for Tooling and Equipment
  3. Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials
  4. Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive US Mining

• Smart
  manufacturing technologies
• Manufacturing sector
• Circular economy
• High performance materials

• To partner with organizations to help improve understanding and develop cooperative action on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) by reaching out to additional international and national organizations to conduct a series of co-related tasks that mutually serve the mission of the public as well as FECM.
• Programs Areas and Areas of Interest include:
  1. Program Area 1: Carbon Management Technologies
     1. Carbon Management Technology Consultation, Analysis and Cooperation
     2. Carbon Management Technology Outreach
     3. Carbon Management Technology Technical Conference and Workshop Support
  2. Program Area 2: Domestic and International Oil, Natural Gas, Methane Hydrates, Hydrogen, and Critical Minerals
  3. Oil, Natural Gas, Hydrogen, and Critical Minerals Consultation, Analysis, and Cooperation
  4. Oil, Natural Gas, Methane Hydrates, Hydrogen, and Critical Minerals Bilateral and Regional Initiatives and Activities

• Carbon management technologies
• Carbon dioxide removal
• Oil, natural gas, methane hydrates
• Hydrogen
• Critical minerals

• To collect and disseminate benchmark aerodynamic data to inform the design of next-generation wind turbine airfoils and blades.
• To develop and validate improved modeling and simulation tools for the behavior of idling or parked wind blades.
• To provide the wind industry with physical insights and trustworthy models to minimize the risk of developing and deploying large offshore wind turbines.

• $5.1M in total funding
• Approximately 1-3 awards

• Wind turbines
• Airfoils and blades
• Wind industry

• To support freight and highway projects in rural areas.
• Eligible projects for Rural grants include highway, bridge, and tunnel projects that help improve freight, safety, and provide or increase access to agricultural, commercial, energy, or transportation facilities that support the economy of a rural area.

• Multimodal freight
• Highway projects
• Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity
• MPDG

• To support large, complex projects that are difficult to fund by other means and likely to generate national or regional economic, mobility, or safety benefits.
• Eligible projects include:
  1. A highway or bridge project on the National Multimodal Freight Network
  2. A highway or bridge project on the National Highway Freight Network
  3. A highway or bridge project on the National Highway System
  4. A freight intermodal (including public ports) or freight rail project that provides public benefit
  5. A railway highway grade separation or elimination project
  6. An intercity passenger rail project
  7. A public transportation project that is eligible under assistance under Chapter 53 of title 49 and is a part of any of the project types described above

• Multimodal freight
• Highway projects
• Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity
• MPDG

• To award
  competitive grants for multimodal freight and highway projects of national or regional significance to improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of the movement of freight and people in and across rural and urban areas.
• Eligible projects include:
  A highway freight project on the National Highway Freight Network
  1. A highway or bridge project on the National Highway System
  2. A freight intermodal, freight rail, or freight project within the boundaries of a public or private freight rail, water (including ports), or intermodal facility and that is a surface transportation infrastructure project necessary to facilitate direct intermodal interchange, transfer, or access into or out of the facility
  3. A highway-railway grade crossing or grade separation project
  4. A wildlife crossing project
  5. A surface transportation project within the boundaries or functionally connected to an international border crossing that improves a facility owned by Fed/State/local government and increases throughput efficiency
  6. A project for a marine highway corridor that is functionally connected to the NHFN and is likely to reduce road mobile source emissions
  7. A highway, bridge, or freight project on the National Multimodal Freight Network

• Multimodal freight
• Highway projects
• Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity
• MPDG

• To provide technical assistance (TA) (e.g., information, training, tools, expert advice) to businesses to encourage the development and implementation of source reduction practices (also known as “pollution prevention” or “P2”).
• EPA’s P2 Program has six program priorities referred to as P2 National Emphasis
  Areas (NEAs):
  1. Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing
  2. Chemical Manufacturing, Processing and Formulation
  3. Automotive Manufacturing and Maintenance
  4. Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing and Maintenance
  5. Metal Manufacturing and Fabrication
  6. Supporting Pollution Prevention in Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages

• $9.94M in total funding
• Approximately 25 awards

• Pollution prevention
• P2
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing
• Chemical Manufacturing, Processing and Formulation
• Automotive Manufacturing and Maintenance
• Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing and Maintenance
• Metal Manufacturing and Fabrication

• Funded by the BIL, to provide technical assistance (TA) (e.g., information, training, tools, expert advice) to businesses
  to encourage the development and implementation of source reduction practices (also known as “pollution prevention” or “P2”).
• EPA’s P2 Program has six program priorities referred to as P2 National Emphasis
  Areas (NEAs):
  1. Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing
  2. Chemical Manufacturing, Processing and Formulation
  3. Automotive Manufacturing and Maintenance
  4. Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing and Maintenance
  5. Metal Manufacturing and Fabrication
  6. Supporting Pollution Prevention in Indian Country and Alaska Native Villages

• $13.9M in total funding
• Approximately 50 awards

• Pollution prevention
• P2
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Processing
• Chemical Manufacturing, Processing and Formulation
• Automotive Manufacturing and Maintenance
• Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing and Maintenance
• Metal Manufacturing and Fabrication

• To conduct climate and air
  quality planning activities under the EPA’s Clean Ports Program.
• To fund climate and air quality planning activities at United States ports – including emissions
  inventories, strategy analysis, community engagement, and resiliency measure identification –
  that will build the capacity of port stakeholders to continue to reduce pollution and transition to zero-emissions (ZE) operations over time.
• To fund climate and air quality
  planning activities focused on one or more ports that fall under the
  categories of emissions inventory and accounting exercises, strategy analysis and goal-setting, stakeholder collaboration and communication, and resilience planning.

• $150M in total funding
• Approximately 50-70 awards

• EPA Clean Ports Program
• Emissions
  inventories
• Port stakeholders
• Zero-emissions (ZE) operations
• Climate and air quality planning activities

• To help ports nationwide transition to zero-emission (ZE) operations under the EPA’s Clean Ports Program.
• To fund ZE port equipment and infrastructure to reduce mobile source
  emissions (criteria pollutants, air toxics, and/or greenhouse gases) at United States ports,
  delivering cleaner air for communities across the country.
• to fund deployment of strategies and
  solutions that will help ports achieve zero-emission operations. This includes funding the
  purchase of ZE equipment, technologies, and related infrastructure directly serving a port, as well as funding support expenses related to deployment.

• $2.79B in total funding
• Approximately 32-90 awards

• EPA Clean Ports Program
• Zero-emission (ZE) operations
• ZE port equipment and infrastructure
• Mobile source
  emissions
• Criteria pollutants, air toxics, greenhouse gases
• at United States ports,
  delivering cleaner air for communities across the country.
• ZE equipment, technologies, and related infrastructure

• To provide discretionary grants to States, metropolitan planning organizations (MPO), cities, and
  municipalities to advance innovative, integrated, and multimodal solutions to congestion relief in
  the most congested metropolitan areas of the United States.
• To reduce highway congestion, reduce economic and environmental
  costs associated with that congestion, including transportation emissions, and optimize existing
  highway capacity and usage of highway and transit systems through:
  1. Improving intermodal integration with highways, highway operations, and highway
     performance
  2. Reducing or shifting highway users to off- peak travel times or to nonhighway travel
     modes during peak travel times
  3. Pricing of, or based on, as applicable, parking, use of roadways, including in designated geographic zones, or congestion

• $150M in total funding
• Approximately
  15 awards

• Congestion relief
• Economic and environmental costs
• Transportation emissions
• Transit systems

• To implement pollution prevention projects through the Source Reduction Assistance (SRA) grant program.
• SRA gants can support research, investigation,
  experiments, surveys, studies, demonstration, education, and/or training using source
  reduction approaches (also known as “pollution prevention” or “P2”).

• $1.5M in total funding
• Approximately 7-27 awards

• Pollution prevention
• Source Reduction Assistance (SRA)
• P2

• To support Tribal access to emerging private markets
  for forest resilience or climate mitigation

• $20M in total funding
• Approximately 10 awards

• Forest landowner
• Tribes
• Climate mitigation
• Climate resilience

• To provide funding for the purchase or lease of zero-emission and low-emission transit
  buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities such as recharging, refueling, and maintenance facilities.

• Energy efficient transit vehicles
• Zero-emission buses
• Low-emission transit buses
• Bus facility capital projects

• To evaluate properties and effectiveness of steel slag for use in concrete and cement and as construction material for transportation infrastructure.
• Reduce carbon emissions associated with the extraction and manufacture of construction materials and the construction and maintenance of infrastructure.
• Develop tools, technologies, and guidance to improve infrastructure durability, longevity, and sustainability through innovative materials and structures
• Ensure research investments are fully leveraged through the demonstration and deployment of the resulting products and innovations.

• $5M in total funding
• Approximately 1 award

• Steel slag
• Concrete
• Cement
• Transportation infrastructure

• To assist in funding eligible projects for the purpose of improving the safety, efficiency, or reliability of the movement of goods through ports and intermodal connections to
  ports under the PIDP.
• Grants may be made for capital projects that will be used to improve the safety, efficiency, or reliability of:
  1. The loading and unloading of goods at the port, such as for marine terminal equipment
  2. The movement of goods into, out of, around, or within a port, such as for highway or rail
     infrastructure, intermodal facilities, freight intelligent transportation systems, and digital
     infrastructure systems
  3. Operational improvements, including projects to improve port resilience
  4. Environmental and emissions mitigation measures, including:
     1. Port electrification or electrification master planning
     2. Development of port or terminal microgrids
     3. Installation of port bunkering facilities from ocean-going vessels for fuels
     4. Electric vehicle charging or hydrogen refueling infrastructure for drayage and medium or heavy duty trucks and locomotives that service the port and related grid upgrades

• Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP)
• Highway and rail infrastructure
• Intermodal facilities
• Port resilience
• Port electrification
• Port and terminal microgrids
• Port bunkering facilities
• Electric vehicle charging
• Hydrogen refueling infrastructure

• To support a broad technology portfolio that includes alternative fuels, workforce development and training, and other efficient advanced technologies that can reduce transportation energy costs for businesses and consumers.
• Includes projects to disseminate data, information, and insight, as well as online tools and technology assistance to cities and regions working to implement alternative fuels and energy efficient mobility technologies and systems.
• Following areas of interest may include:
  1. Clean Cities Outreach, Engagement, and Technical Assistance
  2. Training on Zero Emission Vehicle and Infrastructure Technologies for Critical Emergency Response Workers
  3. Demonstration and Deployment Open Topic

• Technology Integration Program
• Clean Cities
• Alternative fuels
• Advanced vehicle technologies
• Transportation costs
• Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs)

• To support research and development (R&D) for a variety of carbon management technologies, focusing on several areas of interest responsive to the carbon management programmatic policies.
• The possible FOA will be both a multi-programmatic and multi-year opportunity potentially soliciting work in any, or all, of
  the following topic areas: carbon conversion, carbon dioxide removal (CDR), point source carbon capture, and carbon transport and storage.
• Specific areas of interest include:
  1. Carbon Conversion Technology
     1. Non-Photosynthetic Biological Conversion of CO₂
     2. Conversion of CO₂ to Plastics
     3. Conversion of CO₂ to Solid Carbon Products
  2. Point Source Carbon Capture Technology
     1. Development of Enabling Technologies for Carbon Capture Systems Installed at Natural
        Gas, Coal, or Industrial Facilities

• Carbon management
• Carbon conversion
• Carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
• Point source carbon capture
• Carbon transport
• Carbon storage
• Non-photosynthetic biological conversion
• Plastic conversion
• Solid carbon products
• Natural gas, coal, industrial facilities

• The NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is an initiative designed to
  make significant contributions to characterizing, quantifying, understanding, and
  predicting the evolution of global carbon sources, sinks, and fluxes through improved
  monitoring of terrestrial and aquatic carbon stocks and fluxes.
• NASA requests proposals for investigations that will advance products toward the CMS
  end goal: development of prototype carbon monitoring systems from an Earth’s system
  perspective.
• Areas of interest include terrestrial, atmospheric, and aquatic realms.

• $3.5M in total funding
• Approximately 12-16 awards

• Carbon Monitoring System (CMS)
• Carbon stocks
• Carbon fluxes

• The RAISE grants are designed to fund eligible projects to invest in surface transportation that will have significant local or regional impact in order to improve safety, economic strength, competitiveness, equity, climate goals, and sustainability.
• DOE seeks to fund projects under the RAISE program that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation sector, incorporate evidence-based climate resilience measures, and address the disproportionate negative environmental impacts of transportation on disadvantaged communities.
• Eligible projects include:
  1. Highway or bridge projects
  2. Public transportation projects
  3. Passenger and freight rail transportation projects
  4. Intermodel projects
  5. Others

• RAISE grants
• Surface transportation
• Transportation sector
• Highway
• Bridge
• Passenger rail
• Freight rail
• Intermodel transportation

• The Community Change Grants are the final and most comprehensive piece of EPA’s implementation of ECJP IRA funding, empowering communities and their partners to design, develop, and implement multi-faceted community-driven projects.
• These programs will address the diverse and unique needs of disadvantaged communities by:
  1. Reducing and preventing pollution
  2. Building resilience to climate change and mitigating current and future climate risks
  3. Enhancing meaningful involvement in government processes related to environmental and climate justice
  4. Expanding access to high-quality jobs and economic opportunity through workforce development
  5. Bolstering community strength by ensuring that local residents receive the benefits of investments and have the opportunity to build on them for current and future generations.
• EPA will consider applications under two separate tracks:
  1. Track I – Community-Driven Investments for Change
  2. Track II – Meaningful Engagement foe Equitable Governance

• $2B in total funding
• Approximately 170 awards

• Community Change Grants
• Environmental Justice
• EJ
• Climate Justice
• ECJP IRA
• Pollution prevention
• Economic opportunity
• Equitable governance

• Solicits applications from eligible entities to develop projects for hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) reclamation and innovative destruction technologies.
• Grants will be used to support and contribute to addressing HFCs under the AIM Act by funding the following project areas:
  1. Reclaim Technologies
  2. Reclaim Market Dynamics
  3. Innovative Destruction Technologies

• $14.25M in total funding
• Approximately 4-9 awards

• Hydroflurocarbons
• HCFs
• Destruction technologies

• To support the development of planning and strategies for utilizing organic
  waste as a feedstock for various transportation fuel end products.
• Wastes include food waste, municipal wastewater sludges, animal manure, fats, oils, and greases.
• The planned FOA is intended to help communities realize synergies between waste infrastructure and sustainable transportation needs.
• Permissible fuels from
  projects funded under this FOA could include renewable natural gas, partially upgraded biogas,
  hydrogen, biocrude, renewable diesel, renewable di-methyl-ether, or others.
• Topic areas include:
  1. Supporting feasibility studies
  2. Supporting more detailed engineering design work to position communities for future projects and demonstrations

• Organic waste
• Feedstock for transportation fuels
• Food waste
• Municipal wastewater sludges
• Animal manure
• Fats, oils, greases
• Renewable natural gas
• Partially upgraded biogas
• Hydrogen
• Biocrude
• Renewable diesel
• Renewable di-methyl-ether

• To increase the robustness of greenhouse gas emissions data associated with the production, use, and disposal of construction materials and products.


• To assist businesses in disclosing and verifying these data via robust Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), as well as states, Indian tribes and non-profit organizations that assist these businesses.


• To spur market demand for construction materials and products that have lower embodied greenhouse gas emissions.

• $100M in total funding
• Up to 40 anticipated awards

• Embodied greenhouse gas emissions


• Construction materials and products


• Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)

• The FAST Grant Program is designed to make grants available to eligible entities for projects that support sustainable aviation fuels and low-emission aviation technologies.


• The grant program will have elements focused on sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), to be termed FAST-SAF, and elements focused on low-emission aviation technologies, to be termed FAST-Tech.

li>Approximately $244M in total funding for FAST-SAF Program
• Approximately $46M for FAST-Tech Program

• Sustainable aviation fuel


• Low-emission aviation technologies


• FAST-SAF
• FAST-Tech
• FAST Grant Program
• Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)

• Competitive grants to implement greenhouse gas reduction programs, policies, projects, and measures (GHG reduction measures) identified in a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) developed under a Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) planning grant.

