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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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)

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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’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 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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)

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 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 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)

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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