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2,039 projects announced since September 2022

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Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) and Notices of Intent (NOIs)
Updated Through July 23, 2024

Published	Program Title	Deadline	Summary	Funding Amount	Interest Areas
7/15/2024	DOE Undocumented Orphaned Well Characterization and Remediation	FOA anticipated 2024	To competitively solicit cost-shared research and development (R&D) proposals to enhance technologies and processes for effective characterization of undocumented orphaned wells (UOWs); improve advanced sensors for the measurement, estimation, and tracking of methane emissions from these wells and their associated infrastructure; and support the development of new characterization concepts and advanced materials for more efficient and cost-effective permanent plugging and abandonment (P&A) of such wells. DOE seeks to advance cost-effective technology options toward commercialization that can more efficiently characterize the condition of a UOW and provide a range of remediation options. If released, this FOA is anticipated to focus on the following three Areas of Interest (AOI): Advanced Remediation Techniques for UOW Boreholes: Address the need for novel and advanced remediation materials for UOW boreholes in various conditions and with minimal surface disturbance UOW Wellbore Characterization: Address the need for surface deployable technologies that do not require entry into the wellbore to characterize UOW wellbore conditions, as well as determine the need for novel P&A techniques in unique situations Long-Term UOW Monitoring: Address the need for cost-effective, long-term well monitoring techniques and technologies to measure and quantify methane emissions from UOWs both before and after P&A activities.	N/A	Undocumented orphaned wells (UOWs) Advanced sensors Measurement, estimation, tracking Methane emissions Permanent plugging and abandonment (P&A Remediation techniques and materials Monitoring techniques and technologies
7/15/2024	DOT Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Stage Two Implementation Grant Opportunity	Application submission deadline August 14, 2024	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. 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
6/3/2024	DOE Fiscal Year 2024 Vehicle Technologies Office Batteries & Electrification	FOA anticipated July or August 2024	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: Demonstration of Smart Charge Management for Electric Vehicles Improved 12 Volt Lead Acid Batteries for Safety-Critical Electric Vehicle Applications Develop Vehicle or Structural Level Strategies to Reduce the Likelihood of the Cascading Effects of Electric Vehicle Fires Battery Electrode, Cell, and Pack Manufacturing Cost Reduction Silicon-Based Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries High Energy Density Conversion Cathodes	N/A	Electric vehicles (EVs) Battery chemistries and component materials Battery electrode, cell, and pack manufacturing
5/30/2024	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program: Round 2	Application submission deadline August 28, 2024	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.	$800M in total funding	Electric vehicles (EVs) Charging infrastructure Hydrogen fueling infrastructure Propane fueling infrastructure Natural gas fueling infrastructure Alternative Fuel Corridors (AFCs)
5/15/2024	DOE Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Centers	Anticipate FOA in the 2024 calendar year	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: Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at an Electric Generating Unit Enabling Capital Improvements at an Existing Carbon Capture Test Center Carbon Capture, Removal, and Conversion Test Center at a Cement Manufacturing Facility	N/A	Carbon capture Carbon removal Carbon conversion test centers Carbon management technologies Electric generating units Industrial manufacturing facilities
5/14/2024	DOE Critical Facility Energy Resilience (CiFER)	Anticipate FOA fall 2024	To fund a competitive pilot demonstration grant program for energy storage projects that are wholly U.S.-made, sourced, and supplied. To facilitate the large-scale commercial development and deployment innovative storage technologies to support resiliency needs. To deploy an innovative energy storage technology at a host site with identified resiliency needs at the required scale, performance, and technology maturity level appropriate to advance technology towards commercialization. To demonstrate the benefits of an innovative energy storage technology being used in the field to the large energy storage end-user and potential investor ecosystem	$15M in total funding Approximately 3 awards	Energy storage projects Energy storage technology Electricity Grid
5/13/2024	DOT Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Stage 1 Planning and Prototyping Grants	Application submission deadline July 12, 2024	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
5/9/2024	DOT PHMSA FY 2024 Natural Gas Distribution Infrastructure Safety and Modernization (NGDISM) Grant Program	Application submission deadline June 20, 2024	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.	$196M in total funding	Natural gas Distribution infrastructure Pipelines Leakage
4/24/2024	EPA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles Grants	Application submission deadline July 25, 2024	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: The School Bus Sub-Program The Vocational Vehicles Sub-Program	$932M in total funding Approximately 40-160 awards	Non-ZE Class 6 and 7 heavy-duty vehicles ZE vehicles./li> School bus Vocational vehicles
4/24/2024	DOE Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development	Anticipate FOA late spring or early summer	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: Floating Offshore Wind Platform Research and Development Alternative Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Foundation Types and Installation Techniques Technology Advancement for Bird and Bat Research Offshore Development of a Manufacturing and Supply Chain Offshore Wind Consortium Based in the Great Lakes Region Floating Offshore Wind Center of Excellence 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
4/23/2024	DOE SuperTruck Charge	Anticipate FOA June or July 2024	To seek innovative research, development, and demonstration of concepts for delivering high power charging, load management, and delivery of grid services that alleviate grid capacity challenges at a large-scale charging installation for medium duty and heavy-duty (MD/HD) trucks through optimal design of charging infrastructure and operations. Areas of Interest include: Truck Depots concentrated near hubs, ports, warehouses, and other logistics operations Truck Stops/Travel Centers along key freight corridors	N/A	High power charging Load management Grid services and capacity Medium duty and heavy-duty (MD/HD) trucks Charging infrastructure Hubs, ports, warehouses, and other logistics operations Freight corridors
4/17/2024	DOT Electric or Low-Emitting Ferry Pilot Program	Application submission deadline June 17, 2024	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.	$316M in total funding	Ferry boats, terminals Low-emitting ferries Fueling infrastructure
4/12/2024	DOE Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation	Anticipate FOA June 2024	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: Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy Smart Manufacturing for Tooling and Equipment Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials Smart Technologies for Sustainable and Competitive US Mining	N/A	Smart manufacturing technologies Manufacturing sector Circular economy High performance materials
4/3/2024	DOE Promoting Domestic and International Consensus on Clean Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Technologies	FOA anticipated in future	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: Program Area 1: Carbon Management Technologies Carbon Management Technology Consultation, Analysis and Cooperation Carbon Management Technology Outreach Carbon Management Technology Technical Conference and Workshop Support Program Area 2: Domestic and International Oil, Natural Gas, Methane Hydrates, Hydrogen, and Critical Minerals Oil, Natural Gas, Hydrogen, and Critical Minerals Consultation, Analysis, and Cooperation Oil, Natural Gas, Methane Hydrates, Hydrogen, and Critical Minerals Bilateral and Regional Initiatives and Activities	N/A	Carbon management technologies Carbon dioxide removal Oil, natural gas, methane hydrates Hydrogen Critical minerals