• $4.3B in total funding
• Approximately 30-115 awards

• Greenhouse gas reduction programs


• Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP)


• Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG)

• Competitive grants to implement greenhouse gas reduction programs, policies, projects, and measures (GHG reduction measures) identified in a Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP) developed under a Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) planning grant exclusively for tribes and territories.

• $300M in total funding
• Approximately 25-100 awards

• Greenhouse gas reduction programs


• Priority Climate Action Plan (PCAP)


• Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG)


• Tribes and territories

• To improve the reliability of existing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure by repairing and replacing existing chargers that are broken or non-operational.
  

• Electric vehicles


• EVs


• Charging Infrastructure

• Assists communities with extremely high energy costs to acquire, construct, or improve energy generation, transmission, or distribution facilities where the average annual residential expenditure for home energy exceeds 275% of the national average.


• Also includes on-grid and off-grid renewable energy projects and the implementation of energy efficiency and energy conservation projects for eligible communities.
  

• High energy costs


• Generation


• Transmission


• Distribution


• On-grid / off-grid


• Renewable energy projects


• Energy efficiency


• Energy conservation

• Competitive grant program directed by the Inflation Reduction Act


• Elements focused on sustainable aviation fuels (FAST-SAF) and low-emission aviation technologies (FAST-Tech)


• IRA appropriated $300 million for the two programs.
  

• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

• Incentivizes and accelerates the upgrading or retirement of the nation’s legacy diesel engine fleet.


• Provides funding for the retrofit or replacement of existing diesel engines, vehicles, and equipment with EPA and California Air Resources Board (CARB) certified engine configurations and verified retrofit and idle reduction technologies.
  

• Total funding of $115 million
• $58M FY 2022 funding
• $57M FY 2023 funding
• Expect 4-10 agreements per each of EPA’s ten regions

• Diesel emissions reductions retrofit


• Idle reduction


• Certified engine


• Equipment


• Vehicles

• To to obtain perspectives regarding:
  1. Aspects of the CarbonSAFE initiative, its objectives, and the design of DE-FOA0002711 that have been the most successful in achieving the CTS Program’s stated
     vision of “support(ing) rapid deployment of carbon storage necessary to enable
     the decarbonization of the U.S. economy.””
  2. How the CarbonSAFE initiative, its objectives, and the design of DE-FOA-0002711 can be modified or improved to better achieve this vision.

• CarbonSAFE
• Carbon transport
• Carbon storage

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program focused on the development of tools to enable plant genetic engineering and synthetic biology.
• To accelerate plant genetic modifications.
• To increase the range of genetic modifications possible.
• To decrease the variability and reducing the difficulty of regenerating plants after genetic
  modifications.

• Plant genetic engineering
• Synthetic biology

• To solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on
  issues related to EERE’s strategic framework to increase product and material
  circularity.
• This feedback will help ensure EERE’s investments in this space are
  optimally positioned to address opportunities and challenges related to increasing
  circularity.

• Circularity
• Sustainable products

• To solicit information on PVT technology, including but not limited to business, state-of-the-art, regulatory statutes, and consumer opinion.
• To solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories,
  state and local government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to PVT
  technologies and market.

• Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) systems
• Solar
• Domestic markets
• Thermal performance

• To solicit feedback from affected stakeholders on the Energy Efficiency Scaling for Two Decades
  (EES2) Initiative in general and on the draft EES2 Research and Development (R&D) Roadmap that
  accompanies this RFI.
• The Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) is specifically
  interested in feedback on the initial version (1.0) of the EES2 technology roadmap that accompanies this RFI.

• Energy Efficiency Scaling for Two Decades
  (EES2) Initiative
• Semiconductor industry
• Integrated circuits, chips
• Microelectronics

• To seek ideas, input, comments, feedback, and recommendations from interested parties for future competitive workforce development programs focused on nuclear safety training for the workforce
  that supports the continued safe operation of existing nuclear power plants.

• Workforce development programs
• Nuclear safety training
• Nuclear power plants

• To understand the supply chains for production and uses of renewable propane and other
  renewable gaseous intermediates.
• Specifically, DOE would like to understand the potential for
  R&D to increase the viability of renewable propane to pursue new production pathways to
  sustainable aviation fuel and other high-impact products from municipal waste; agricultural
  residue; forest resources; and fats, oils, and greases.

• Renewable propane
• Renewable gaseous intermediates
• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
• Municipal waste
• Agricultural
  residue
• Forest resources
• Fats, oils, and greases

• To solicit input on procedures for the quantification, reporting, and verification of the effect of climate-smart farming practices on the greenhouse gas (GHG) net emissions estimates associated with the production of domestic (i.e.,
  grown in the U.S.) agricultural commodities used as biofuel feedstocks.
• Seeks information on practices that have the potential to mitigate GHG emissions and/or sequester carbon, and quantification, reporting, and verification approaches for the GHG outcomes associated with domestic agricultural commodities used as biofuel feedstocks.
• Topics of interest include:
  1. Biofuel feedstock crops and practices for consideration in USDA’s analysis
  2. Scientific data, information, and analysis for consideration in quantifying the GHG emissions outcomes of climate-smart agricultural practices and conventional farming practices
  3. Records, documentation, and data necessary to provide sufficient evidence to verify practice adoption and maintenance
  4. Systems used to trace feedstocks throughout the biofuel supply chain
  5. Third-party verification of practice adoption and maintenance.

• Climate-smart farming practices
• Agricultural commodities
• Biofuels
• Biofuel feedstocks
• Feedstock crops
• Biofuel supply chain
• Third-party verification

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program
  focused on leveraging material, process, equipment, and cross-supply chain manufacturing innovations
  to catalyze domestic production of cathode active materials (CAMs) and their precursors (pCAMs).

• Supply chain manufacturing
• Cathode active materials (CAMs) and their precursors (pCAMs)

• To obtain
  information to inform a new DOE vision study, Pathways for U.S. Industrial Transformations:
  Unlocking American Innovation, which is identifying cost-effective and industry-specific
  strategic pathways to achieve a thriving U.S. industrial sector with net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.
• This RFI is focused on input on industrial technological, financial, social, environmental, and
  health aspects as they pertain to the challenges, barriers, opportunities, and pathways to
  achieve net-zero emissions from the industrial sector by 2050.
• This RFI seeks input on four categories:
  1. Industrial Decarbonization Challenges,
     Barriers, and Cross-Cutting Strategies
  2. Framework for Industrial Decarbonization
     Pathways
  3. Impacts and Evaluation Criteria for Industrial Decarbonization Pathways
  4. Net-zero Decarbonization Pathways for Specific Industrial Subsectors

• Industrial transformation
• Industrial decarbonization
• Decarbonization pathways
• Cement
• Chemicals
• Food and beverage
• Iron and steel
• Pulp and paper
• Petroleum refining
• Manufacturing
• Agriculture and forestry
• Mining
• Oil
• Gas
• Construction
• Water and wastewater treatment

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program
  focused on the development of technologies to recover high energy-value materials from wastewater to
  reduce energy demands and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with conventional sourcing and waste stream treatment.
• To evaluate technologies capable of efficiently recovering:
  1. Ammonia (or ammonia with phosphorus) as a high-quality feedstock for direct input to fertilizer
     supply chains or hydrogen carrier markets
  2. Critical minerals that can displace metal ore production or overseas procurement for domestic use

• High energy-value materials
• Wastewater
• Waste stream treatment
• Ammonia
• Critical minerals

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program
  focused on accelerating the heterogeneous catalyst development cycle for incorporation into reactors, devices, equipment, unit operations, and process technology applications relevant to the U.S. 2050 net
  zero goals.
• To decrease the length of development cycles while
  capturing significant energy efficiency increases, emissions reductions, and/or precious metal
  reductions.
• To identify potentially disruptive techniques or workflows that expedite:
  1. Integration of catalytic material discovery and synthesis with device (i.e., cell or reactor)
     performance in a rapid, parallel, automated, and/or combinatorial manner.
  2. Utilization of hardware automation and modern data science to generate, handle, and process
     large quantities of high quality, multi-dimensional experimental data.

• Heterogenenous catalysts
• Reactors
• Equipment and devices
• Unit operations
• Process technology applications
• Energy efficiency increases, emissions reductions, precious metal reductions

• To aggregate knowledge from stakeholders to help guide actions
  regarding future propulsion technologies, infrastructure requirements, and coordination among
  key stakeholders to ensure that the sector is meeting or exceeding U.S. decarbonization
  milestones.
• Garnering information on the off-road sector stakeholders’ current alternative fuels
  trajectory, the driving forces behind it, and the key barriers to achieving this transition.
• The
  propulsion technologies under consideration for this RFI are: biodiesel, renewable diesel,
  renewable natural gas, battery electric, direct electrification (catenary), electric hybridization,
  hydrogen fueled internal combustion engines and hydrogen fuel cells.

• Propulsion technologies
• Biodiesel
• Renewable diesel
• Renewable natural gas
• Battery electric
• Direct electrification (catenary)
• Electric hybridization
• Hydrogen fueled internal combustion engines
• Hydrogen fuel cells

• To obtain input to inform DOE’s research and development activities within the Energy Storage Division relating to pre-production design
  challenges associated with energy storage technology manufacturability.
• To gather information on domestic pre-production
  manufacturability challenges that energy storage technology developers face when making design
  decisions that impact production of the technology, including scaling.

• Energy storage technology

• To notify interested
  parties of its intent to implement BSTP and to describe the proposed plan and timeline

• Blue Sky Training Program
• BSTP
• Grid Scale Energy Storage Systems (ESS)

• To solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories,
  government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to U.S domestic wind turbine
  blade manufacturing.
• To seek information on current domestic blade
  manufacturing challenges, future domestic blade manufacturing needs, workforce, and
  stakeholder strategy development.

• Wind blade manufacturing

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program focused
  on the feasibility and impact of retrofitting an existing aircraft with electric powertrains developed under
  ARPA-E’s Aviation-class Synergistically Cooled Electric-motors with iNtegrated Drives (ASCEND) program
  for a full integration with the aircraft and to show full functionality of the electric powertrain.
• ARPA-E is
  interested in groundbreaking technologies needed for a full integration of an electric powertrain into the
  aircraft main electrical and propulsion systems, as well as opportunities in airport electrification.
• Aims to identify potential participants and gather insights to inform the development of a future funding
  opportunity focused on this transformative technology.

• Retrofit aircraft
• Powertrains
• ASCEND
• Electrification

• To
  obtain public input related to the role of mid-scale commercial direct air capture
  demonstration facilities (“MSC DAC” facilities with capture capacities of approximately
  5,000 – 25,000 tons per year) in the DAC industry’s commercialization plans.
• The RFI
  seeks to understand how any federal funding for these facilities may be most effective in
  complementing existing Department of Energy DAC programs and accelerating the
  DAC industry’s commercial scale-up, all while considering potential impacts to local
  communities, including disadvantaged communities.

• Mid-scale commercial direct air capture
  demonstration facilities
• MSC DAC

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program
  focused on identifying transformative technologies across the helium-4 (“helium”) supply chain to decrease the delivered cost of helium from processes not dependent on natural gas production.
• ARPA-E is seeking information regarding alternative methods to safeguard future helium production in the United States and ensure helium availability for next-generation energy technologies.
• ARPA-E is interested in identifying potentially disruptive concepts to:
  1. Develop innovative mapping
     technologies to locate new helium sources; and
  2. Produce helium using advanced separation
     technologies designed for novel sources and/or the enhancement of helium recovery and recycling.

• Helium supply chain
• Helium sources
• Advanced separation technologies
• Helium recovery and recycling

• To obtain public input related to a DOE plan to support the demonstration and deployment of carbon capture
  technologies applied to industrial sources of greenhouse gas emissions, supplementing the material included in the DOE report Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Industrial
  Decarbonization.
• To assist DOE in the planning of priorities and
  initiatives to catalyze the development, demonstration, and deployment of carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) for industrial decarbonization.
• Seeks input on what is needed to accelerate deployment of CCUS for industrial systems to support the energy transition,
  eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, produce clean energy, create well-paying union jobs, and
  enable a net-zero carbon emissions economy by 2050, all while prioritizing environmental
  justice.

• Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS)
• Industrial decarbonization
• Carbon capture technology

• To seek insight into the resources and support needed, through its existing or expanded work, to
  ensure successful outcomes of solar and storage deployment serving low-income and
  disadvantaged communities (LIDAC).
• Categories include:
  1. Category 1: Maximizing Impact
  2. Category 2: Customer Satisfaction
  3. Category 3: Workforce and Entrepreneurship Opportunities
  4. Category 4: Long-term Success & Sustainability
  5. Category 5: Relation to Current Programs & Resources

• Solar and storage deployment
• Low-income and
  disadvantaged communities (LIDAC).

• To inform the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
  Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) on specific research, development, and demonstration
  opportunities to enable near-term deployment of receivers for concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants, and reactors for CSP industries.
• To seek insight into the specific challenges preventing more widespread deployment of high temperature receivers for CSP applications.
• Request for Information categories and questions include:
  1. Category A: High temperature receivers for CSP applications (≥650⁰C)
  2. Category B: Low temperature (<300⁰C) CST receivers for IPH applications
  3. Category C: High temperature (≥300⁰C) CST receivers and reactors for IPH applications

• Concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants
• Reactors for CSP industries
• High temperature receivers for CSP applications
• Solar industrial process heat

• To solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, project financiers and insurance providers, community organizations, workforce development and labor organizations, and other stakeholders on issues related to offshore wind and research and development (R&D) and deployment needs that are national and regional in focus, including needs relevant to the Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes, and Gulf of Mexico.
• Request for Information categories and questions includes:
  1. Category 1: Floating Offshore Wind Platform Research and Development
  2. Refinement and Innovation in Floating Platform Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment
  3. Next-Generation Integrated Floating Offshore Wind Turbine/Platform Technologies
  4. Broader Considerations in Floating Offshore Wind Development
• Category 2: Alternative Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Foundation Types and Installation
  Techniques
  1. Offshore Wind Fixed-Bottom Turbine Structures and Foundations
  2. Vessels, Infrastructure, and Deployment
  3. Design to Commercialization Process
• Category 3: Technology Advancement for Bird and Bat Research Offshore
  1. Research & Data Collection
  2. Research Project Parameters
• Category 4: Understanding Specific Supply Chain Needs for Offshore Wind Deployment in the Great Lakes Region
• Category 5: Development of a Manufacturing and Supply Chain Offshore Wind Consortium
  Based in the Great Lakes Region
  1. Contextual Regional Information on Great Lakes Offshore Wind
  2. Great Lakes Supply Chain and Manufacturing Consortium
• Category 6: Offshore Wind Workforce Readiness
  1. Workforce Needs for the Offshore Wind Industry and Associated Supply Chain (For
     Employers)
  2. Workforce Development Strategies Supporting the Offshore Wind Industry (For All
     Stakeholders)

• Offshore wind
• Floating platforms
• Offshore wind turbines
• Supply chains

• To solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories,
  government agencies, and other stakeholders on Part 1 of a draft National Definition for a Zero
  Emissions Building.

• Building decarbonization
• Zero emissions building
• Embodied carbon

• Seeks inputs from multiple stakeholders including, CCS developers,
  storage site operators, federal/state land managers, researchers, regulators, investors, insurers,
  community advocacy leaders, and others.
• To identify the spectrum of needs based on
  their interests and concerns with regards to basin-scale effects of CCS.

• Carbon basin
• Carbon storage
• Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
• Cardon dioxide reduction (CDR)
• CO2 storage sites

• To inform DOE on the specific research, development, and demonstration opportunities to enable near term deployment of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) based turbomachinery for concentrating solar power plants.
• DOE seeks insight into the specific challenges preventing more widespread deployment of sCO2 turbomachinery based applications, and information regarding the prioritization of development activities.
• There are two separate topic areas:
  1. Category A: sCO2 Turbomachinery Sub-Component De-Risking
  2. Category B: sCO2 Turbomachinery Market

• Supercritical carbon dioxide
• sCO2
• Turbomachinery
• Concentrating solar power
  (CSP) plants
• Long duration thermal energy storage (TES)

• To inform DOE’s research and development activities within the Hydrogen with Carbon Management Program’s Gasification Systems area.
• Solicits
  feedback from stakeholders on technologies and strategies that
  companies are deploying, or could deploy, to increase clean hydrogen production from alternative, low-value
  feedstocks, excluding traditional coal and petcoke, at competitive costs and with market factors in play.
• DOE is requesting information on strategies and technologies for developing innovative gasification designs
  for converting biomass/mixed waste feedstocks into syngas to enable the low-cost production of clean
  hydrogen.
• The
  ultimate goal is to develop clean hydrogen production 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.