3/27/2024	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Aerodynamics for Extreme-Scale Offshore Wind Performance and Survival (AESOPS)	Application submission deadline May 6, 2024	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
3/25/2024	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects grants program (INFRA)	Application submission deadline May 6, 2024	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.	$780M in total funding	Multimodal freight Highway projects Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity MPDG
3/25/2024	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) National Infrastructure Project Assistance grants program (Mega)	Application submission deadline May 6, 2024	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: A highway or bridge project on the National Multimodal Freight Network A highway or bridge project on the National Highway Freight Network A highway or bridge project on the National Highway System A freight intermodal (including public ports) or freight rail project that provides public benefit A railway highway grade separation or elimination project An intercity passenger rail project 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	$1.7B in total funding	Multimodal freight Highway projects Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity MPDG
3/25/2024	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight and Highway Projects grants program (INFRA)	Application submission deadline May 6, 2024	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 A highway or bridge project on the National Highway System 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 A highway-railway grade crossing or grade separation project A wildlife crossing project 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 A project for a marine highway corridor that is functionally connected to the NHFN and is likely to reduce road mobile source emissions A highway, bridge, or freight project on the National Multimodal Freight Network	$2.7B in total funding	Multimodal freight Highway projects Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant Opportunity MPDG
3/18/2024	EPA FY 2024 – FY 2025 Pollution Prevention Grant Program	Application submission deadline May 17, 2024	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): 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 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
3/18/2024	EPA Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FY 2024 – FY 2025 Pollution Prevention Grant Program	Application submission deadline May 17, 2024	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): 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 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
2/28/2024	EPA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Clean Ports Program: Climate and Air Quality Planning Competition	Optional Notice of Intent deadline March 28, 2024 Application submission deadline May 28, 2024	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
2/28/2024	EPA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Clean Ports Program: Zero-Emission Technology Deployment Competition	Optional Notice of Intent deadline March 28, 2024 Application submission deadline May 28, 2024	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
2/21/2024	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FY22-FY24 Congestion Relief Program	Application deadline April 22, 2024	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: Improving intermodal integration with highways, highway operations, and highway performance Reducing or shifting highway users to off- peak travel times or to nonhighway travel modes during peak travel times 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
2/15/2024	EPA FY2024-FY2025 Regional Source Reduction Assistance Grants	Application deadline April 15, 2024	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
2/14/2024	USDA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Forest Landowner Support: Tribal Access to Emerging Private Markets for Climate Mitigation and Forest Resilience	Application deadline August 21, 2024	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
2/8/2024	DOT FY2024 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Low- or No-Emission Program	Proposal deadline April 25, 2024	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.	$1.1B in total funding	Energy efficient transit vehicles Zero-emission buses Low-emission transit buses Bus facility capital projects
1/23/2024	DOT Initiative on the Use of Steel Slag in Cement and Concrete	Application deadline March 27, 2024	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
12/27/2023	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP)	Anticipate FOA by February 16, 2024 Application deadline April 30, 2024	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: The loading and unloading of goods at the port, such as for marine terminal equipment 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 Operational improvements, including projects to improve port resilience Environmental and emissions mitigation measures, including: Port electrification or electrification master planning Development of port or terminal microgrids Installation of port bunkering facilities from ocean-going vessels for fuels 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	$450M in total funding	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
12/20/2023	DOE Fiscal Year 2024 Technology Integration (TI) Funding Opportunity Announcement	Anticipate FOA January-February 2024	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: Clean Cities Outreach, Engagement, and Technical Assistance Training on Zero Emission Vehicle and Infrastructure Technologies for Critical Emergency Response Workers Demonstration and Deployment Open Topic	N/A	Technology Integration Program Clean Cities Alternative fuels Advanced vehicle technologies Transportation costs Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs)
12/6/2023	DOE Carbon Management (Round 5)	Anticipate FOA early 2024	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: Carbon Conversion Technology Non-Photosynthetic Biological Conversion of CO₂ Conversion of CO₂ to Plastics Conversion of CO₂ to Solid Carbon Products Point Source Carbon Capture Technology Development of Enabling Technologies for Carbon Capture Systems Installed at Natural Gas, Coal, or Industrial Facilities	N/A	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
12/4/2023	NASA ROSES 2023: A.6 Carbon Monitoring System	Notice of Intent submission deadline January 4, 2024 Proposal submission deadline March 5, 2024	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
11/30/2023	DOT Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant Program	Application submission deadline February 28, 2024	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: Highway or bridge projects Public transportation projects Passenger and freight rail transportation projects Intermodel projects Others	$1.5B in total funding	RAISE grants Surface transportation Transportation sector Highway Bridge Passenger rail Freight rail Intermodel transportation
11/21/2023	EPA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program	Application submission deadline November 21, 2024	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: Reducing and preventing pollution Building resilience to climate change and mitigating current and future climate risks Enhancing meaningful involvement in government processes related to environmental and climate justice Expanding access to high-quality jobs and economic opportunity through workforce development 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: Track I – Community-Driven Investments for Change 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
11/17/2023	EPA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Hydrofluorocarbon Reclaim and Innovation Destruction Grants	Application deadline February 16, 2024	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: Reclaim Technologies Reclaim Market Dynamics Innovative Destruction Technologies	$14.25M in total funding Approximately 4-9 awards	Hydroflurocarbons HCFs Destruction technologies
11/9/2023	DOE WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses	Anticipate FOA December 2023	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: Supporting feasibility studies Supporting more detailed engineering design work to position communities for future projects and demonstrations	N/A	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
9/28/2023	EPA Reducing Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Construction Materials and Products	Application deadline January 1, 2024	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)
9/25/2023	DOT Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Fueling Aviation’s Sustainable Transition via Sustainable Aviation Fuels (FAST-SAF) and Low-Emission Aviation Technologies (FAST-Tech) Grant Program	Application deadline November 27, 2023	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)
9/20/2023	EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program: Implementation Grants (General Competition)	Application deadline April 1, 2024	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)
9/20/2023	EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Program: Implementation Grants Competition for Tribes and Territories	Application deadline May 1, 2024	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
9/13/2023	DOT Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator	Application deadline November 13, 2023	To improve the reliability of existing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure by repairing and replacing existing chargers that are broken or non-operational.	$100M in total funding	Electric vehicles EVs Charging Infrastructure
9/1/2023	USDA Assistance to High Energy Cost Communities	Application deadline October 31, 2023	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.	$10M in grant funding	High energy costs Generation Transmission Distribution On-grid / off-grid Renewable energy projects Energy efficiency Energy conservation
8/31/2023	DOT Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition (FAST) Grant Program	Anticipate NOFO by December 2023	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.	N/A	Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
8/2/2023	EPA Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) National Grants	Application package deadline: December 1, 2023	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

Requests for Information (RFIs) and Proposals (RFPs) Updated Through July 23, 2024

Published	Program Title	Deadline	Summary	Funding Amount	Interest Areas
6/27/2024	USDA Procedures for Quantification, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated With the Production of Domestic Agricultural Commodities Used as Biofuel Feedstocks	Response deadline July 25, 2024	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: Biofuel feedstock crops and practices for consideration in USDA’s analysis Scientific data, information, and analysis for consideration in quantifying the GHG emissions outcomes of climate-smart agricultural practices and conventional farming practices Records, documentation, and data necessary to provide sufficient evidence to verify practice adoption and maintenance Systems used to trace feedstocks throughout the biofuel supply chain Third-party verification of practice adoption and maintenance.	N/A	Climate-smart farming practices Agricultural commodities Biofuels Biofuel feedstocks Feedstock crops Biofuel supply chain Third-party verification
6/10/2024	DOE ARPA-E Industrial Chemistry and Process Innovations to Enable Continuous, Waste-Free, Domestic Manufacture of Critical Battery Cathode Active Materials	Response deadline July 10, 2024	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).	N/A	Supply chain manufacturing Cathode active materials (CAMs) and their precursors (pCAMs)
5/14/2024	DOE Transforming Industry: Strategies for Decarbonization	Response deadline June 10, 2024	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: Industrial Decarbonization Challenges, Barriers, and Cross-Cutting Strategies Framework for Industrial Decarbonization Pathways Impacts and Evaluation Criteria for Industrial Decarbonization Pathways Net-zero Decarbonization Pathways for Specific Industrial Subsectors	N/A	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
5/14/2024	DOE ARPA-E Recovery of High Energy-Value Materials from Wastewater	Response deadline June 5, 2024	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: Ammonia (or ammonia with phosphorus) as a high-quality feedstock for direct input to fertilizer supply chains or hydrogen carrier markets Critical minerals that can displace metal ore production or overseas procurement for domestic use	N/A	High energy-value materials Wastewater Waste stream treatment Ammonia Critical minerals
5/14/2024	DOE ARPA-E Accelerating the Catalyst Development Cycle for Net Zero Applications	Response deadline June 13, 2024	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: Integration of catalytic material discovery and synthesis with device (i.e., cell or reactor) performance in a rapid, parallel, automated, and/or combinatorial manner. Utilization of hardware automation and modern data science to generate, handle, and process large quantities of high quality, multi-dimensional experimental data.	N/A	Heterogenenous catalysts Reactors Equipment and devices Unit operations Process technology applications Energy efficiency increases, emissions reductions, precious metal reductions
5/7/2024	DOE Progression of Net-Zero Emission Propulsion Technologies for the Off-Road Sector	Response deadline June 10, 2024	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.	N/A	Propulsion technologies Biodiesel Renewable diesel Renewable natural gas Battery electric Direct electrification (catenary) Electric hybridization Hydrogen fueled internal combustion engines Hydrogen fuel cells
5/6/2024	DOE Manufacturability Pre-Production Design Implications on Energy Storage Technologies	Response deadline June 7, 2024	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.	N/A	Energy storage technology
4/29/2024	DOE Blue Sky Training Program for Grid Scale Energy Storage Systems	Response deadline June 3, 2024	To notify interested parties of its intent to implement BSTP and to describe the proposed plan and timeline	N/A	Blue Sky Training Program BSTP Grid Scale Energy Storage Systems (ESS)
4/24/2024	DOE U.S Domestic Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Innovation	Response deadline July 30, 2024	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.	N/A	Wind blade manufacturing
4/5/2024	DOE ARPA-E Electrified Airplane Integration Retrofit Powertrains Learnings And Novel Electric Port & Operations Related Technologies (E-AIRPLANE/PORT)	Response deadline May 31, 2024	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.	N/A	Retrofit aircraft Powertrains ASCEND Electrification
1/31/2024	DOE ARPA-E Securing New Sources of Helium for Advanced Energy Applications	Response deadline March 15, 2024	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: Develop innovative mapping technologies to locate new helium sources; and Produce helium using advanced separation technologies designed for novel sources and/or the enhancement of helium recovery and recycling.	N/A	Helium supply chain Helium sources Advanced separation technologies Helium recovery and recycling
1/29/2024	DOE Industrial Deployment and Demonstration Opportunities for Carbon Capture Technologies	Response deadline March 14, 2024	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.	N/A	Carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) Industrial decarbonization Carbon capture technology
1/23/2024	DOE Supporting Success for Low-Income and Disadvantaged Community Solar Program Design, Implementation, and Adoption	Response deadline February 23, 2024	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: Category 1: Maximizing Impact Category 2: Customer Satisfaction Category 3: Workforce and Entrepreneurship Opportunities Category 4: Long-term Success & Sustainability Category 5: Relation to Current Programs & Resources	N/A	Solar and storage deployment Low-income and disadvantaged communities (LIDAC).