• Gasification
• Clean hydrogen production
• Alternative, low-value feedstocks
• Carbon capture
• Carbon emissions
• Biomass feedstocks
• Mixed waste feedstocks
• Syngas

• To establish a reliable domestic supply of fuels for advanced reactors using high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) in order to develop and deploy advanced reactors.
• DOE plans to award one or more contracts to deconvert HALEU as uranium hexafluoride gas to various chemical forms, such as metal or oxide, used to fabricate fuels required by many advanced reactor developers.
  1. The deconverted material will be stored until there is a need to ship it to a fuel fabricator or other end user

• N/A
• At least one award

• HALEU
• High-assay low-enriched uranium
• Advanced reactors
• Nuclear energy
• Uranium hexafluoride gas

• To collect aggregate knowledge from rail stakeholders to help direct actions regarding future propulsion technologies, infrastructure requirements, and coordination among key stakeholders to ensure that the rail sector is meeting or exceeding U.S. decarbonization milestones.
• DOE is interested in information on the rail sector stakeholder’s current alternative fuels trajectory, the driving forces behind it, and the key barriers to achieving this transition.

• Rail sector
• Rail propulsion technologies
• Rail decarbonization
• Alternative fuels trajectory
• Internal combustion engine (ICE)
• Hydrogen fuel cells
• Direct electrification

• Seeks input to inform DOE’s implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), including:
  1. Siting challenges of wind energy developers related to radar interference (Category 1)
  2. Potential mitigation technologies at the radar and/or turbine level that currently exist or are in development to address wind turbine-radar interference (Categories 2 & 3)
  3. Commercialization and market adoption of wind-radar interference mitigation measures, and what obstacles need to be overcome to accelerate commercialization and maximize adoption (Category 4)
  4. BIL Provisions and Requirements and Buy America Requirements (Categories 5 and 7)
  5. Effective solicitation process, Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) structure, and implementation strategies to enable the commercialization and market adoption of wind-radar interference mitigation measures (Category 6)

• Wind energy and turbines
• Radar technology
• Wind turbine-radar interference

• To solicit input for a potential ARPA-E program
  focused on the development of technologies to reduce nitrogen inputs and soil-based greenhouse gas emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) from the cultivation of bioenergy crops (i.e., corn, soybean, and
  sorghum).
• The goals for this programmatic concept include the evaluation of technologies capable of:
  1. Providing high-efficacy, low energy-intensive alternatives to synthetic fertilizer in agricultural production by advancing microbial fertilization approaches, enhancing plant nitrogen (N) use efficiency-related traits, and developing enabling tools for autogenic N2 fixation.
  2. Reducing soil-based N2O emissions in growing these crops by altering the microbial N-cycle either through microbial and/or plant approaches.

• Nitrogen inputs
• Soil-based greenhouse gas emissions
• Nitrous oxide
• Bioenergy crops
• Corn, soybean, sorghum
• ARPA-E

• Request information on the technical challenges and opportunities for grid integration of solar energy systems and other
  inverter-based resources that include photovoltaics (PV) and energy storage facilities connected
  to bulk power systems, distribution systems, microgrids, and behind-the-meter systems.
• Solicits stakeholder feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, end-user groups, and other relevant organizations related to the cost-effective and reliable integration of solar and other variable and power-electronic based energy sources onto the electric grid.
• Topic areas include:
  1. System Planning for High IBR and DER Futures
  2. System Operation for High IBR and DER Futures
  3. System Resilience for High IBR and DER Futures
  4. Cybersecurity for High IBR and DER Futures
  5. Enabling Technologies for High IBR and DER Futures – Power Electronics, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning
  6. Other Emerging Topics for High IBR and DER Futures

• Solar energy
• Solar inverters
• Photovoltaics (PV)
• Battery energy storage
• Bulk power systems
• Distribution systems
• Microgrids
• Behind-the-meter (BTM) systems
• Electric grid
• Inverter-based resources (IBR)
• Distributed energy resources (DER)

• Solicits feedback on a draft Transmission System
  Interconnection Roadmap prepared by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Interconnection
  Innovation e-Xchange (i2X) program.
• Covers only roadmap interconnection solutions for the
  transmission system/bulk power system.

• Transmission system
• Interconnection
• Bulk power system
• Electric grid

• Solicits feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to the “Building Supply Chains” action area of the SAF Grand Challenge Roadmap.
• The Building Supply Chains action area encompasses feedstock production, collection, and distribution to SAF production facilities; conversion of feedstock to fuel; and transport of finished fuel to the infrastructure required to fuel aircraft.

• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
• SAF Grand Challenge
• Supply chains
• Feedstock production
• Feedstock collection
• Feedstock distribution
• Infrastructure
• Feedstock to fuel
• Aircraft

• Solicits feedback from maritime stakeholders including ports, shippers, cargo owners, fuel producers, marine terminal operators (MTO), trade organizations, industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to the establishment of green shipping corridors between the U.S. and the UK.

• Green shipping corridors
• Cargo
• Ports
• Marine
• Fuel
• Terminal

• To directly connect with entities that are positioned to originate, host, and/or support a value chain emissions reduction project or the increased offtake of low-carbon solutions or materials.
• Up to $5 million per project
• Focused on the hard-to-abate sectors within which Meta’s value chain partners operate.
• Interested organizations must complete the NDA intake request to receive the RFI.

• Trucking
• Aviation
• Maritime
• Cement
• Concrete
• Copper
• Steel
• Manufacturing
• Semiconductor
• Heating and cooling
• Commercial
• Industrial
• Production
• Green hydrogen
• Hard-to-abate

• To provide grants, guaranteed
  loans, and combined grant and
  guaranteed loan combinations to help agricultural
  producers and rural small businesses,
  including those Tribally owned or
  Tribal member owned, reduce energy
  costs and consumption and helps meet
  the Nation’s critical energy needs.

• Agricultural
  producers
• Rural small businesses
• Energy
  costs
• Energy needs

• To support
  the goals of DOE’s Hydrogen Shot, which targets affordable clean hydrogen production at $1/kg by 2031, and the H2@Scale Initiative,
  which aims to advance affordable hydrogen production, transport,
  storage, and utilization to enable decarbonization and revenue
  opportunities across multiple sectors.
• Specific goals in addition to clean hydrogen production of $1/kg by 2031 include: $80/kilowatt
  (kW), 25,000-hour durability for fuel cell systems in heavy-duty
  transportation and reducing hydrogen storage costs to an ultimate goal of $8/kilowatt-hour (kWh).
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Topic 1: Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Device Scale Up
  2. Topic 2: High-Performance Materials for Hydrogen Service,
     Including Cryogenic and/or High-Pressure Conditions
  3. Topic 3: Sustainable High-Temperature Proton Exchange
     Membranes and Ionomers for Heavy-Duty Transportation
     Applications
  4. Topic 4: Domestic Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Motorcoach Bus Development and Demonstration

• $46M in total funding
• Approximately 13-22 awards

• Clean hydrogen production
• Hydrogen production, transport,
  storage, and utilization
• Fuel cell systems
• Heavy-duty
  transportation
• Hydrogen storage
• Photoelectrochemical water splitting
• Cryogenic
• Proton exchange
  membranes and ionomers

• To spur “first mover” teams to deploy the first Gen III+ SMRs in the United States (U.S.) and to provide funding for “fast follower” deployment support, which will address key gaps that have hindered the domestic nuclear industry.

• $900M in total funding
• At least 2 awards

• Nuclear energy
• Generation III+ small modular reactor (Gen III+ SMR)

• To provide support for rural
  and remote communities to build clean energy projects that benefit their communities.
• To deliver measurable and sustained benefits to people who live in rural or remote areas by funding
  replicable clean energy projects that lower energy costs, improve energy access and resilience,
  increase economic opportunity, and/or reduce environmental harm.
• Demonstrate effective rural or remote energy system approaches using climate-resilient
  technologies, business structures that promote economic resilience, accessible and appropriate
  financing mechanisms, and/or best practices in community leadership and engagement, and
  workforce development.
• Build clean energy knowledge, experience, capacity, and self-reliance in rural and remote parts of America.

• $400M in total funding
• Approximately 20-50 awards

• Rural or remote areas
• Clean energy projects
• Remote energy systems

• To support the scaling of high-risk and potentially disruptive
  new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications.

• $50M in funding
• Approximately 2-10 awards

• Innovative R&D
• Early-stage transformational energy technologies

• To advance Tribal energy sovereignty and maximize the deployment of clean, reliable, affordable and local energy
  solutions.
• To solicit
  applications for the planning, assessment, and development of clean energy projects on Tribal Buildings or Tribal Lands.

• $25M in total funding
• Approximately 20-40 awards

• Tribal land
• Tribes
• Clean energy projects

• To overcome the challenges with high-temperature,
  oxygen-conducting, R-SOFC systems which are:
  1. Low total resistance, where total
     resistance includes all ohmic (area specific resistance, ASR), polarization and
     concentration overpotentials
  2. High steam/hydrogen utilization
  3. High
     steam/hydrogen inlet concentration
  4. Low capital cost
  5. High DC efficiency
  6. High hydrogen production rate (HPR)
  7. High current
  8. Low, long-term degradation
     rate at high current (this FOA is not targeting degradation studies at low current)
  9. Low system footprint.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Oxygen-conducting SOFC and SOEC R&D for
     reduced long-term degradation at high current density and high steam utilization
  2. SOFC and SOEC component materials
     thermodynamic database

• $4M in total funding
• Approximately 6 awards

• Hydrogen
• Reversible
  Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (R-SOFCs)
• Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs)
• Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC)

• To support DOE’s current vision to develop secure, diverse, resilient, domestic CMM supply chains by expanding the Programs at FECM and AMMTO to fund additional processing research and development
  (R&D) for the recovery and refining of CMM, as required for critical supply chain use.
• The overall objectives of the FOA are to:
  1. Continue to advance CMM technology
     development, not only in the area of new advanced recovery concepts, but also to
  2. Expand and improve process systems development, optimization, and efficiency,
     to
  3. Improve CMM process system economic feasibility and align production costs with existing market sectors, and to
  4. Produce CMM from multiple, diverse feedstocks including recycled materials.

• $19.5M in total funding
• Approximately 10 awards

• Critical minerals and materials (CMM)
• Recovery and refining
• Carbon manufacturing precursor
  materials from coal, coal Waste and other unconventional carbon-based
  feedstocks
• Heavy rare earth elements (HREE)
• Secondary
  and unconventional resources
• Produced water

• To seek applications to address the design, fabrication, and field testing
  of wave energy converters (WECs), targeting end-use applications.
• To support commercialization of the U.S. wave energy
  industry through open water field testing of wave energy systems and sub-systems.

• Includes technologies across different sizes
  and markets, including grid-connected and non-grid-connected applications.

• $112.5M in total funding
• Approximately 17 awards

• Wave energy converters (WECs)
• Wave energy

• To offer potential funding for development of innovative gasification
  designs/systems for converting alternative feedstocks into syngas to enable the low-cost
  production of clean hydrogen.
• For Research and Development (R&D)
  towards demonstration of entrained flow gasification and fluidized bed technologies is
  sought.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. R&D Towards Demonstration of Entrained Flow Gasification Technologies for
     Alternative Feedstocks
  2. R&D Towards Demonstration of Fluidized Bed Gasification Technologies for
     Alternative Feedstocks

• $15M in total funding
• Approximately 5 awards

• Innovative gasification
  designs/systems
• Clean hydrogen.
• Entrained flow gasification and fluidized bed technologies
• Alternative feedstocks

• To provide funding to enable the design, development, and demonstration of innovative electric vehicle charging infrastructure near key ports, distribution hubs, and major corridors to support medium- and heavy duty (MHD) electric vehicles and enhance grid resiliency and reliability.
• To seek innovative and replicable solutions to support electrified medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), accelerate charging
  infrastructure deployment, reduce grid impacts through vehicle-grid
  integration (VGI) strategies, and drastically reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in support of the Administration goals.

• $72M in total funding
• Approximately 2-3 awards

• Electric vehicle charging infrastructure
• Ports, distribution hubs, and major corridors
• Medium- and heavy duty (MHD)
• Grid resiliency and reliability
• Electrified medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs)
• Charging
  infrastructure
• Vehicle-grid
  integration (VGI)

• To competitively solicit applications for advancing
  cost-effective technology options toward commercialization that can more efficiently characterize the condition of Undocumented Orphaned Wells
  (UOWs) and provide a range of remediation options.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Area of Interest 1: Advanced Remediation Techniques for UOW Boreholes
  2. Area of Interest 2: UOW Wellbore Characterization
  3. Area of Interest 3: Long-Term UOW Monitoring

• $15M in total funding
• Approximately 7 awards

• Undocumented Orphaned Wells
  (UOWs)
• Remediation techniques
• UOW boreholes
• UOW wellbore characterization
• UOW monitoring

• To support high-impact technology RD&D to accelerate the bioeconomy via the production of low-carbon fuels for the aviation, marine, rail, and heavy-duty industries, and renewable chemical production with dramatically reduced lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to the petroleum incumbent.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Topic Area 1: Pilot Scale-up of Integrated Biorefineries – Phase 1 Preliminary Design and Phased Construction
  2. Topic Area 2: Demonstration Scale-up of Integrated Biorefineries – Phase 1 Preliminary Design and Phased Construction
  3. Topic Area 3: Scale-up of Organic Chemical Pathways – Phase 1 Preliminary Design and Phased Construction

• $12M in total funding
• Approximately 12 awards

• Bioeconomy
• Low-carbon fuels for aviation, marine, rail, and heavy-duty industries
• Renewable chemical production
• Integrated biorefineries

• To fund technology demonstrations for energy storage solutions at the pilot-scale. The
  program will focus on non-lithium technologies, long-duration (10+ hour discharge) systems, and stationary
  storage applications.
• To advance a diverse set of non-lithium energy storage technologies towards commercial viability and
  utility-scale deployment.
• To generate high-quality operational datasets and techno-economic models.
• To build investor, utility, and other end user confidence in the real performance and adoptability of the
  proposed solutions.

• $100M in total funding
• Approximately 5-15 awards

• Energy storage
• Non-lithium energy storage
• Long-duration systems
• Stationary storage applications

• To extend and expand test center capabilities to contribute to the accelerated development of technologies the development of carbon management technologies.
• This funding opportunity announcement is focused on the development of
  test centers through three AOIs:
  1. AOI-1. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at an Electric
     Generating Unit
  2. AOI-2. Enabling Capital Improvements at Existing Carbon Capture Test
     Facilities
  3. AOI-3. Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at a Cement
     Manufacturing Facility

• $127.5M in total funding
• Approximately 10 awards

• Carbon management technologies
• Carbon capture, removal, and conversion test centers
• Electric generating unit (EGU)
• Cement
  manufacturing facility

• To provide funding to eligible state governments noncompetitively, by formula to make awards to small and medium
  manufacturers to perform conversion projects to produce electric vehicles in
  accordance with Section 50143 of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
• To make funds available to eligible small and medium manufacturers to
  accelerate the growth of domestic production capabilities for electric
  vehicles and components.
• To facilitate the conversion of internal combustion engine manufacturing to electric vehicle manufacturing.