1/22/2024	DOE Receivers and Reactors for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Plants and Solar Industrial Process Heat	Response deadline February 20, 2024	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: Category A: High temperature receivers for CSP applications (≥650⁰C) Category B: Low temperature (<300⁰C) CST receivers for IPH applications Category C: High temperature (≥300⁰C) CST receivers and reactors for IPH applications	N/A	Concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants Reactors for CSP industries High temperature receivers for CSP applications Solar industrial process heat
1/19/2024	DOE Offshore Wind National and Regional Research and Development Priorities	Response deadline February 20, 2024	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: Category 1: Floating Offshore Wind Platform Research and Development Refinement and Innovation in Floating Platform Design, Manufacturing, and Deployment Next-Generation Integrated Floating Offshore Wind Turbine/Platform Technologies Broader Considerations in Floating Offshore Wind Development Category 2: Alternative Fixed-Bottom Offshore Wind Foundation Types and Installation Techniques Offshore Wind Fixed-Bottom Turbine Structures and Foundations Vessels, Infrastructure, and Deployment Design to Commercialization Process Category 3: Technology Advancement for Bird and Bat Research Offshore Research & Data Collection 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 Contextual Regional Information on Great Lakes Offshore Wind Great Lakes Supply Chain and Manufacturing Consortium Category 6: Offshore Wind Workforce Readiness Workforce Needs for the Offshore Wind Industry and Associated Supply Chain (For Employers) Workforce Development Strategies Supporting the Offshore Wind Industry (For All Stakeholders)	N/A	Offshore wind Floating platforms Offshore wind turbines Supply chains
1/3/2024	DOE National Definition for a Zero Emissions Building: Part 1 Operating	Response deadline February 5, 2024	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.	N/A	Building decarbonization Zero emissions building Embodied carbon
12/28/2023	DOE Carbon Basin Assessment and Storage Evaluation (CarbonBASE)	Response deadline February 2, 2024	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.	N/A	Carbon basin Carbon storage Carbon capture and storage (CCS) Cardon dioxide reduction (CDR) CO2 storage sites
12/20/2023	DOE Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Based Turbomachinery for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Plants	Response deadline February 20, 2024	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: Category A: sCO2 Turbomachinery Sub-Component De-Risking Category B: sCO2 Turbomachinery Market	N/A	Supercritical carbon dioxide sCO2 Turbomachinery Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants Long duration thermal energy storage (TES)
12/12/2023	DOE High-Efficiency Gasification for Clean Hydrogen Production	Response deadline February 12, 2024	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.	N/A	Gasification Clean hydrogen production Alternative, low-value feedstocks Carbon capture Carbon emissions Biomass feedstocks Mixed waste feedstocks Syngas
11/28/2023	High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Deconversion	Response deadline January 30, 2024	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. 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
11/17/2023	DOE Progression to Net-Zero Emissions Propulsion Technologies for the Rail Sector	Response deadline February 12, 2024	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.	N/A	Rail sector Rail propulsion technologies Rail decarbonization Alternative fuels trajectory Internal combustion engine (ICE) Hydrogen fuel cells Direct electrification
11/8/2023	DOE Challenges and Opportunities at the Interface of Wind Energy and Radar Technology	Response deadline January 12, 2024	Seeks input to inform DOE’s implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), including: Siting challenges of wind energy developers related to radar interference (Category 1) 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) 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) BIL Provisions and Requirements and Buy America Requirements (Categories 5 and 7) 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)	N/A	Wind energy and turbines Radar technology Wind turbine-radar interference
11/2/2023	DOE Biological Approaches for Developing a New Nitrogen Cycle in Agriculture for Bioenergy Crops	Response deadline November 27, 2023	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: 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. Reducing soil-based N2O emissions in growing these crops by altering the microbial N-cycle either through microbial and/or plant approaches.	N/A	Nitrogen inputs Soil-based greenhouse gas emissions Nitrous oxide Bioenergy crops Corn, soybean, sorghum ARPA-E
10/23/2023	DOE Grid Integration of Solar Energy Systems and Other Inverter-Based Resources	Response deadline December 15, 2023	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: System Planning for High IBR and DER Futures System Operation for High IBR and DER Futures System Resilience for High IBR and DER Futures Cybersecurity for High IBR and DER Futures Enabling Technologies for High IBR and DER Futures – Power Electronics, Communication, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning Other Emerging Topics for High IBR and DER Futures	N/A	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)
10/23/2023	DOE Transmission System Interconnection Roadmap Draft	Response deadline November 22, 2023	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.	N/A	Transmission system Interconnection Bulk power system Electric grid
9/21/2023	Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge: Building Supply Chains	Response deadline November 2, 2023	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.	N/A	Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) SAF Grand Challenge Supply chains Feedstock production Feedstock collection Feedstock distribution Infrastructure Feedstock to fuel Aircraft
8/7/2023	DOE Development of Green Shipping Corridors Between the United States and the United Kingdom	FOA issue undetermined	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.	N/A	Green shipping corridors Cargo Ports Marine Fuel Terminal
8/1/2023	Meta Investing in Value Chain Emissions Reduction Projects	Mandatory mutual NDA: September 14, 2023 Application deadline: November 10, 2023	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.	Up to $5M per project	Trucking Aviation Maritime Cement Concrete Copper Steel Manufacturing Semiconductor Heating and cooling Commercial Industrial Production Green hydrogen Hard-to-abate

Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) Updated Through July 23, 2024

Published	Program Title	Deadline	Summary	Funding Amount	Interest Areas
7/22/2024	DOE Connected Communities 2.0: Innovations to Manage Growing Transportation, Building, and Industrial Loads to the Grid	Concept paper submission deadline August 20, 2024 Full application submission deadline October 10, 2024	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: 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 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)
7/18/2024	DOE Smart Manufacturing Technologies for Material and Process Innovation	Concept paper submission deadline August 22, 2024 Full application submission deadline November 18, 2024	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: Show the benefits of incorporating smart manufacturing in areas aligned with the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office’s (AMMTO) mission; and To provide practical experience which will be used to further refine AMMTO’s smart manufacturing strategy and future R&D direction. Topic Areas include: Smart Manufacturing for a Circular Economy Smart Manufacturing of Tooling and Equipment for Sustainable Transportation Smart Manufacturing for High Performance Materials 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
7/16/2024	DOE ARPA-E Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON) SBIR/STTR	Concept paper submission deadline August 16, 2024 Full application submission deadline TBD	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: Category A – Improved Efficiency and Reliability of Particle Generation and Acceleration Category B – Transmutation Targets 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
7/16/2024	DOE ARPA-E Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now (NEWTON)	Concept paper submission deadline August 16, 2024 Full application submission deadline TBD	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: Category A – Improved Efficiency and Reliability of Particle Generation and Acceleration Category B – Transmutation Targets 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
7/11/2024	DOE ARPA-E Technologies to Emend and Obviate Synthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions SBIR/STTR (Teosynte SBIR/STTR)	Concept paper submission deadline August 13, 2024 Full application submission deadline TBD	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)
7/11/2024	DOE ARPA-E Technologies to Emend and Obviate Synthetic Nitrogen’s Toll on Emissions (Teosynte)	Concept paper submission deadline August 13, 2024 Full application submission deadline TBD	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)
6/27/2024	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Clean Fuels & Products Shot: Supporting Carbon Utilization Products via Electrochemical Conversion and Refinery Retrofitting	Full application submission deadline August 27, 2024	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: Engineering-Scale Testing of Electrochemical Systems for the Conversion CO2 into Value-Added Products 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
6/21/2024	DOE & EPA Inflation Reduction Act (IRA): Methane Emissions Reduction Program Oil and Gas Methane Monitoring and Mitigation	Full application submission deadline August 26, 2024	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: Methane Emissions Reduction from Existing Wells and Infrastructure Reducing Methane Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells Reducing Methane Emissions from Small Operators’ Wells and Other Oil and Natural Gas Assets Reducing Methane Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells and Oil and Gas Assets on Tribal Lands Accelerating Deployment of Methane Emissions Reduction Solutions Field Deployment of Engine and Compressor Methane Reduction Technologies Field Deployment of Gas Flaring Reduction Technologies Field Deployment of Emissions Reduction Technologies at Oil and Gas Production Facilities Accelerating Deployment of Methane Emissions Monitoring Solutions Improving Access to Monitoring Data for Impacted Communities 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
6/12/2024	DOE Geothermal Resources’ Value In Implementing Decarbonization (GRID)	Letter of intent submission deadline July 24, 2024 Full application submission deadline September 9, 2024	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: Value of Geothermal Power	$7M in total funding Approximately 1-14 awards	Geothermal power Energy grid
6/6/2024	DOE Fiscal Year 2024 Solar Energy Supply Chain Incubator FOA	Concept paper submission deadline July 19, 2024 Full application submission deadline October 7, 2024	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: Solar Research and Technology Development Solar Technology Demonstration 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
5/28/2024	DOE Solar Technologies’ Rapid Integration and Validation for Energy Systems (STRIVES)	Concept paper submission deadline July 25, 2024 Full application submission deadline October 17, 2024	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: Robust Experimentation and Advanced Learning for DSOs 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)
5/22/2024	DOE ARPA-E Vision OPEN 2024	Concept paper submission deadline July 16, 2024 Full application submission deadline TBD	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: GHG-free abundant primary energy Rapid deployment Transformative Advances An intermodal energy superhighway that transports diversified forms of primary energy Novel and Efficient Energy Transport Systems Energy Delivery Optimization Through Intelligent Systems A carbon transition that sustainably meets demand for polymers and other materials Living Refineries Refinery Transformation Carbon Allotrope Manufacture and Utilization Scalable Polymer Design and Deconstruction	$150M in total funding	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
5/20/2024	DOE Fiscal Year 2025 Consolidated Innovative Nuclear Research (CINR)	Full application submission deadline November 13, 2024	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: U.S. University-led R&D Projects and NSUF Access with R&D (NSUF-1) Projects 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
5/2/2024	DOE Photovoltaics Research and Development (PVRD) FOA 2024	Letter of intent submission deadline June 12, 2024 Concept paper submission deadline July 1, 2024 Full application submission deadline September 16, 2024	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: Photovoltaic Advances in Cell Efficiency, Reliability, and Supply Chain (PACERS) 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
5/1/2024	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) Program: Future Growth Grants (Section 40304)	Letter of intent submission deadline August 15, 2024 Full application submission deadline September 30, 2024	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
4/25/2024	DOE WASTE: Waste Analysis and Strategies for Transportation End-uses	Concept paper submission deadline June 20, 2024 Full application submission deadline August 14, 2024	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: Feasibility Study Development 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
4/16/2024	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Communities Taking Charge Accelerator	Concept paper submission deadline May 20, 2024 Full application submission deadline July 16, 2024	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: Solving for No-Home Charging: Expanding Charging Access for Privately Owned E-Mobility Expanding E-Mobility Solutions through Electrified Micro, Light and Medium-Duty Fleets Managed Charging for Clean Reliable Energy	$54M in total funding Approximately 14-41 awards	Electric vehicles (EVs) EV charging
4/10/2024	DOE MACRO: Mixed Algae Conversion Research Opportunity	Concept paper submission deadline May 10, 2024 Full application submission deadline July 18, 2024	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: Conversion of Seaweeds to Low-Carbon Fuels and Bioproducts 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
4/8/2024	EPA Air Quality Information: Making Sense of Air Pollution Data to Inform Decisions in Underserved Communities Overburdened by Air Pollution Exposures	Application submission deadline June 26, 2024	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: Methods and tools for data integration and analysis to characterize community exposures to air pollution in underserved communities. 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
4/4/2024	DOE Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power	Concept paper submission deadline May 16, 2024 Full application submission deadline August 8, 2024	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: Scalable Concentrating Solar Collectors Scalable Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) Turbomachinery 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
4/4/2024	DOE Regional Scale Collaboration to Facilitate a Domestic Critical Minerals Future: Carbon Ore, Rare Earth, and Critical Minerals (CORE-CM) Initiative	Full application submission deadline June 24, 2024	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
4/4/2024	DOE FY2024 Vehicle Technologies Office Research & Development Funding Opportunity Announcement	Concept paper submission deadline May 2, 2024 Full application submission deadline June 24, 2024	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: Increase the energy density of battery cells containing phosphate-based cathodes Development of innovative technologies capable of significantly decreasing greenhouse gases Production and manufacturing of new high-performance E–steels using domestic resources Advancement of state-of-the-art Na-ion batteries Improvement of efficiency and convenience of the mobility-system using V2X Development of planning tools and/or models to identify, quantify, and assess the impact of convenience strategies on regions and/or communities; Addressing vulnerabilities and potential cybersecurity threats posed by the nature of EVs and charging infrastructure integrated with the grid 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: Next Generation Phosphate-Based Cathodes Na-ion Battery Seedling Projects for Electric Vehicle Applications Low GHG Concepts for Off-Road Vehicles Saving Energy with Connectivity Domestically Produced E-Steels 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