• ALRD
• Small and medium
  manufacturers
• Electric vehicles
• Domestic production
• Internal combustion engine conversion manufacturing

• To provide funding to connect technology companies, jurisdictions, and manufacturers with third-party validation (subject matter expertise and testing capabilities) to advance their technologies, businesses, or energy projects to the next level.
• Reopens five voucher opportunities (VOs) to accelerate clean energy technology adoption and launch two new VOs.
• VOs include:
  1. VO-1 Pre-Demonstration Commercialization Support (OCED)
  2. VO-2 Performance Validation, Modeling, and Certification Support (OCED)
  3. VO-3 Clean Energy Demonstration Project Siting/Permitting Support (OCED/EERE)
  4. VO-4 Commercialization Support (EERE)
  5. VO-5 Commercialization Support (FECM)
  6. VO-9 Planning and Validation of Industrial Decarbonization Projects (OCED)
  7. VO-10 Manufacturing Conversion, Retooling, and Retrofitting Support (OCED)

• Voucher opportunities (VOs)
• Clean energy technology
• Pre-demonstration commercialization
• Performance validation, modeling, and certification
• Clean energy demonstration project siting/permitting
• Commercialization
• Industrial decarbonization
• Manufacturing conversion, retooling, and retrofitting

• To advance diverse carbon management approaches that reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution.
• To support the development of technologies that capture CO2 from industrial and power generation sources or directly from the atmosphere and transport it either for permanent geologic storage or conversion into valuable products such as fuels and chemicals.
• Areas of Interest (AOIs) include:
  1. AOI-1. Carbon Conversion Technology
     1. AOI-1F. Reactive Carbon Capture Approaches for Point Source Capture or Atmospheric Capture with Integrated Conversion to Useful Products
  2. AOI-3. Point Source Carbon Capture Technology
     1. AOI-3F. Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies for Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) Power Plants
     2. AOI-3G. Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies in Portable Systems at Industrial Plants
     3. AOI-3H-a. Preliminary Front-End Engineering Design Studies (Pre-FEED) for Carbon Capture Systems at Existing (Retrofit) Domestic NGCC Power Plants
     4. AOI-3H-b. Preliminary Front-End Engineering Design Studies (Pre-FEED) for Carbon Capture Systems at Hydrogen Production Facilities Using Coal, Mixed Coal/Biomass, or Natural Gas Feedstock
  3. AOI-4. Carbon Transport and Storage
     1. AOI-4A. Enhancing CO2 Transport Infrastructure (ECO2Transport): Pre-FEED Studies for Multimodal CO2 Transfer Facilities

• $78.4M in total funding
• Approximately 36 awards

• Carbon management
• Industrial and power
• Geologic storage
• Carbon conversion
• Fuels and chemicals
• Point source carbon capture
• Atmospheric capture with integrated conversion to useful products
• Carbon capture technologies
• Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) power plants
• Front-End Engineering Design Studies (Pre-FEED)
• Hydrogen production facilities
• Coal, mixed coal/biomass, or natural gas feedstocks
• Carbon transport and storage
• CO2 transport infrastructure
• CO2 transport facilities

• To focus on adoption challenges preventing later stage commercialization, demonstration, and
  deployment of industrial decarbonization technologies.
• To solicit proposals from across the DOE national laboratory complex to:
  1. Bring together stakeholders across certain industries to address challenges that result when people work on similar industrial decarbonization strategies in isolation, with a specific focus on challenges hindering technology adoption, commercialization, and deployment.
  2. Work with organizations along the industry value chain (i.e., technology developers, feedstock
     suppliers, project developers, facility owners, financiers, product customers, and impacted
     communities) to facilitate market adoption, scale-up and replication, and building consensus
     around low-carbon products.
• Topic areas include:
  1. Collaborative Alignment on Decarbonization of Chemicals & Refining Industry
  2. Collaborative Alignment on Decarbonization of Concrete and Cement Industry
  3. Collaborative Alignment on Decarbonization of Metals Industry

• $15M in total funding
• Approximately 3 awards

• Commercialization, demonstration, and
  deployment
• Industrial decarbonization technologies
• National laboratories
• Low-carbon products
• Chemicals & refining industry
• Concrete and cement industry
• Metals Industry

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• To advance carbon dioxide removal technologies that reduce legacy carbon dioxide pollution by removing it directly from the atmosphere to counter-balance emissions from hard-to-abate sectors, such as aviation and shipping.
• To support the development and deployment of direct air capture pilot projects that have demonstrated commercial readiness.
• To provide capital to support Direct Air Capture pilots that have exceeded the technology readiness levels eligible for Pre-Commercial DAC Prizes but are not sufficiently demonstrated or commercially de-risked enough to be deployed in the Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs program.

• Carbon dioxide removal technologies
• Hard-to-abate sectors
• Direct air capture pilot projects

Pilot concepts, Pre-FEED, FEED, permitting, construction

• To seek applications for RDD&D projects to address priorities for the development of innovative battery chemistries and component
  materials, reduction of cascading battery fires, and battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing cost reduction.
• Topic Areas of Interest include:
  1. Improved 12 Volt Lead Acid Batteries for Safety-Critical Electric Vehicle Applications
  2. Develop Vehicle or Structural Level Strategies to Reduce the Likelihood of the
     Cascading Effects of Electric Vehicle Fires
  3. Battery Electrode, Cell, and Pack Manufacturing Cost Reduction
  4. Silicon-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
  5. High Energy Density Conversion Cathodes

• $42.95M in total funding
• Approximately 16-20 awards

• Innovative battery chemistries and component
  materials
• Cascading battery fires
• Battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing cost reduction
• Electric vehicles (EVs)
• Battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing
• Silicon-based anodes for lithium-Ion batteries
• High energy density conversion cathodes

• To increase private sector commercialization
  of technology developed through DOE-supported research and development (R&D), stimulating
  technological innovation in the private sector, encouraging participation by women-owned and
  minority-owned small businesses, and improving the return on investment from Federally funded
  research for economic and social benefits to the nation.
• DOE will support high-quality research
  or R&D on innovative concepts concerning important mission-related scientific or engineering
  problems and opportunities that have high potential for commercialization.
• Phase I is to evaluate, insofar as possible, the scientific or technical merit and feasibility of ideas
  that appear to have commercial potential and/or substantial application in support of DOE mission research.
• Success in a DOE Phase I is
  a prerequisite to further DOE support in Phase II.

• $24M in total funding
• Approximately 110 awards

• SBIR
• STTR
• R&D on innovative concepts

• The Critical Facility Energy Resilience (CiFER) FOA
  will support large-scale deployment of innovative storage technologies at host sites containing critical infrastructure to support demonstration of promising
  technologies and validate their ability to provide resiliency benefits.
• The objective of this FOA is to advance innovative storage technologies from early-stage R&D to widespread commercialization and demonstrate the capabilities of these technologies to support critical infrastructure or facilities that have identified resiliency needs.

• $15M in total funding
• Approximately 3 awards

• CiFER
• Innovative storage technologies
• Critical infrastructure

• To provide funding to support access to smart manufacturing technologies and high-performance
  computing (HPC) resources for small- and medium-sized manufacturers
  (SMMs).
• To provide funding to support the recycling of batteries and battery-containing devices to support the establishment of a robust domestic critical material supply chain for
  electric vehicle batteries.
• Areas of Interest (AOIs) include:
  1. State Manufacturing Leadership Program
  2. State and Local Battery Collection, Recycling, and Reprocessing
     Program

• $63M in total funding
• Approximately 20-38 awards

• Smart manufacturing technologies
• High-performance
  computing (HPC) resources
• Battery recycling
• Domestic critical material supply chain
• Recycling and reprocessing
  Program

• To solicit research to develop and demonstrate nanosensor
  technology with functionalized catalysts that have the potential to degrade selected contaminants in addition to detecting and monitoring pollutants.
• To seek proposals that
  use nanotechnology to detect, monitor, and degrade PFAS in groundwater or surface water that may be used as drinking water sources

• $1.5M in total funding
• Approximately 1 award

• Nanosensor technology
• Detect, monitor, and degrade pollutants
• PFAS
• Groundwater, surface water

• To facilitate innovation that drives accelerated U.S. floating offshore wind deployment.
• Areas of Interest (AOIs) include:
  1. Topic Area 1,
     Subtopic 1a:
     Refinement and Innovation in
     Floating Platform Design,
     Manufacturing, and
     Deployment
  2. Topic Area 1,
     Subtopic 1b: Next-Generation Integrated
     Floating Turbine/Platform
     Technologies
  3. Topic Area 2: Innovation for Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Foundation
     Types and Supporting
     Infrastructure
  4. Topic Area 3: Technology Advancement to
     Inform Risk to Birds and Bats from Offshore Wind Energy
  5. Topic Area 4: Development of a Manufacturing and Supply
     Chain Offshore Wind
     Consortium Based in the Great Lakes Region
  6. Topic Area 5: Floating Offshore Wind
     Center of Excellence
  7. Topic Area 6 Protecting Future Offshore Wind Farms Against Lightning

• $48.6M in total funding
• Approximately 12-21 awards

• Offshore wind
• Floating offshore wind platform
• Fixed-bottom offshore wind
• Domestic manufacturing and supply chain assets

• To address major new loads from transportation,
  industry, and buildings on the electric grid by providing new tools for users, planners, and operators of the electric grid.
• This FOA has two major topical areas:
  1. Connected Communities 2.0, focused on technical measures at the grid edge in buildings, industry, and transportation to prepare the
     electric grid for these new loads, and improve the resilience of customers
     and the grid; and
  2. Smart Charge Management (SCM), focused on various unique urban,
     suburban, and rural use cases to build confidence in SCM as an effective
     approach for electric vehicles (EVs) to provide flexibility and value to the
     electric grid.
• To validate
  technology in real world situations and share outcomes in ways that will enable
  these practices to be replicated by other jurisdictions and to inform technical
  assistance and stakeholder engagement.
• To enable electric system planners and operators, strategic planners, regulators such as Public Utility Commissions (PUCs), and other stakeholders to understand and plan
  for new load growth and peak loads driven by electrification, growth in
  manufacturing, and new computing developments; and to plan for physical and
  cyber threats to reliability and resilience, while keeping costs affordable for
  customers and ratepayers.
• To support research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) at the grid
  edge – the portion of the electric grid between the feeder and the plug – to evaluate how to right size future electricity infrastructure using various technical measures, which can also improve customer benefits and grid resilience.

• $65M in total funding
• Approximately 8-20 awards

• Electric loads
• Transportation,
  industry, and buildings
• Electric grid
• Grid edge
• Smart Charge Management (SCM)Electric vehicles (EVs)
• Public Utility Commissions (PUCs)

• To seek applications to address the development of smart manufacturing
  technologies –including through “smart RD&D” – that can contribute to a
  resilient, responsive, leading-edge, and efficient manufacturing sector that delivers the technologies needed for the nation’s clean energy transition.
• To implement
  smart manufacturing across several diverse application areas and market sectors
  to:
  1. Show the benefits of incorporating smart manufacturing in areas aligned
     with the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office’s (AMMTO) mission; and
  2. To provide practical experience which will be used to further refine AMMTO’s smart manufacturing strategy and future R&D direction.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy
  2. Smart Manufacturing of Tooling and Equipment for Sustainable Transportation
  3. Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials
  4. Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive U.S. Mining

• $33.7M in total funding
• Approximately 16-36 awards

• Smart manufacturing
  technologies
• Smart RD&D
• Manufacturing sector
• Circular economy
• Tooling and equipment for sustainable transportation
• High performance materials
• Mining

• To support the research and development of technologies that enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel (UNF) to alleviate the impact of storage in permanent disposal facilities.
• To fund the development of novel technologies that increase the overall capacity factor, power
  output, and efficiency of particle generation systems (including but not limited to proton,
  neutron, and/or photon), by reducing beam trip magnitude and duration (referred to as loss of
  beam).
• To focus on increasing the throughput of transmutation by
  developing target materials that maximize transmutation rates and are easily processible to
  remove the transmuted material.
• Technical Categories of Interest include:
  1. Category A – Improved Efficiency and Reliability of Particle Generation and Acceleration
  2. Category B – Transmutation Targets
  3. Category C – Capability Teams

• $40M in total funding
• Approximately 6-12 awards
• Funds and awards subject to the availability of appropriated funds to
  be shared between FOAs DE-FOA-0003418 and DE-FOA-0003419

• Used nuclear fuel (UNF)
• Permanent disposal facilities
• Capacity factor, power output, and efficiency of particle generation systems
• Transmutation
• Particle generation and acceleration

• To support the research and development of technologies that enable the transmutation of used nuclear fuel (UNF) to alleviate the impact of storage in permanent disposal facilities.
• To fund the development of novel technologies that increase the overall capacity factor, power
  output, and efficiency of particle generation systems (including but not limited to proton,
  neutron, and/or photon), by reducing beam trip magnitude and duration (referred to as loss of
  beam).
• To focus on increasing the throughput of transmutation by
  developing target materials that maximize transmutation rates and are easily processible to
  remove the transmuted material.
• Technical Categories of Interest include:
  1. Category A – Improved Efficiency and Reliability of Particle Generation and Acceleration
  2. Category B – Transmutation Targets
  3. Category C – Capability Teams

• $40M in total funding
• Approximately 6-12 awards
• Funds and awards subject to the availability of appropriated funds to
  be shared between FOAs DE-FOA-0003418 and DE-FOA-0003419

• Used nuclear fuel (UNF)
• Permanent disposal facilities
• Capacity factor, power output, and efficiency of particle generation systems
• Transmutation
• Particle generation and acceleration

• The Technologies to Emend and Obviate SYnthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions (TEOSYNTE)
  program aims to lower nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the cultivation of corn and sorghum used for United States ethanol production by 50%.
• To emphasize plant and microbial bio-design strategies that lower the application of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer on corn and sorghum fields while maintaining crop yields and reducing 50% of N2O emissions.
• To
  transform agriculture and lower the N2O contribution to the carbon intensity (CI) of ethanol
  produced today for light duty vehicles and in the future for sustainable aviation fuel.

• $36M in total funding
• Approximately 7-9 awards
• Funds and awards subject to
  the availability of appropriated funds to
  be shared between FOAs DE-FOA-0003405 and DE-FOA-0003408

• Technologies to Emend and Obviate SYnthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions (TEOSYNTE)
• Nitrous oxide (N2O)
• Corn and sorghum
• Ethanol
• Biofuel
• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

• The Technologies to Emend and Obviate SYnthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions (TEOSYNTE)
  program aims to lower nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the cultivation of corn and sorghum used for United States ethanol production by 50%.
• To emphasize plant and microbial bio-design strategies that lower the application of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizer on corn and sorghum fields while maintaining crop yields and reducing 50% of N2O emissions.
• To
  transform agriculture and lower the N2O contribution to the carbon intensity (CI) of ethanol
  produced today for light duty vehicles and in the future for sustainable aviation fuel.

• $36M in total funding
• Approximately 7-9 awards
• Funds and awards subject to
  the availability of appropriated funds to
  be shared between FOAs DE-FOA-0003405 and DE-FOA-0003408

• Technologies to Emend and Obviate SYnthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions (TEOSYNTE)
• Nitrous oxide (N2O)
• Corn and sorghum
• Ethanol
• Biofuel
• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

• To support the development of sustainable feedstocks and conversion technologies necessary to produce crucial fuels,
  materials, and carbon-based products that are better for the environment than current petroleum-derived components.
• to address carbon conversion challenges across
  two areas: engineering-scale electrochemical conversion with a focus on
  system durability and feasibility studies for refinery and petrochemical facility
  retrofits.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Engineering-Scale Testing of Electrochemical Systems for the
     Conversion CO2 into Value-Added Products
  2. Feasibility Studies for Retrofitting of Refineries and
     Petrochemical Facilities for Carbon Conversion

• $16M in total funding
• Approximately 0-6 awards

• Clean Fuels & Products Shot
• Sustainable feedstocks
• Conversion technologies
• Carbon-based products
• Electrochemical conversion
• Retrofitting petroleum refineries and petrochemical facilities
• Carbon conversion

• To support business creation,
  entrepreneurship, and regional innovation for water power systems and
  solutions.
• To seek applications for new and/or expanded water power incubation or
  accelerator programs to address the incubation, acceleration, and
  commercialization needs of entrepreneurs and small businesses in marine energy and/or hydropower.
• This FOA includes one topic area:
  Topic Area 1: Water Power Incubation and Acceleration

• $4.8M in total funding
• Approximately 12 awards

• Water power
• Water power incubation and acceleration
• Marine energy
• Hydropower

• To support Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) pilot projects that
  collectively demonstrate EGS in different geologic settings, using a variety of development techniques and well orientations, at sites where subsurface
  characterization or geothermal energy integration analysis has been conducted.
• The remaining topic area is Topic Area 4: Eastern-US EGS Demonstrations

• $14.2M in total funding
• Approximately 1 award

• Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS)
• Pilot projects
• Geothermal energy

• To make funds available to a variety of entities for the purpose of mitigating methane emissions from marginal conventional wells (MCWs) and other oil and natural gas assets; accelerating the commercialization,
  scale-up and application of innovative methane emissions reduction
  technologies; and advancing the characterization and reduction of methane
  emissions through multi-scale, measurement-informed data collection and
  analysis.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Methane Emissions Reduction from Existing Wells
     and Infrastructure
     1. Reducing Methane Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells
     2. Reducing Methane Emissions from Small Operators’ Wells and Other Oil and Natural Gas Assets
     3. Reducing Methane Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells
        and Oil and Gas Assets on Tribal Lands
  2. Accelerating Deployment of Methane Emissions
     Reduction Solutions
     1. Field Deployment of Engine and Compressor Methane Reduction
        Technologies
     2. Field Deployment of Gas Flaring Reduction Technologies
     3. Field Deployment of Emissions Reduction Technologies at Oil and Gas Production Facilities
  3. Accelerating Deployment of Methane Emissions
     Monitoring Solutions
     1. Improving Access to Monitoring Data for Impacted Communities
     2. Regional Methane Emissions Characterization

• $850M in total funding
• Approximately 8-38 awards

• Methane emissions
• Marginal conventional wells (MCWs)
• Oil and natural gas assets
• Methane emissions reduction
  technologies
• Oil and natural gas infrastructure
• Flares
• Gas flaring reduction technologies
• Methane emissions
  monitoring solutions
• Regional methane emissions characterization

• To catalyze regional
  grid modeling studies that quantify the potential contribution of geothermal
  power in supporting an equitable
  transition to a future decarbonized grid and
  economy.
• To quantify the value of geothermal power to a decarbonized grid.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Value of Geothermal Power

• $7M in total funding
• Approximately 1-14 awards

• Geothermal
  power
• Energy grid

• To support the DOE decarbonization goals by advancing innovative solar
  hardware, software, and manufacturing processes across a broad range of
  technology readiness levels, from laboratory-scale to pilot-scale testing and
  prototype demonstration.
• To de-risk new solar hardware components,
  manufacturing processes, or software products across a wide range of solar
  technology areas.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Solar Research and Technology Development
  2. Solar Technology Demonstration
  3. Solar Permitting
     Software Outreach,
     Education, and
     Development

• $38M in total funding
• Approximately 11-23 awards

• Solar
  hardware, software, and manufacturing processes
• PV technologies
• Power electronics
• Grid integration technologies
• Multiport systems
• Structural or electrical balance of system (BOS) hardware
• Manufacturing process technologies
• CSP systems
• Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) collectors
• Software products
• Dual-use PV applications

• To fund RD&D
  projects to improve power systems simulation software tools and demonstrate
  new business models for distribution systems operations to integrate and optimize the value of inverter-based resources (IBRs) and distributed energy resources (DERs), including solar, wind, energy storage, and other technologies
  such as buildings and electric vehicles (EVs).
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Robust Experimentation and Advanced Learning for DSOs
  2. Improved Simulation Tools for Large-Scale IBR Transient and Dynamic
     Studies

• $31M in total funding
• Approximately 12-15 awards

• Solar
• Inverter-based resources (IBRs)
• Distributed energy resources (DERs)

• To challenge the research community to develop
  groundbreaking technologies to enable a future energy landscape that is dramatically different.
• The Vision includes three goals that are critical to achieve a sustainable energy and carbon
  transition with:
  1. GHG-free abundant primary energy
     1. Rapid deployment
     2. Transformative Advances
  2. An intermodal energy superhighway that transports diversified forms of primary energy
     1. Novel and Efficient Energy Transport Systems
     2. Energy Delivery Optimization Through Intelligent Systems
  3. A carbon transition that sustainably meets demand for polymers and other materials
     1. Living Refineries
     2. Refinery Transformation
     3. Carbon Allotrope Manufacture and Utilization
     4. Scalable Polymer Design and Deconstruction

• GHG-free primary energy
• Intermodal energy superhighway
• Energy transport systems
• Polymers and other materials
• Living refineries
• Refinery transformation
• Carbon Allotrope manufacture and utilization
• Scalable polymers

• To seek applications from U.S. universities, national laboratories, and industry to conduct nuclear energy-related research to help meet the objectives of the major NE funded research
  areas:
  1. U.S. University-led R&D Projects and NSUF Access with R&D (NSUF-1) Projects
  2. U.S. University-led Integrated Research Projects (IRPs)U.S. University-, National Laboratory-, or Industry-led Nuclear Science User
     Facilities (NSUF) Access Only (NSUF-2) Projects

• $76M in total funding
• Approximately 100 awards

• Nuclear energy
• Nuclear reactors
• Nuclear energy
• Nuclear fuel

• To fund innovative solar
  photovoltaics (PV) R&D that reduces the cost of PV modules, reduces carbon and energy intensity of PV manufacturing processes, and optimizes PV technology for
  new, specialized markets.
• To fund R&D on innovative cell- and minimodule-level technologies.
• To fund innovative R&D projects that aim to advance the state of the art in various cell and module technologies to accomplish these goals of cost
  reduction, lower carbon intensity, and viability of dual-use markets.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Photovoltaic Advances in Cell Efficiency, Reliability, and Supply Chain
     (PACERS)
  2. Building Academic Capabilities in Cadmium Telluride

• $20M in total funding
• Approximately 8-15 awards

• Solar
  photovoltaics (PV)Cell- and minimodule-level technologies
• Photovoltaic Advances in Cell Efficiency, Reliability, and Supply Chain
  (PACERS)
• Solar

• To support enabling the necessary CO2 transport infrastructure that can allow for further demonstration, maturation, and
  validation of CCS and CDR technologies at commercial-scale.
• To pay a portion of the cost
  differential, with respect to any projected future increase in demand for carbon
  dioxide transportation by an infrastructure project between the cost of
  constructing the infrastructure based on capacity for an existing project and the cost of constructing the infrastructure with a larger capacity
  to support future use by projected projects.
• To award projects that have a reasonable prospect of increased future growth in the demand for transportation of CO2, but that lack the
  contractual commitments to secure capital to deploy such infrastructure.

• $500M in total funding
• Approximately 5-10 awards

• CO2 transport infrastructure
• CCS and CDR technologies
• Carbon dioxide
• Carbon capture and storage
• Carbon dioxide removal

• To aid communities with
  resource and energy recovery strategies associated with their organic waste
  streams.
• To identify beneficial end uses for the waste
  streams that cannot be recycled or reused. This includes renewable natural gas (RNG), hydrogen, liquid fuels, and polymers/chemicals.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Feasibility Study
     Development
  2. Design work and Experimental Validation

• $7.5M in total funding
• Approximately 1-15 awards

• Organic waste
  streams.
• Renewable natural gas (RNG)
• Hydrogen
• Liquid fuels
• Polymers/chemicals

• To fund innovative approaches to expanding EV
  adoption and charging access, particularly at the local level in urbanized areas where land use, density, car ownership rates, grid considerations, and other
  factors create unique needs and considerations for electrifying the
  transportation network where the demand for transportation access is at its highest density.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Solving for No-Home Charging: Expanding Charging
     Access for Privately Owned E-Mobility
  2. Expanding E-Mobility Solutions through Electrified
     Micro, Light and Medium-Duty Fleets
  3. Managed Charging for Clean Reliable Energy

• $54M in total funding
• Approximately 14-41 awards

• Electric vehicles (EVs)
• EV charging

• Seeks projects to address R&D challenges in utilizing algae to produce biofuels and bioproducts.
• To address gaps in conversion technology approaches for various algal and wet waste feedstocks to increase their utilization
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Conversion of Seaweeds to Low-Carbon Fuels and Bioproducts
  2. Conversion of Algal Biomass for Low-Carbon Agricultural Bioproducts

• $18.8M in total funding
• Approximately 8-11 awards

• • Algae, seaweed
  • Biofuels
  • Bioproducts
  • Wet waste feedstocks
  • Low-carbon fuels
  • Agricultural products

• To seek applications proposing community-engaged research in underserved communities to advance the use of air pollution data and
  communication of air quality information for empowering local decisions and actions that address community-identified air pollution concerns.
• To solicit research projects that involve substantial engagement with communities, community-based organizations, and/or Tribes to address both of the following priorities:
  1. Methods and tools for data integration and analysis to characterize community
     exposures to air pollution in underserved communities.
  2. Effective communication of air quality information to communities and decision
     makers to support actions to address air pollution concerns in underserved
     communities.

• $10M in total funding
• Approximately 8 awards

• Air pollution data
• Community
  exposures to air pollution in underserved communities

• To help decarbonize the energy system and high-temperature industrial processes
  in the United States through innovation and advancement in CSP technologies,
  including solar collectors, supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles, and
  high-temperature solar receivers and reactors.
• Topic Areas include:
  1. Scalable Concentrating Solar Collectors
  2. Scalable Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2)
     Turbomachinery
  3. Scalable Concentrating Solar-Thermal Receivers and Reactors

• $30M in total funding
• Approximately 8-16 awards

• Solar

CSP technologies

• Solar collectors
• Supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles
• High-temperature solar receivers and reactors

• To expand the work of the CORE-CM Initiative basinal assessment and development of critical mineral supply chains from unconventional and secondary feedstocks.
• To expand the focus from the basin scale to a larger,
  regional scale with the goal of nationwide coverage.

• $60M in total funding
• Approximately 8 awards

• Critical minerals
• Secondary feedstocks

• To advance transportation sector
  decarbonization by driving the
  innovation and deploying clean transportation technologies.
• To seek research projects to
  address priorities in the following areas:
  1. Increase the energy density of battery cells containing phosphate-based cathodes
  2. Development of innovative
     technologies capable of significantly decreasing greenhouse gases
  3. Production and manufacturing of new high-performance E–steels using domestic
     resources
  4. Advancement of state-of-the-art Na-ion batteries
  5. Improvement of efficiency and convenience of the mobility-system using V2X
  6. Development of planning tools and/or models to identify, quantify, and
     assess the impact of convenience strategies on regions and/or communities;
  7. Addressing vulnerabilities and potential cybersecurity threats posed by the
     nature of EVs and charging infrastructure integrated with the grid
  8. Improve
     fuel economy and reduce GHG emissions with the goals of carbon pollution free
     electricity by 2035 and net-zero of GHG emissions by 2050.
• Areas of Interest include:
  1. Next Generation Phosphate-Based Cathodes
  2. Na-ion Battery Seedling Projects for Electric Vehicle Applications
  3. Low GHG Concepts for Off-Road Vehicles
  4. Saving Energy with Connectivity
  5. Domestically Produced E-Steels
  6. Cybersecurity for Smart and Secure Electric Vehicle Charging

• $49.8M in total funding
• Approximately 17-28 awards

• Clean transportation technologies

Phosphate-based cathodes

• Na-ion battery seedling
• Off-road vehicles
• Connectivity
• E-steel
• Cybersecurity

• To solicit proposals for projects to expedite future
  interconnections of wind, solar, and battery energy storage systems into the transmission system while preserving data security and system reliability.
• Awardees under this funding opportunity will develop tools and methods that provide
  necessary information to grid stakeholders.,
• Topic areas include:
  1. Topic Area 1: Improved Efficiency of Electromagnetic Transient Simulations for Interconnection Studies of Inverter based Resources
  2. Dynamic Stability-Enhanced Network Assessment
     Tools

• $10M in total funding
• Approximately 2-10 awards

• Solar
• Wind
• Interconnection
• Transmission
• Battery energy

• To reimburse or provide incentives to eligible recipients for the use, in projects, of construction materials and products that have substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions associated with all relevant stages of production, use, and disposal as compared to estimated industry averages of similar materials or products.
• To fund low carbon materials that create less pollution by reducing the levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions, including concrete (and cement), glass, asphalt mix, and steel.
• The program also will help transportation agencies:
  1. Develop specifications for collecting documentation of a materials embodied greenhouse gas emissions
  2. Develop or update technical specifications to allow for use of materials, products, and strategies that result in lower embodied carbon materials
  3. Establish a process to identify, verify, and use materials with lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions

• Low-carbon construction materials and products
• Concrete, cement, glass, asphalt mix, and steel.
• Embodied greenhouse gas emissions

• To establish the viability and competitiveness of domestically manufactured low-carbon products.
• To provide funding in support of projects by small- and medium-sized
  manufacturing firms (SMMs) for:
  1. AOI 1: Clean Energy Manufacturing and Recycling.
     1. The objective of this AOI is to increase domestic manufacturing and recycling capacity
        for materials, components, and systems needed for the clean energy transition.
  2. AOI 2: Industrial Decarbonization
     1. The overall objectives for this AOI is to reduce
        Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S manufacturing sector through substantial reductions in existing facilities and new
        builds that result in low carbon materials.
        1. Subtopic AOI 2a: Re-equip an existing industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to substantially10 reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of
           that facility.
        2. Subtopic AOI 2b: Establish new, or re-equip or expand, an existing
           manufacturing or recycling facility that produces materials that result in
           substantially lower carbon intensity compared to an appropriate industry
           benchmark and are not derived from a primary feedstock of palm fatty acid
           distillates or fossil fuels including coal, natural gas, and petroleum.

• $425M in total funding
• Approximately 5-25 awards

• Low-carbon products
• Small- and medium-sized
  manufacturing firms (SMMs)
• Clean energy manufacturing and recycling
• Industrial decarbonization

• To implement municipally- or Tribal-led high-impact clean
  energy projects in disadvantaged communities, energy communities, small- and medium-sized
  jurisdictions, and Tribal communities.
• Program goals include:
  1. Deliver direct local community benefits of clean energy, such as reduced energy costs
     and improved air quality, through implementation of community-led energy projects or
     programs.
  2. Spark additional investments in communities that create long-term local economic
     development opportunities and support community revitalization.
  3. Advance community-identified energy priorities and right to self-determination.
  4. Build capacity and partnerships in local governments and Tribes.