3/19/2024	DOE Solar and Wind Interconnection for Future Transmission (SWIFTR)	Concept paper submission deadline April 8, 2024 Full application submission deadline June 24, 2024	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: Topic Area 1: Improved Efficiency of Electromagnetic Transient Simulations for Interconnection Studies of Inverter based Resources Dynamic Stability-Enhanced Network Assessment Tools	$10M in total funding Approximately 2-10 awards	Solar Wind Interconnection Transmission Battery energy
3/12/2024	DOT Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Low-Carbon Transportation Materials Grants Program	Concept paper submission deadline April 8, 2024 Full application submission deadline June 24, 2024	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: Develop specifications for collecting documentation of a materials embodied greenhouse gas emissions Develop or update technical specifications to allow for use of materials, products, and strategies that result in lower embodied carbon materials Establish a process to identify, verify, and use materials with lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions	$2B in total funding	Low-carbon construction materials and products Concrete, cement, glass, asphalt mix, and steel. Embodied greenhouse gas emissions
3/8/2024	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program	Concept paper submission deadline April 8, 2024 Full application submission deadline June 24, 2024	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: AOI 1: Clean Energy Manufacturing and Recycling. The objective of this AOI is to increase domestic manufacturing and recycling capacity for materials, components, and systems needed for the clean energy transition. AOI 2: Industrial Decarbonization 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. Subtopic AOI 2a: Re-equip an existing industrial or manufacturing facility with equipment designed to substantially10 reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of that facility. 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
2/27/2024	DOE Local Government Energy Program: Communities Sparking Investment in Transformative Energy	Full application submission deadline May 31, 2024	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: 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. Spark additional investments in communities that create long-term local economic development opportunities and support community revitalization. Advance community-identified energy priorities and right to self-determination. 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
2/27/2024	DOE Clean Energy Technology Deployment on Tribal Lands	Application submission deadline May 30, 2024	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: Install clean energy generating system(s) and/or energy efficiency measure(s) for Tribal Building(s) (Topic Area 1) Deploy community-scale clean energy generating system(s) or community energy storage on Tribal Lands (Topic Area 2) 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) 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
2/26/2024	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) FY 2024 Phase II Release 2	Letter of Intent submission deadline March 27, 2024 Application submission deadline April 30, 2024	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
2/22/2024	DOE Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Funding for Advanced Biofuels	Concept paper submission deadline March 22, 2024 Full application submission deadline May 24, 2024	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: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefinery Technologies 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
2/20/2024	USDA Rural Energy for America (REAP) Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) Program	Application submission deadline March 15, 2024	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 Agricultural Producers REAP applicants pursuing projects located in disadvantaged or distressed communities Tribal entities REAP Applicants pursuing projects using Underutilized Technologies REAP Applicants pursuing projects under $20,000	$16M in total funding Approximately 32-64 awards	REAP Agricultural producers
2/12/2024	DOE Flexible and Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT)	Full application submission deadline April 12, 2024	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): RD&D for Distribution Transformers 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
2/12/2024	DOE Fiscal Year 2024 VTO Technology Integration (TI) Funding Opportunity Announcement	Concept paper submission deadline March 12, 2024 Full application submission deadline April 30, 2024	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: Clean Cities Outreach, Engagement, and Technical Assistance Training on Zero Emission Vehicle and Infrastructure Technologies for Critical Emergency Response Workers 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
2/12/2024	DOE Carbon Negative Shot Pilots	Full application submission deadline April 16, 2024	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: AOI-1. Small Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS) Pilots AOI-2. Small Mineralization Pilots AOI-3. Multi-Pathways CDR Testbed Facilities 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
2/8/2024	DOE Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose-Grown Energy Crops	Concept paper submission deadline March 14, 2024 Full application submission deadline June 13, 2024	To fund RD&D focused on demonstrating purpose-grown energy crop systems, including algae, at pre-commercial scales. 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: Subtopic Area 1a: Algae Subtopic Area 1b: Herbaceous Energy Crops Subtopic Area 1c: Intermediate Energy Crops 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
1/31/2024	DOE ARPA-E Catalyzing Innovative Research for Circular Use of Long-Lived Advanced Rechargeables (CIRCULAR)	Concept paper submission deadline March 19, 2024 Full application submission deadline TBD	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: Category A seeks innovations in battery cell materials, designs, regeneration methods, and corresponding manufacturing techniques to prolong battery service life including 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 Category C seeks innovations in cell-level sensing, data analytics, and battery intelligence systems for circularity and safety 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
1/30/2024	DOE Combined Wellbore Construction High Temperature Tools and Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage (RTES)	Letter of intent deadline March 1, 2024 Full application submission deadline April 1, 2024	This funding opportunity comprises two topic areas with separate objectives and technical focus: Topic Area 1 – High Temperature Tools for Well Integrity Evaluation Seeks to address the availability of downhole cement and casing evaluation tools for use in high temperature and hostile geothermal wellbores. 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. Topic Area 2 – Utilization of Reservoir Thermal Energy Storage Technology and Low-Temperature Geothermal Resources as part of an Industrial Process 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
1/29/2024	DOE Platform Technologies for Transformative Battery Manufacturing	Concept paper submission deadline March 4, 2024 Full application submission deadline May 7, 2024	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: Topic Area 1: Platforms for Next Generation Battery Manufacturing Subtopic 1.1: Processes and Machines for Sodium-Ion Batteries Subtopic 1.2: Processes and Design for Manufacturability of Flow Batteries Subtopic 1.3: Scalable Manufacturing of Nanolayered Films for Energy Storage 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