• $18M in total funding
• Approximately 5-20 awards

• High-impact clean energy projects
• Community benefits
• Local governments
• Tribes

• To maximize the
  deployment of clean energy solutions for the benefit of American Indian and Alaska Native
  communities and to help build the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to implement those clean energy solutions
• Through grants, the DOE Office of Indian Energy intends to provide financial support to:
  1. Install clean energy generating system(s) and/or energy efficiency measure(s) for Tribal
     Building(s) (Topic Area 1)
  2. Deploy community-scale clean energy generating system(s) or community energy storage
     on Tribal Lands (Topic Area 2)
  3. Install integrated energy system(s) for autonomous operation (independent of the
     traditional centralized electric power grid) to power a single or multiple Essential Tribal Building(s) during emergency situations or for tribal community resilience (Topic Area 3)
  4. Provide electric power to Tribal Building(s), which otherwise would be unelectrified (Topic
     Area 4)

• $25M in total funding
• Approximately 5-10 awards

• Tribal Lands
• Indian tribal energy development
• Indian tribal energy costs
• Indian tribal energy and economic infrastructure
• Clean energy generating systems
• Community energy storage
• Integrated energy systems

• To perform the research and development (R&D)
  required to meet the DOE objectives stated in the topic and subtopic of the Phase I FOA.
• This FOA is supplemental to the FY 2023 SBIR/STTR Phase I Release 2 FOA

• $125M in total funding
• Approximately 105 awards

• SBIR
• STTR

• To support
  EPA’s RFS program and is different in allowable feedstocks and allowable primary
  fuels, among other things, compared to other recent BETO FOAs.
• To support the Biden Administration’s
  action items to produce 3 billion gallons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) per
  year and reduce aviation emissions by 20% by 2030 towards unlocking the
  potential for a fully zero-carbon aviation sector by 2050.
• To support high-impact technology R&D to accelerate the
  bioeconomy.
• To reduce risks in
  processing or co-processing biointermediates in legacy refinery infrastructure.
• Topic areas include:
  1. Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of
     Integrated
     Biorefinery
     Technologies
  2. Biointermediate
     Processing Toolbox

• $9.4M in total funding
• Approximately 3-5 awards

• Primary
  fuels
• Advanced biofuels
• Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
• Bioeconomy
• Biointermediates
• Legacy refinery infrastructure
• Pre-pilot scale-up
• Integrated
  biorefinery technologies
• Biointermediate processing toolbox

• To enable Applicants to provide technical assistance to Agricultural Producers and Rural Small Businesses applying to REAP, with priority for applications assisting at least two or more of the following types of REAP Applicants
  1. Agricultural Producers
  2. REAP applicants pursuing projects located in disadvantaged or distressed communities
  3. Tribal entities
  4. REAP Applicants pursuing projects using Underutilized Technologies
  5. REAP Applicants pursuing projects under $20,000

• $16M in total funding
• Approximately 32-64 awards

• REAP
• Agricultural producers

• To stimulate
  innovative designs, prototypes, and field demonstration exercises for advanced distribution and/or power transformers (e.g., flexible, modular, scalable, hybrid, and
  solid-state transformers) that can be readily utilized across a range of distribution to
  transmission scale applications.
• There are two Areas of Interest (AOI):
  1. RD&D for Distribution
     Transformers
  2. RD&D for Power Transformers

• $18M in total funding
• Approximately 5-9 awards

• Advanced distribution
• Power transformers
• Flexible, modular, scalable, hybrid, and
  solid-state transformers
• Transmission
• Distribution
  transformers
• Power transformers

• To fund projects across the country that advance deployment of efficient and sustainable transportation technologies.
• To advance
  decarbonization of the transportation sector by funding innovative approaches
  to address pressing transportation efficiency and equity needs.
• To address outreach, education, technical assistance,
  workforce training, and other innovative demonstration or deployment projects
  that advance the mission of an affordable, equitable, and decarbonized
  transportation system.
• Topic areas of interest include:
  1. Clean Cities Outreach, Engagement, and Technical
     Assistance
  2. Training on Zero Emission Vehicle and Infrastructure
     Technologies for Critical Emergency Response Workers
  3. Clean Transportation Demonstration and Deployment

• $15M in total funding
• Approximately 12-18 awards

• Transportation technologies.
• Transportation decarbonization
• Workforce training
• Demonstration or deployment projects
• Affordable, equitable, and decarbonized
  transportation system

• To expand the current DOE’s portfolio of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies (e.g., biomass carbon removal and storage, enhanced mineralization, ocean-based CDR, DAC, etc.) to advance technologies that will ultimately achieve
  the Carbon Negative Shot (CNS) target of under $100/net tonne CO2e removed (i.e., both capture and storage), by 2032.
• To support achievement of CNS objectives across CDR pathways through support for integrated pilot-scale testing of advanced CDR technologies in
  relevant environments.
• Applications are solicited in the following subtopics:
  1. AOI-1. Small Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS) Pilots
  2. AOI-2. Small Mineralization Pilots
  3. AOI-3. Multi-Pathways CDR Testbed Facilities
  4. AOI-4 is anticipated to be issued under future amendments to the FOA

• $100M in total funding
• Approximately 20 awards

• Carbon dioxide removal
• CDR
• Biomass carbon removal and storage
• BiCRS
• Enhanced mineralization
• Ocean-based CDR
• DAC
• Carbon Negative Shot
• CNS
• Testbed facilities

• To fund RD&D focused on demonstrating purpose-grown energy crop systems, including algae, at pre-commercial scales.
  1. For purpose of this FOA, “purpose-grown energy crops” are defined as crops grown solely for renewable bioenergy production.
• The FOA contains only one Topic Area – Topic Area 1: Purpose-Grown Energy Crops – with the objective to fund projects that will enable the mobilization of low carbon intensity, purpose-grown energy crops across varied agronomic and geographic landscapes through the generation of data and research findings.
• Subtopic Areas include:
  1. Subtopic Area 1a: Algae
  2. Subtopic Area 1b: Herbaceous Energy Crops
  3. Subtopic Area 1c: Intermediate Energy Crops
  4. Subtopic Area 1d: Short-Rotation Woody Crops

• $27M-$29M in total funding
• Approximately 2-5 awards

• Renewable Carbon Resources (RCR)
• Conversion-ready feedstocks
• Biofuels
• Bioproducts
• Purpose-grown energy crops
• Algae
• Herbaceous Energy Crops
• Intermediate Energy Crops
• Short-Rotation Woody Crops

• To successfully translate the above definition
  of a circular economy to the domestic EV battery supply chain by supporting the development
  of innovative solutions that can overcome both the technological and economic barriers to
  broad commercial adoption.
• To
  catalyze the creation of a circular EV battery supply chain in North America.
• Support the development and deployment of foundational technologies capable of maintaining
  materials and products in circulation at their highest level of performance and safety for as long
  as possible.
• The program is intentionally structured into four technology development categories
  designed to converge towards the creation of a domestic circular supply chain for EV batteries:
  1. Category A seeks innovations in battery cell materials,
     designs, regeneration methods, and corresponding manufacturing techniques to prolong
     battery service life including
  2. Category B seeks innovations in battery pack designs, materials, and reversible manufacturing
     methods as well as fast and safe disassembly techniques to recover manufacturing value of cells and pack components
  3. Category C seeks innovations in cell-level sensing, data analytics, and battery intelligence
     systems for circularity and safety
  4. Category D seeks to develop analytical tools capable of quantifying the impact of the program’s
     advancements to both justify the adoption of these technologies and inform new business
     models and opportunities. ARPA-E anticipates supporting one or two teams in this category to
     develop the technoeconomic, lifecycle, and circularity analysis tools and metrics.

• $30M in total funding
• Approximately 10-15 awards

• EV battery
• Supply chain
• Circular EV battery supply chain
• Battery cell materials
• Battery cell manufacturing
• Cell-level sensing
• Battery intelligence systems
• Technoeconomic, lifecycle, and circularity analysis tools

• This funding opportunity comprises two topic areas with separate objectives and technical focus:
  1. Topic Area 1 – High Temperature Tools for Well Integrity Evaluation
     1. Seeks to address the availability of downhole cement and casing evaluation tools for use in high
        temperature and hostile geothermal wellbores.
     2. Seeks applications to address wellbore tools and technology to supplement and advance beyond currently available off-the-shelf (OTS) solutions provided by the oil and gas industry for cement and casing evaluation.
  2. Topic Area 2 – Utilization of Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage Technology and
     Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources as part of an Industrial Process
     1. To demonstrate low-temperature
        (<130◦ C) reservoir thermal energy storage (RTES) technology utilization as part of an industrial process.

• $31M in total funding
• Approximately 2-11 awards

• Reservoir thermal energy storage (RTES) technology
• High-temperature tools
• Low-temperature geothermal resources
• Well integrity evaluation
• Downhole cement and casing evaluation tools
• Geothermal wellbores
• Off-the-shelf (OTS) solutions
• Oil and gas industries
• Industrial processes

• Seeks applications to address advanced platform manufacturing
  technologies that enable improved performance, manufacturability, scalability,
  reproducibility, and circularity of batteries.
• Aims to support the development of manufacturing
  platform technologies that can be utilized to scale up domestic battery manufacturing and accelerate the commercialization of transformative new
  technologies.
• DOE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) intends to fund high impact manufacturing R&D projects through this FOA, including through topics:
  1. Topic Area 1: Platforms for Next Generation Battery Manufacturing
     1. Subtopic 1.1: Processes and Machines for Sodium-Ion Batteries
     2. Subtopic 1.2: Processes and Design for Manufacturability of Flow Batteries
     3. Subtopic 1.3: Scalable Manufacturing of Nanolayered Films for Energy Storage
  2. Topic Area 2: Smart Manufacturing Platforms for Battery
     Production

• $15.7M in total funding
• Approximately 5-13 awards

• Advanced platform battery manufacturing
• Domestic battery manufacturing
• Sodium-ion batteries
• Flow batteries
• Nanolayered films

• The FOA focuses on applied R&D and pilot demonstrations for the highest GHG-emitting subsectors, specifically chemicals and fuels; iron and steel; food and
  beverage; cement and concrete, asphalt pavements, and glass; and forest
  products.
• The FOA will fund
  research, development, and prototype or pilot-scale technology validation and
  demonstration activities that will accelerate the development and adoption of
  sustainable technologies that increase efficiency and eliminate industrial GHG
  emissions for the most energy- and emissions- intensive industrial subsectors.
• Topic Areas and Areas of Interest include:
  1. Topic Area 1: Decarbonizing Chemicals & Fuels
     1. Area of Interest 1 – Advanced Process Technologies to Convert Sustainable
        Feedstocks to Hydrocarbon Chemicals & Fuels
     2. Area of Interest 2 – Advanced Processes for Production of Non-hydrocarbon
        Products
     3. Area of Interest 3 – Chemicals Value Chain Decarbonization
  2. Topic Area 2: Decarbonizing Iron and Steel
     1. Area of Interest 1—Alternative Iron Making
     2. Area of Interest 2 – Ore improvement
     3. Area of Interest 3—Improving steel recyclability through reducing tramp metal
        contaminants
     4. Area of Interest 4—Low-carbon steelmaking
  3. Topic Area 3: Decarbonizing Food and Beverage Products
     1. Area of Interest 1 – Innovations in Food Packaging
     2. Area of Interest 2 – Innovations in Commercial Food Service
     3. Area of Interest 3 – Decarbonization of Alternative Protein Production
     4. Area of Interest 4 – Energy Input Redistribution in Food and Beverage Processing
     5. Area of Interest 5 – Reduction of Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions during
        Post-Harvesting Activities
  4. Topic Area 4: Decarbonizing Building and Infrastructure Materials –
     Cement and Concrete, Asphalt, and Glass
     1. Area of Interest 1 – Novel cement formulations in combination with alternative
        Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs)
     2. Area of Interest 2 – Novel Lime/Portland Cement Production Processes
     3. Area of interest 3 – Low-Carbon Asphalt pavement
     4. Areas of Interest 4 – Glass Decarbonization
  5. Topic Area 5: Decarbonizing Forest Products
     1. Area of Interest 1 – Novel Dewatering and Drying Technologies
     2. Area of Interest 2 – Innovative Fiber Preparation, Pulping, and Chemical Recovery
        Processes
  6. Topic Area 6: Innovative Industrial Pre-FEED Studies
     1. Area of Interest 1 – Integration of Clean Hydrogen in the Industrial Sector
     2. Area of Interest 2 – Carbon Capture for the Industrial Sector
     3. Area of Interest 3 – Integrated Process Pre-FEED

• $83.1M in total funding
• Approximately 25-49 awards

• Industrial sectors
• Chemicals and fuels
• Iron and steel
• Food and beverage products
• Cement and concrete
• Asphalt pavements
• Glass
• Forest products
• Industrial pre-FEED studies
• Hydrocarbon chemicals and fuels
• Ethanol, methanol
• Industrial waste products, biomass, recovered plastics, renewable natural gas
• Non-hydrocarbon chemical products
• Inorganic chemicals, industrial gases, nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers
• Chemicals value chain
• Thermplastic products
• Hydrogen, plasma hydrogen, electrolysis, sodium, green ammonia
• Direct reduced iron
• Steel recyclability
• Reactive gas evaporation, mechanical separation, preferential melting, solvent extraction, matte extraction, electrolytic extraction, leaching, density separations, embrittlement
• Energy- and emissions-intensive cooking equipment
• Alternative protein production
• Energy input redistribution
• Post-harvesting activities
• Novel cement formulations
• Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs)
• Novel lime and portland cement production
• Asphalt pavement
• Novel dewatering and drying technologies
• Energy capture
• Novel sensing technologies
• Innovative fiber preparation, pulping, and chemical recovery processes
• Clean hydrogen
• Ammonia, methanol, iron reduction, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
• Carbon capture
• Pre-FEED studies

• Solicits new and renewal applications for Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) that will perform fundamental discovery science while also addressing the Priority Research Directions (PRDs) and Priority Research Opportunities (PROs).
• Solicits renewal applications for EFRCs that will perform basic science to address the
  PRDs/PROs identified in one or more of the following reports:
  1. Basic Research Needs for Transformative Manufacturing
  2. Roundtable on Opportunities for Basic Research for Next-Generation Quantum Systems
  3. Basic Research Needs for Environmental Management
• This FOA solicits new applications for EFRCs that will perform basic science to address the
  following two topics:
  1. Co-design of materials and processes to revolutionize microelectronics and/or QIS
     fabrication
  2. Environmental Management

• $100M in total funding
• Approximately 25-50 awards

• Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)
• Priority Research Directions (PRDs)
• Priority Research Opportunities (PROs)
• Transformative manufacturing
• Next-generation quantum systems
• Microelectronics
• QIS
  fabrication

• The objectives of the SBIR/STTR programs include increasing private sector commercialization
  of technology developed through DOE-supported research and development (R&D), stimulating
  technological innovation in the private sector, encouraging participation by women-owned and
  minority-owned small businesses, and improving the return on investment from Federally funded
  research for economic and social benefits to the nation.
• DOE will support high-quality research
  or R&D on innovative concepts concerning important mission-related scientific or engineering
  problems and opportunities that have high potential for commercialization.
• Topics include:
  1. Energy Systems Cybersecurity
  2. Quantum Sensors for Underground Nuclear Explosion Monitoring
  3. Radiation Resistant Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits
  4. Artificial Intelligence
  5. Autonomous Radiation Sensing and Mapping
  6. High-Energy X-Ray Sources for Field Radiography
  7. Alternative Radiological Source Technologies
  8. Technology for Future Remote Detection Sensing
  9. Advanced Grid Technologies
  10. Advanced Battery Management and Sensors for Grid-Tied Energy Storage
  11. Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies
  12. Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office
  13. Bioenergy Technologies
  14. Building Technologies
  15. Geothermal
  16. Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies
  17. Solar Energy Technologies
  18. Water Power Technologies
  19. Offshore Wind Environmental Monitoring Technology Development
  20. Energy Storage for Wind
  21. Vehicle Technologies Office
  22. Carbon Capture, Conversion, and Storage
  23. Carbon Dioxide Removal
  24. Hydrogen Technologies
  25. Critical Minerals and Materials Applications
  26. Carbon Ore Processing
  27. Advanced Remediation Technologies
  28. Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy
  29. Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Waste

• $65M in total funding
• Approximately 260 awards

• Energy systems cybersecurity
• Advanced grid technologies
• Advanced battery management and sensors
• Grid-tied energy storage
• Advanced materials and manufacturing technologies
• Industrial efficiency and decarbonization
• Bioenergy technologies
• Building technologies
• Geothermal
• Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies
• Solar energy technologies
• Water power technologies
• Offshore wind environmental monitoring technology development
• Wind energy storage
• Carbon capture, conversion, and storage
• Carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
• Hydrogen technologies
• Critical minerals and materials applications
• Carbon ore processing
• Advanced technologies for nuclear energy
• Advanced technologies for nuclear waste

• To support the Solar Energy Technology Office’s (SETO) research goals for concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) and
  photovoltaic (PV) technologies, while advancing and accelerating market
  adoption of solar technologies.
• Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) for CSP and PV is an agile funding vehicle for SETO investments with two major aims: to investigate high-risk ideas that address a major technology barrier or open the possibility of a novel concept, and to attract new entrants into the applied solar R&D community.
• Projects will focus on innovative and novel ideas that are appropriate for 12-18 months of research to
  determine feasibility.
• Topic areas and areas of interest include:
  1. Topic Area 1: SIPS: CSP
     1. Heliostat technology development
     2. Particle transport technology development
     3. Distributed scale SIPH
     4. Hybrid CSP energy systems
     5. CSGP control system innovation
     6. Technology and analysis impacting CSP soft costs
  2. Topic Areas 2: SIPS: PV
     1. Mitigating performance losses in silicon and cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV modules
     2. Photovoltaics and storage
     3. Utility-scale PV installation, commissioning, and design for resilience
     4. Advanced stable perovskite cell architectures and interfaces, module
        integration, and quality control
     5. Manufacturing equipment feasibility

• $6.5M in total funding
• Approximately 14-24 awards

• Concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP)
• Photovoltaic (PV)
• Thermal energy storage (TES)
• Solar energy
• Heliostat technology
• Particle transport technology development
• Distributed scale SIPH
• Hybrid CSP energy systems
• CSGP control system innovation
• Technology and analysis impacting CSP soft costs
• Silicon and cadmium telluride (CdTe)

• To solicit applications to evaluate innovative
  distribution system communications and control technologies for a secure smart
  grid.
• Seeks research, development, and demonstration activities that will yield new communications and control technologies to enhance the security of the
  electric distribution system, particularly with respect to the grid’s capability to
  prevent, detect, and respond to inadvertent and/or malicious disruptions to critical information flows.

• $4.8M in total funding
• Approximately 2 awards

• Electric grid
• Distributed energy resources (DERs)
• Grid communications infrastructure
• Advanced distribution management systems (ADMS)
• Bulk power system
• Electric distribution system

• Seeks to address challenges faced by marine renewable energy industries and spur innovation and development through foundational research at domestic institutions of higher education.
• To provide funding for foundational R&D activities to advance marine energy and offshore wind technologies, enabling broader utilization of ocean renewable energy sources through the following topic areas:
  1. Topic Area 1: Publicly Available Marine Energy Data Analysis & Test
     Platform(s) to Produce Publicly Available Data
  1. Subtopic 1a: LCOE Reduction Pathway Analysis
  2. Subtopic 1b: Leveraging Existing Marine Energy Test Platform(s) to Produce
     Publicly Available Data
  3. Subtopic 1c: Design and Fabricate Wave Energy Test Platform(s) to Produce
     Publicly Available Data
  2. Topic Area 2: Sustainable & Scalable Offshore Wind, Marine Energy,
     and Aquaculture
     1. Subtopic 2a: Feasibility of Floating Offshore Wind Energy and Aquaculture
        Co-Location
     2. Subtopic 2b: Integration and Co-location of Marine Energy and Aquaculture
  3. Topic Area 3: Undergraduate Senior Design and/or Research Project
  4. Topic Area 4: Open Topic Area

• $14.5M in total funding
• Approximately 33 awards

• Marine renewable energy industries
• Marine energy
• Offshore wind technologies
• Ocean renewable energy sources
• Institutions of higher education
• Research, development, and demonstration (RD&D)

• To advance tools and technologies specifically designed to reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from all hazards including cybersecurity, physical security, and climate effects.
• This effort will lead to next generation tools and technologies not available today that will become widely adopted throughout the energy sector to reduce an incident disruption to energy delivery.
• To support and ensure a more secure, resilient, and reliable energy delivery system through targeted improvements to one or more of the following energy sector processes:
  1. Electricity generation, transmission, or distribution (including renewables,
     energy management systems, and electric vehicles, etc.)
  2. Oil and natural gas production, refining, storage, or distribution
• Topic areas include:
  1. Operate Through Compromise
  2. Adaptable Zero-Trust Architecture
  3. RD&D of Risk Management Tools and Technologies for Natural Hazards
  4. RD&D of Tools and Technologies for Energy Infrastructure Resilience to Wildfires
  5. Physical Security Improvements for Utility Power Substations
  6. University-Based RD&D: Scalable Cyber-Physical Platform

• $70M in total funding
• Approximately 19-27 awards

• Energy delivery infrastructure
• Cybersecurity
• Physical security
• Climate effects
• Energy sector
• Electricity generation, transmission, and distribution
• Oil and natural gas production, refining, storage, and distribution

• To reduce the costs associated with transportation, dismantling, and
  preprocessing of end-of-life electric drive vehicle batteries for recycling, as well
  as recycling of plastic and polymer electric drive vehicle battery accessory
  components through research, development, and demonstration.
• Supports the third objective of BIL’s section 40208 for electric drive vehicle battery recycling and second life applications program: improve the economics of battery recycling to enable an industrial ecosystem in which entities can be economically profitable.
• There are two topic areas:
  1. Improving the economics of transportation, dismantling, and
     preprocessing of electric drive vehicle batteries
  2. Recycling of electric drive vehicle battery accessory components

• $37M in total funding
• Approximately 5-11 awards

• Electric drive vehicle batteries
• Battery recycling
• End-of-life batteries
• Plastic electric drive vehicle battery
• Polymer electric drive vehicle battery
• Transportation, dismantling, preprocessing

• Assists eligible entities in further decarbonizing their buildings through the adoption of the latest national model building energy codes, zero energy codes, other codes that deliver equivalent or greater energy savings, including innovative approaches to
  decarbonize existing buildings through certain measurable and enforceable requirements.
• Topic areas include:
  1. Adoption and Implementation of Qualifying Building Energy Codes by
     Certain Units of Local Government
  2. Adoption and Implementation of the Latest Model Energy Codes or Zero
     Energy Codes with Combinations of Strengthening and Weakening Amendments by
     States and Certain Units of Local Governments
  3. Adoption and Implementation of Innovative Building Energy Code
     Approaches by States and Certain Units of Local Government

• $530M in total funding
• Approximately 40-200 awards

• Building decarbonization
• Energy codes
• Energy savings
• Zero energy codes

• To target the Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment (RDD&D) topics critical to enabling increased adoption of clean hydrogen across sectors, particularly in heavy-duty (HD) vehicles and other heavy-duty transportation applications, which supports the U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization, including the buildout of fueling corridors.
• Topic areas include:
  1. Topic 1: Components for Hydrogen Fueling of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
  2. Topic 2: Standardized Hydrogen Refueling Station of the Future
  3. Topic 3: Enabling Permitting and Safety for Hydrogen Deployment
  4. Topic 4: Equitable Hydrogen Technology Community Engagement

• $59M in total funding
• Approximately 17-32 awards

• Clean hydrogen
• Medium-duty vehicle
• Heavy-duty vehicle
• Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization
• Fueling corridors
• Hydrogen refueling stations
• Permitting

• To invest in innovative social science research that generates actionable insights to improve large-scale solar (LSS) siting processes and outcomes for host communities—particularly those that are disadvantaged—and the solar industry.
• Areas of interest include:
  1. Community Acceptance and Opposition
  2. Permitting and Land Use Planning Processes and Outcomes
  3. Community Impact Evaluation

• $7M in total funding
• Approximately 4-6 awards

• Solar energy
• Large-scale solar (LSS)
• Permitting and land use
• Community impact evaluation

• To accelerate the development of new or expanded commercial-scale geologic carbon storage projects and associated CO2 transport infrastructure, through a focus on detailed site characterization, permitting, and construction stages of project development.
• Priority will be given to projects with substantial CO2 storage capacity and projects that will store CO2 from multiple carbon capture facilities.
• Areas of Interests include:
  1. CarbonSAFE Phase III: Site Characterization and Permitting
  2. CarbonSAFE Phase III.5: NEPA, FEED Studies, and Storage Field Development Plan Only
  3. CarbonSAFE Phase IV: Construction
  4. CarbonSAFE Phase II: Storage Complex Feasibility

• $2.25B in total funding
• Approximately 70 awards

• Commercial-scale geologic carbon storage projects
• CO2 transport infrastructure
• Site characterization, permitting, and construction
• CO2 storage
• Carbon capture
• NEPA studies
• FEED studies

• The GREENWELLS program is targeted at producing sustainable carbon-containing liquids from renewable energy and carbon dioxide by developing dynamically operable reactor systems that can take advantage of cheap, intermittent energy sources such as wind and solar.
• The primary objective of the GREENWELLS program is the development of chemical reactors
  and supporting units that economically store at least 50% of incoming intermittent electrical energy in carbon-containing liquids.
• Targeted outcomes include providing low-cost carbon-containing liquids that:
  1. Enable the transportation and storage of renewable energy
  2. Are suitable as-is or with
     upgrading for use in the difficult-to-decarbonize sectors
  3. speed the development of
     new renewable energy projects by alleviating requirements for connection to an electric grid

• $38M in total funding
• Approximately 12-15 awards

• Carbon-containing liquids
• Renewable energy
• Carbon dioxide
• Chemical reactors
• Thermal, electrochemical, plasmonic, photonic, biological
• ARPA-E

• To solicit applications to enhance grid
  reliability and resilience with demonstrations of sensors and advanced analytics to develop the grid of the future.
• Aims to build on current best practices, standards, and frameworks to
  advance the state of the art in utility data analytics.
• Technologies developed through this FOA should leverage information in the potential for rapid deployment and widescale deployment of these new technologies into the power sector.
• Areas of interest include:
  1. Demonstration of applications utilizing existing AMI data
  2. Demonstration utilizing high fidelity synchronized measurement for grid
     stability monitoring and control
  3. Demonstration of applications utilizing mixes of different sensors for
     improving grid resilience, security, and safety leveraging commercial off-the-shelf sensors

• $7M in total funding
• Approximately 4-7 awards

• Grid reliability
• Electric Grid
• Advanced analytics
• Utility data analytics
• Power sector
• Grid resilience

• To advance
  fundamental research or use-inspired technologies of new bioimaging or sensing approaches, including spatial and temporal resolution, measurement speed, long-term sample stability, selectivity, sensitivity, or chemical specificity of bioimaging technologies.
• Proposed research should demonstrate a comparative advantage over state-of-the-art
  techniques or identify biological characteristics that cannot currently be measured.
• Subtopics include:
  1. Novel research concepts proceeding through technical validation
     that are not required to evaluate new biological hypotheses.
  2. Innovative experimental prototype
     research proceeding through hypothesis-driven biological experimentation

• $15M in total funding
• Approximately 6-8 awards

• Bioiomaging
• Bioeconomy
• Sensing
• Technologies
• Biological

• The RITAP to Advance Deployment of Basin-Scale Carbon Transport and Storage and Community Engagement will establish partnerships comprised of stakeholders with extensive technical, managerial, regulatory and business expertise specific to carbon transport and storage in order to focus on the unique challenges and opportunities of multiple storage-based carbon management projects within a single geologic basin or sub-basin.
• Results of the partnerships will provide:
  1. Valuable public information resources for project developers.
  2. Accelerate the socially equitable and environmentally responsible deployment of storage-based carbon management projects.

• $50M in total funding
• Approximately 4-10 awards

• RITAP
• Basin carbon transport
• Basin carbon storage
• Geologic basin
• Sub-basin
• Storage-based carbon management projects
• Carbon management

• Aims to validate and prototype technologies and processes that address critical materials challenges by developing alternatives, diversifying and expanding supply, increasing manufacturing and material efficiency, and establishing a circular economy.
• Solicits proposals that advance innovation to realize DOE’s critical minerals and materials vision of a reliable, resilient, affordable, diverse, sustainable, and secure domestic supply chains for the clean energy economy.
• Projects funded under this FOA will de-risk innovation and mature technology development in partnership with industry to reduce demand through alternative materials or technologies, extend the lifetime of critical materials, and advance secure and sustainable critical materials manufacturing technologies.
• Topics include:
  1. Topic 1 – Use of Magnets with Reduced Critical Materials Content
  2. Topic 2 – Improved Unit Operations of Processing and Manufacturing of Critical Materials
  3. Topic 3 – Critical Material Recovery from Scrap and Post-Consumer Products
  4. Topic 4 – Reduced Critical Material Demand for Clean Energy Technologies

• $10M in total funding
• Approximately 10-20 awards

• Critical minerals
• Materials supply chain
• Alternative materials
• Critical materials manufacturing technologies
• Magnets
• Critical material recovery
• Scrap and post-consumer products

• Advance transformational cross-sector technologies and innovations needed to reduce industrial energy use and GHG emissions through high-impact applied research, development, and pilot-scale technology validation and demonstration projects.
• The RD&D activities to be funded under this FOA will advance the strategies identified in DOE’s Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap and will support the goals of the Industrial Heat Shot.

• Topic areas included are:
  1. Electrification of Industrial Heat
  2. Efficient Energy Use in Industrial Systems
  3. Decarbonizing Organic Wastewater and Wet Waste Treatment

• $38M in total funding
• Approximately 11-20 awards

• Industrial energy
• Industrial heat
• Industrial Heat Shot
• Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap
• Electrification of industrial heat
• Energy Use
• Organic wastewater
• Wet waste treatment

• Supports three complementary strategies for increasing the flexibility of hydropower: demonstrating hydropower hybrids, supporting innovative advanced hydropower equipment, and developing new operational strategies.

• $9.5M in total funding
• Approximately 4-7 awards

• Hydropower
• Pumped storage hydropower (PSH)
• Plant demonstrations
• Operational flexibility
• HydroWIRES

• The GRIP program will:
  1. Transform the U.S. electric grid at the transmission and distribution levels by increasing resilience in the face of extreme disruptions, enabling data-rich and flexible grid performance, and spurring innovation at all stages of project ideation and execution
  2. Prioritize energy justice as an essential component of infrastructure development by dramatically altering the relationship between energy providers and their communities.
  3. Catalyze and leverage private sector and non-federal public capital for impactful technology and infrastructure deployment
• Topic areas include:
  1. Topic Area 1: Grid Resilience Grants (40101(c))
  2. Topic Area 2: Smart Grid Grants (40107)
  3. Topic Area 3: Grid Innovation Program (40103(b))

• $3.9B in total funding
• Approximately 39-100 awards

• Electric grid
• Energy providers
• Electric utilities
• Grid resilience
• Smart grid
• Grid innovation
• Electricity

• To support and accelerate the transformative technical progress led by early-career scientists and engineers, empowering early-career scientists and engineers in becoming independent researchers and in
  unleashing their creativity to develop disruptive energy technologies.
• A second objective is to encourage these early-career innovators to focus their careers on tackling the substantial and urgent energy-related problems society currently faces.
• Areas of interest include:
  1. Grid
  2. Transportation
  3. Buildings & Construction
  4. Electricity Generation and Storage
  5. Carbon Capture, Sequestration, and Utilization
  6. Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization
  7. Other Energy Technologies

• $10M in total funding
• Approximately 20 awards

• Energy technologies
• Research
• Early-career scientist
• ARPA-E

• To identify disruptive concepts in energy-related technologies that challenge the status quo and represent a leap beyond today’s technology.
• This FOA
  seeks concepts that, if successful, would represent a fundamentally new paradigm in energy
  technology with the potential to make a significant impact on ARPA-E’s statutory goals.

• $10M in total funding per year
• Approximately 20 awards per year

• Energy-related technologies
• ARPA-E

• Supports applied research, development, and demonstration activities in high-priority building
  technologies, including next-generation HVAC, envelope, and lighting retrofits, as well as technologies that enhance the resilience of buildings and allow them to be assets to the electrical grid.
• Topic areas include:
  1. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning and Water Heating
  2. Innovative, Replicable, and Low-Cost Roof and Attic Retrofits
  3. Building Resilience and Capacity Restraints
  4. Commercial Lighting Retrofit Advancements

• Up to $30M in funding
• Approximately 12-26 awards

• Building energy efficiency
• Energy efficiency
• Building technologies

• Makes available funds for transformative, at-scale projects within distribution systems that demonstrate approaches to integrate grid-edge renewable and distributed energy systems with broader energy networks.
• These projects will seek to demonstrate reliable operations and system-wide value in the context of distribution grids with high levels of variable renewable generation and flexible load assets.
• DOE is seeking to fund a portfolio of projects that demonstrate and validate reliable operations and financial value from a range of grid topologies with diverse energy resources and DES ownership models, demonstrating that aggregated and coordinated DERs can provide reliable, predictable grid services for a wide range of system configurations.

• $50M in total funding
• Approximately 2-4 awards

• Distributed energy systems (DES)
• Grid-edge renewable
• Energy networks
• Distribution grids
• Renewable generation
• Distributed energy resource (DER)

• To assist applicants that have formed partnerships with or otherwise include States, Regional Transmission Organizations/Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) to perform analytical studies on critical market issues or convene stakeholders to address issues facing developing or existing wholesale markets.
• Priorities include seams between markets, regional resource adequacy, market design and price formation, regional footprint studies, and integrated regional planning approaches.