1/25/2024	DOE FY24 Energy- and Emissions-Intensive Industries	Concept paper submission deadline March 19, 2024 Full application submission deadline June 11, 2024	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: Topic Area 1: Decarbonizing Chemicals & Fuels Area of Interest 1 – Advanced Process Technologies to Convert Sustainable Feedstocks to Hydrocarbon Chemicals & Fuels Area of Interest 2 – Advanced Processes for Production of Non-hydrocarbon Products Area of Interest 3 – Chemicals Value Chain Decarbonization Topic Area 2: Decarbonizing Iron and Steel Area of Interest 1—Alternative Iron Making Area of Interest 2 – Ore improvement Area of Interest 3—Improving steel recyclability through reducing tramp metal contaminants Area of Interest 4—Low-carbon steelmaking Topic Area 3: Decarbonizing Food and Beverage Products Area of Interest 1 – Innovations in Food Packaging Area of Interest 2 – Innovations in Commercial Food Service Area of Interest 3 – Decarbonization of Alternative Protein Production Area of Interest 4 – Energy Input Redistribution in Food and Beverage Processing Area of Interest 5 – Reduction of Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions during Post-Harvesting Activities Topic Area 4: Decarbonizing Building and Infrastructure Materials – Cement and Concrete, Asphalt, and Glass Area of Interest 1 – Novel cement formulations in combination with alternative Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) Area of Interest 2 – Novel Lime/Portland Cement Production Processes Area of interest 3 – Low-Carbon Asphalt pavement Areas of Interest 4 – Glass Decarbonization Topic Area 5: Decarbonizing Forest Products Area of Interest 1 – Novel Dewatering and Drying Technologies Area of Interest 2 – Innovative Fiber Preparation, Pulping, and Chemical Recovery Processes Topic Area 6: Innovative Industrial Pre-FEED Studies Area of Interest 1 – Integration of Clean Hydrogen in the Industrial Sector Area of Interest 2 – Carbon Capture for the Industrial Sector 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
1/22/2024	DOE Energy Frontier Research Centers	Pre-application submission deadline February 28, 2024 Application submission deadline May 8, 2024	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: Basic Research Needs for Transformative Manufacturing Roundtable on Opportunities for Basic Research for Next-Generation Quantum Systems Basic Research Needs for Environmental Management This FOA solicits new applications for EFRCs that will perform basic science to address the following two topics: Co-design of materials and processes to revolutionize microelectronics and/or QIS fabrication 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
1/18/2024	DOE BIL Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) FY 2024 Phase I Release 2	Letter of intent submission deadline February 2, 2024 Application submission deadline March 12, 2024	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: Energy Systems Cybersecurity Quantum Sensors for Underground Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Radiation Resistant Plastic Encapsulated Microcircuits Artificial Intelligence Autonomous Radiation Sensing and Mapping High-Energy X-Ray Sources for Field Radiography Alternative Radiological Source Technologies Technology for Future Remote Detection Sensing Advanced Grid Technologies Advanced Battery Management and Sensors for Grid-Tied Energy Storage Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office Bioenergy Technologies Building Technologies Geothermal Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Solar Energy Technologies Water Power Technologies Offshore Wind Environmental Monitoring Technology Development Energy Storage for Wind Vehicle Technologies Office Carbon Capture, Conversion, and Storage Carbon Dioxide Removal Hydrogen Technologies Critical Minerals and Materials Applications Carbon Ore Processing Advanced Remediation Technologies Advanced Technologies for Nuclear Energy 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
1/18/2024	DOE Small Innovative Projects in Solar: Concentrating Solar Power and Photovoltaics (SIPS: CSP & PV) – Annual	Full application submission deadline March 6, 2024	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: Topic Area 1: SIPS: CSP Heliostat technology development Particle transport technology development Distributed scale SIPH Hybrid CSP energy systems CSGP control system innovation Technology and analysis impacting CSP soft costs Topic Areas 2: SIPS: PV Mitigating performance losses in silicon and cadmium telluride (CdTe) PV modules Photovoltaics and storage Utility-scale PV installation, commissioning, and design for resilience Advanced stable perovskite cell architectures and interfaces, module integration, and quality control 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)
1/18/2024	DOE Distribution Communication and Control Technologies Research, Development, and Demonstration	Full application submission deadline March 18, 2024	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
1/16/2024	DOE Marine Energy Foundation R&D	Concept paper submission deadline February 20, 2024 Full application submissions deadline April 22, 2024	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: Topic Area 1: Publicly Available Marine Energy Data Analysis & Test Platform(s) to Produce Publicly Available Data Subtopic 1a: LCOE Reduction Pathway Analysis Subtopic 1b: Leveraging Existing Marine Energy Test Platform(s) to Produce Publicly Available Data Subtopic 1c: Design and Fabricate Wave Energy Test Platform(s) to Produce Publicly Available Data Topic Area 2: Sustainable & Scalable Offshore Wind, Marine Energy, and Aquaculture Subtopic 2a: Feasibility of Floating Offshore Wind Energy and Aquaculture Co-Location Subtopic 2b: Integration and Co-location of Marine Energy and Aquaculture Topic Area 3: Undergraduate Senior Design and/or Research Project 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)
1/4/2024	DOE All Hazards Energy Resilience	Application submission deadline March 4, 2024	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: Electricity generation, transmission, or distribution (including renewables, energy management systems, and electric vehicles, etc.) Oil and natural gas production, refining, storage, or distribution Topic areas include: Operate Through Compromise Adaptable Zero-Trust Architecture RD&D of Risk Management Tools and Technologies for Natural Hazards RD&D of Tools and Technologies for Energy Infrastructure Resilience to Wildfires Physical Security Improvements for Utility Power Substations 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
12/18/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) FY23 Electric Drive Vehicle Battery Recycling and Second Life Applications	Concept paper submission deadline February 7, 2024 Full application submission deadline April 19, 2024	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: Improving the economics of transportation, dismantling, and preprocessing of electric drive vehicle batteries 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
12/18/2023	DOE Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) (Section 50131) Assistance for the Adoption of the Latest and Zero Building Energy Codes	Concept paper submission deadline February 9, 2024 Full application submission deadline April 30, 2024	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: Adoption and Implementation of Qualifying Building Energy Codes by Certain Units of Local Government 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 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
12/15/2023	DOE Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office FOA to Advance the National Clean Hydrogen Strategy	Concept paper submission deadline January 26, 2024 Full application submission deadline March 22, 2024	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: Topic 1: Components for Hydrogen Fueling of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles Topic 2: Standardized Hydrogen Refueling Station of the Future Topic 3: Enabling Permitting and Safety for Hydrogen Deployment 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