• $9M in total funding
• Approximately 6-14 awards

• Wholesale electricity market
• Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs)
• Independent System Operators (ISOs)
• Market seams
• Regional resource adequacy
• Market design
• Price formation
• Regional footprint studies
• Integrated regional planning approaches

• To improve the reliability of moorings for floating offshore wind energy and marine energy converters and to reduce noise associated with installing fixed-bottom offshore wind energy foundations.
• Supports accelerated and responsible development of offshore renewable energy by funding research to reduce risk and improve environmental compatibility deployments in U.S. waters.

• $16.4M in total funding
• Approximately 9-16 awards

• Floating offshore wind energy
• Marine energy converters
• Moorings
• Offshore renewable energy

• To invest in research and development (R&D) to support continued innovation and cost reduction for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) voltage-source converter (VSC) transmission systems.
• To address the significant cost of HVDC systems for transmission applications as HVDC technology is a key enabler for large scale deployment of offshore wind as well as land-based renewable generation.

• $10M in total funding
• Approximately 3-4 awards

• High-voltage direct current (HVDC)
• Voltage-source converter (VSC)
• Transmission
• Offshore wind
• Land-based renewables

• To fund research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) for two approaches to energy storage in concentrated solar-thermal (CST) systems: thermochemical storage via solar fuel production and local thermal energy storage (TES) for dispatchable energy.

• $30M in total funding
• Approximately 8-15 awards

• Solar-thermal fuels
• Thermal energy storage
• Concentrated solar-thermal energy (CST)
• Thermochemical storage
• Local thermal energy storage (TES)

• To advance technologies that capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial facilities and power plants and convert those CO2 emissions into valuable products.
• There are two areas of interest:
  1. Biological Pathways Utilizing Algae to Convert Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide to Products
  2. Decarbonization of Industrial Processes Using Oxygen-Based (Oxy-combustion and Chemical Looping) Approaches

• $17.5M in total funding
• Up to 16 anticipated awards

• Carbon management
• Carbon dioxide (CO2)
• Carbon capture
• Industrial facilities
• Power plants
• Oxygen-based approaches
• Biological pathways
• Algae

• Competitive funding program for incubator organizations that support energy startups and entrepreneurs that provides capital, mentorship, technology validation, business development, manufacturer connections, and additional resources.

• $4M in total competitive funding
• Up to approximately 20 winners for $150K in cash prizes for Phase 1
• Approximately 1-6 winners of $1M cooperative agreements in Phase 2

• Energy startup
• Incubators
• Energy entrepreneurs
• Small business

• To support the transport of carbon dioxide (CO2) captured from industrial and power generation facilities, as well as from legacy CO2 emissions captured directly from the atmosphere to locations for permanent geologic storage or conversion to useful products.
• Supports front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies for regional CO2 transport networks to safely transport captured CO2 from key sources to centralized locations.
• Projects will focus on carbon transport costs, transport network configurations, and technical and commercial considerations.

• $27M in total funding
• Up to 9 anticipated awards

• Carbon capture
• Carbon dioxide transport
• FEED studies
• Regional CO2 networks
• Carbon transport systems
• Industrial emissions
• Power generation emissions
• Geologic Storage
• Conversion

• Invests in research to expand public understanding of:
  1. Overall effectiveness of CO2-EOR in unconventional oil reservoirs
  2. The possibility of combining EOR and associated CO2 storage in horizontal, hydraulically fractured unconventional oil wells
  3. The potential for combining EOR and associated CO2 storage in a manner that results in a reduced carbon footprint oil classification for the incremental oil produced

• $17.2M in total funding
• Up to 2 anticipated awards

• CO2-EOR
• Enhanced oil recovery
• Carbon dioxide
• Unconventional oil wells
• Unconventional oil reservoirs
• Carbon dioxide storage

• To accelerate the capabilities of two thin-film photovoltaic (PV) technologies: metal-halide perovskite PV and cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV.
• Will fund innovative industrial research and development (R&D) projects to enable the commercialization and competitiveness of perovskite PV and CdTe PV.

• $36M in total funding
• Approximately 2-15 awards

• Solar
• Photovoltaic (PV)
• Thin-film
• Perovskite PV
• CdTe PV

• To research technology solutions to make clean hydrogen a more available and affordable fuel for electricity generation, industrial decarbonization, and transportation.
• Focuses on using hydrogen systems to convert various waste materials—such as biomass, plastics, garbage, and other wastes—into clean energy.

• $19M in total funding
• Up to 10 anticipated awards

• Clean hydrogen
• Electricity generation
• Industrial decarbonization
• Transportation
• Hydrogen systems

• To develop advanced materials and components that can better manage and withstand the heat generated during hydrogen combustion for hydrogen-fueled turbines.
• There are three primary focus areas:
  1. Research to produce knowledge and data to help improve component designs for gas turbines that use hydrogen-containing fuels
  2. Development of turbine components that can utilize advanced cooling and advanced materials and manufacturing technologies
  3. Development of strategies for minimizing risks associated with material selection, and design improvements for engines operating on hydrogen fuels that increase turbine performance

• $6.4M in total funding
• Up to 8 anticipated awards

• Hydrogen-fueled turbines
• Hydrogen combustion
• Materials
• Components
• Hydrogen-containing fuels

• Develops domestic supply chains for critical minerals and materials (CMM) by creating paths and strategies to commercialize processes that utilize domestic resources. These activities can include extraction, separation, processing, refining, alloying, or recycling technologies but should focus on decreasing environmental emissions, reducing resource usage or intensity, and/or optimizing cost.
• Includes five areas of interest, including CMM supply chain, value added products, next generation technologies, alternative materials, and alternative products.

• $150M in funding
• Approximately 30 awards

• Critical materials
• CMM
• Domestic resources
• Extraction
• Separation
• Processing
• Refining
• Alloying
• Recycling

• Solicits cost-shared research proposals for pilot-scale field deployment and validation of efficient, cost-effective solutions ready for pre-commercialization that can eliminate flaring and non-safety related venting of natural gas at the well site.
• Accelerates development of technologies that improve efficiency of upstream natural gas and oil processing and separation operations using novel approaches that would support the evolving regulatory landscape to drastically reduce or eliminate the use of flares at the wellhead through gas processing and/or conversion to other sustainable chemicals and low-carbon marketable products.

• Up to $30M in funding
• Up to 3 anticipated awards

• Flare
• Venting
• Natural gas
• Upstream
• Oil
• Processing
• Separation
• Wellhead
• Sustainable chemical
• Low-carbon marketable products
• Methane

• To spur the conversion of long-standing facilities to manufacture electric vehicles and components.
• Supported by the IRA,
• Provides cost-shared grants for domestic production of efficient hybrid, plug-in electric hybrid, plug-in electric drive, and hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.
• Expands manufacturing of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty electrified vehicles and components
• Supports commercial facilities including those for vehicle assembly, component assembly, and related vehicle part manufacturing.

• $2B in total funding
• Approximately 9-15 awards

• Electric vehicles
• Hybrid
• Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles
• Light duty
• Medium duty
• Heavy duty

• Awards cash prizes and mentorship opportunities to organizations supporting innovation, entrepreneurship, capacity building, and economic development in communities historically underrepresented in climate and energy technology funding.
• Eligible competitors will develop and carry out activities related to clean energy that promote business and technology incubation and acceleration along with other community-based capacity building, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

• Clean energy
• Manufacturing

• To boost the production of advanced batteries and battery materials that are critical to rapidly growing clean energy industries.
• Includes electric vehicles and energy storage.
• Part of the IRA
• Second funding round for battery materials processing and battery manufacturing grants to support the creation of new, retrofitted, and expanded domestic commercial facilities for battery materials, battery components, and cell manufacturing.

• $3.5B in total funding
• Approximately 19-42 new awards

• Batteries
• Materials
• Electric vehicles
• Energy storage
• Cell manufacturing
• Components

• DOE’s NETL partnering with EPA.
• Funds for eligible States to mitigate methane emissions from marginal conventional wells (MCWs)
• Provides financial assistance to operators/well owners to voluntarily and permanently plug and abandon MCWs (including elements of environmental restoration required to comply with applicable State or Federal plugging and abandonment standards and regulations) on non-Federal lands.
• Methane emissions monitoring from MCWs.

• Methane
• Marginal conventional wells

• For timely siting and construction of new or upgraded interstate or offshore electric transmission facilities.
• Provide economic benefits to impacted communities, supporting efforts to standardize and streamline siting and permitting processes, coordinate across jurisdictions.
• Enable robust public engagement and provide funds to siting authorities or other types of state, local, or Tribal governmental entities to support a wide range of projects that provide benefits targeted to the needs of impacted communities.

• $300M in total funding
• $100M for Siting and Permitting (14-40 anticipated awards)
• $200M for Economic Development (4-40 anticipated awards)

• Siting
• Transmission
• Electricity

• To advance the processing of rare earth elements and critical minerals for industrial and manufacturing applications.
• Two topic areas:
  1. Advanced process development for production of rare earth metals and co-production of critical minerals and materials from coal-based resources
  2. Production of critical minerals and materials excluding rare earth materials from coal-based resources.

• $30M in funding
• Approximately 6-7 awards

• Rare earth elements
• Critical minerals
• Industrial
• Manufacturing
• Coal
• Coal-based

• To pursue scalable solutions for procuring CO2e reductions in sectors with commercially viable solutions and to establish relationships with new project developers, solutions providers and project hosts that are active in more nascent sectors.
• Hard-to-abate sectors and activities that are applicable to this Request for Proposals (RFP) include the following:
  1. Trucking
  2. Maritime shipping
  3. Aviation shipping
  4. Production or offtake of low-carbon cement or concrete
  5. Production or offtake of low-carbon copper
  6. Production or offtake of low-carbon steel
  7. Semiconductor manufacturing
  8. Heating and cooling of commercial and industrial facilities
  9. Production and offtake of green hydrogen
• To receive the RFP, Meta requires organizaitons to have an executed NDA in Meta’s mutual NDA template.

• Hard-to-abate sectors
• Trucking
• Maritime shipping
• Aviation shipping
• Low-carbon cement or concrete
• Low-carbon copper
• Low-carbon steel
• Semiconductor manufacturing
• Heating and cooling
• Green hydrogen

• To seek partners to collaborate on a proposal for the development of alternative iron
  making technologies for the upcoming IEDO EERE FOA in Topic Area 2 (Decarbonizing
  Iron and Steel) under Area of Interest 1 (Alternative Iron Making).
• NETL is making this
  announcement to locate a primary partner to provide a sodium-based iron ore reduction
  technology and identify an alkali metal consultant to provide expertise on methods and safety.

• Energy and Emissions Intensive Industries FOA
• Alternative iron
  making technologies
• Iron and steel
• Sodium-based iron ore reduction
  technology
• Alkali metal

• To support fundamental research, education, and training of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today.
• To seek inventive approaches to invigorate the manufacturing ecosystem and seed nascent future industries that can only be imagined today.
• To support research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national security, by expanding job opportunities to a diverse STEM workforce, and by reducing adverse impacts of manufacturing on the environment.

• $28M in total funding
• Approximately 16 awards

• Manufacturing
• Industry
• Cyber manufacturing
• Eco manufacturing
• Biomanufacturing

• To examine and demonstrate the principles, methodologies, implementations, and impacts associated with responsible design, development, and deployment of technologies in practice, focusing especially on the key technologies specified in Section 10387 of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.
• To stimulate activity and fill gaps in research, innovation, and capacity building in the responsible design, development,
  and deployment of technologies.

• $16M in total funding
• Approximately 28-36 awards

• CHIPS and Science Act
• Technology development
• Artificial intelligence
• Biotechnology
• Climate change mitigation
• Environmental sustainability

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• To identify and capitalize on opportunities for bringing fundamental plasma science investigations to bear on problems of societal and technological need within the scope of science and engineering supported by the participating NSF programs.
• To foster an inclusive community of scientists and engineers, an ecosystem spanning multiple NSF Directorates, in the pursuit of translational research at the interface of fundamental plasma science and technological innovation.

• Plasma physics
• Plasma chemistry
• Materials science
• Space science

• The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) is the flagship competitive grants program that provides funding for fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences.
• The goal of this program is to invest in agricultural
  production research, education, and extension projects for more sustainable, productive, and
  economically-viable plant and animal production systems.
• This year’s applications are sought in the following priority areas:
  1. Plant health and production and plant products
  2. Animal health and production and animal products
  3. Food safety, nutrition, and health
  4. Bioenergy, natural resources, and environment
  5. Agriculture economics and rural communities

• $300M in total funding
• USDA is not committed to make a specific number of awards

• Agriculture
• Plant production
• Bioenergy
• Bioeconomy
• Natural resources

• To develop innovative ways to extend the lifetimes of products or parts via re-using, repairing, refurbishing, remanufacturing, or repurposing (“Re-X”) before recycling.
• There are three phases under this competition:
  1. Phase 1: Identify! – Teams will identify a new or expanded Re-X supply chain opportunity including its potential community benefits and create a plan.
  2. Phase 2: Prepare! – Teams will further advance their idea and plan.
  3. Phase 3: Develop! – Only open to selected winners from Phase 2, Phase 3 winners will demonstrate substantial progress towards implementing their innovation in a viable Re-X supply chain that will continue beyond the prize period.

• $5.6M in total funding
• Approximately 30 awards

• Re-X
• Re-use
• Repair
• Refurbishment
• Remanufacturing
• Repurposing
• Circular economy

• Offers an opportunity for private industry to partner with DOE’s National Labs to advance energy-related National Lab-developed technology toward commercialization and to reduce the barriers to commercializing lab-developed energy-related technologies and IP.
• Intent is to increase the volume and speed to which energy-related lab-developed technologies make it to market from an improved lab commercialization ecosystem.

• Up to $44.7M in total funding
• Approximately 25-50 awards

• Lab call
• Lab-developed energy-related technologies
• Lab-developed energy-related IP
• DOE National Labs

• To provide impactful CDR concept proposals, develop and refine these plans, and ultimately deliver their specified CDR credits.
• There are four eligible technology pathways:
  1. Direct Air Capture
  2. Biomass (BiCRS) technologies
  3. Enhanced geological weathering and enhanced mineralization technologies
  4. Planned and managed carbon sinks

• $35M in total funding
• Approximately 45 awards

• Carbon dioxide removal (CDR)
• Direct air capture (DAC)
• Biomass (BiCRS) technologies
• Enhanced geological weathering
• Enhanced mineralization technology
• Carbon sinks

• Demand-side support program designed to accelerate commercialization and demonstrate the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use of clean hydrogen at the Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs).
• Seeks assistance in the de-risking of clean hydrogen through demand certainty or other means.
• Seeks measures that would accelerate commercialization of clean hydrogen by providing medium-term revenue certainty to projects affiliated with DOE-selected Hubs.

• Up to $1B in total funding

• Clean hydrogen
• Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs
• H2Hubs
• Demand-side support
• Commercial deployment
• Production
• Processing
• Delivery
• Storage
• End-use

• LPO accepting and encouraging eligible applications under the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program for automotive manufacturing conversion projects that retain high-quality jobs in communities that currently host manufacturing facilities.
• Through ATVM, LPO supports manufacturing facilities for eligible vehicles or qualifying components, including projects to build new facilities; reequip, modernize, or expand existing facilities; and/or for engineering integration performed in the United States related to the manufacturing of eligible vehicles or components.

• Loan
• Manufacturing facilities
• Vehicles
• Automotive

• DOE’s Voucher Program connects U.S. entrepreneurs, businesses, technology developers, local governments, and other partners with third-party voucher providers to advance demonstration and commercialization of innovative energy technologies.
• Voucher Opportunity 1: Pre-Demonstration Commercialization Support (OCED/EERE)
• Voucher Opportunity 2: Performance Validation, Modeling, and Certification Support (OCED/EERE)
• Voucher Opportunity 3: Clean Energy Demonstration Project Siting/Permitting Support (OCED/EERE)
• Voucher Opportunity 4: Commercialization Support (EERE)
• Voucher Opportunity 5: Commercialization Support (FECM)

• $30M in total voucher funding
• Awards range from $50K to $250K

• Demonstration
• Commercialization
• Energy technologies