12/14/2023	Solar Energy Evolution and Diffusion Studies 4 (SEEDS 4)	Concept paper submission deadline January 30, 2024 Full application submission deadline March 15, 2024	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: Community Acceptance and Opposition Permitting and Land Use Planning Processes and Outcomes Community Impact Evaluation	$7M in total funding Approximately 4-6 awards	Solar energy Large-scale solar (LSS) Permitting and land use Community impact evaluation
12/13/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Storage, Validation and Testing (Section 40305): Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE): Phases II, III, III.3, and IV	Application submission deadline February 20, 2024	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: CarbonSAFE Phase III: Site Characterization and Permitting CarbonSAFE Phase III.5: NEPA, FEED Studies, and Storage Field Development Plan Only CarbonSAFE Phase IV: Construction 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
12/12/2023	DOE Grid-free Renewable Energy Enabling New Ways to Economical Liquid and Long-term Storage (GREENWELLS)	Concept paper submission deadline January 25, 2024 Full application submission deadline to be determined	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: Enable the transportation and storage of renewable energy Are suitable as-is or with upgrading for use in the difficult-to-decarbonize sectors 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
12/12/2023	DOE Grid-Enhancing Data Analytics Demonstrations for Operations, Monitoring and Control	Concept paper submission deadline January 23, 2024 Full application submission deadline April 4, 2024	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: Demonstration of applications utilizing existing AMI data Demonstration utilizing high fidelity synchronized measurement for grid stability monitoring and control 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
12/7/2023	DOE Bioimaging Research Approaches for the Bioeconomy & the Environment	Pre-Application submission deadline January 9, 2024 Application submission deadline March 5, 2024	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: Novel research concepts proceeding through technical validation that are not required to evaluate new biological hypotheses. Innovative experimental prototype research proceeding through hypothesis-driven biological experimentation	$15M in total funding Approximately 6-8 awards	Bioiomaging Bioeconomy Sensing Technologies Biological
12/1/2023	DOE Regional Initiative for Technical Assistance Partnerships (RITAP)	Application submission deadline January 30, 2024	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: Valuable public information resources for project developers. 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
11/22/2023	DOE Critical Minerals Accelerator	Concept paper submission deadline January 5, 2024 Full application submission deadline March 22, 2024	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: Topic 1 – Use of Magnets with Reduced Critical Materials Content Topic 2 – Improved Unit Operations of Processing and Manufacturing of Critical Materials Topic 3 – Critical Material Recovery from Scrap and Post-Consumer Products 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
11/17/2023	DOE Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office (IEDO) Fiscal Year 2024 Cross-Sector Technologies FOA	Concept paper submissions deadline December 18, 2023 Full application submission deadline March 20, 2024	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: Electrification of Industrial Heat Efficient Energy Use in Industrial Systems 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
11/16/2023	DOE Strategies to Increase Hydropower Flexibility	Concept paper submission deadline January 18, 2024 Full application submission deadline April 11, 2024	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
11/13/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP)	Concept paper submission deadline for Topic Areas 1, 2, 3: January 12, 2024 Full application submission deadline for Topic Areas 1 & 2: April 17, 2024 Full application submission deadline for Topic Area 3: May 22, 2024	The GRIP program will: 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 Prioritize energy justice as an essential component of infrastructure development by dramatically altering the relationship between energy providers and their communities. Catalyze and leverage private sector and non-federal public capital for impactful technology and infrastructure deployment Topic areas include: Topic Area 1: Grid Resilience Grants (40101(c)) Topic Area 2: Smart Grid Grants (40107) 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
11/9/2023	DOE Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024 (IGNITE 2024)	Concept paper submission deadline January 5, 2024	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: Grid Transportation Buildings & Construction Electricity Generation and Storage Carbon Capture, Sequestration, and Utilization Industrial Efficiency & Decarbonization Other Energy Technologies	$10M in total funding Approximately 20 awards	Energy technologies Research Early-career scientist ARPA-E
11/9/2023	DOE Spurring Projects to Advance Energy Research and Knowledge Swiftly (SPARKS)	Open continuously	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
11/6/2023	DOE Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) – 2024	Concept paper submission deadline December 18, 2023 Full application submission deadline March 5, 2024	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: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning and Water Heating Innovative, Replicable, and Low-Cost Roof and Attic Retrofits Building Resilience and Capacity Restraints Commercial Lighting Retrofit Advancements	Up to $30M in funding Approximately 12-26 awards	Building energy efficiency Energy efficiency Building technologies
10/11/2023	DOE Distributed Energy Systems Demonstrations	Concept paper submission deadline December 13, 2023 Full application submission deadline April 15, 2024	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)
9/29/2023	DOE Wholesale Electricity Market Studies and Engagements	Full application deadline January 19, 2024	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
9/29/2023	DOE Installation Noise Reduction and Reliable Moorings for Offshore Wind and Marine Energy	Full application deadline February 29, 2024	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
9/28/2023	DOE Innovative DEsigns for high-performAnce Low-cost HVDC Converters (IDEAL HVDC)	Full application deadline February 5, 2024	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
9/21/2023	DOE Solar-Thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage via Concentrated Solar-Thermal Energy	Full application deadline January 12, 2024	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)
9/21/2023	DOE Carbon Management Round 4	Full application deadline November 20, 2023	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: Biological Pathways Utilizing Algae to Convert Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide to Products 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
9/21/2023	DOE Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Round 3	Submission deadline February 9, 2024	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
9/15/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – Carbon Capture Technology Program, Front-End Engineering Design for Carbon Dioxide Transport	Application deadline November 16, 2023	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
9/13/2023	DOE Enabling a Reduced Carbon Footprint for Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery (CO2-EOR)/Storage Field Tests in Unconventional Reservoirs	Full application deadline December 13, 2023	Invests in research to expand public understanding of: Overall effectiveness of CO2-EOR in unconventional oil reservoirs The possibility of combining EOR and associated CO2 storage in horizontal, hydraulically fractured unconventional oil wells 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
9/12/2023	DOE Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics	Full application deadline December 18, 2023	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
9/12/2023	DOE Clean Hydrogen Production, Storage, Transport and Utilization to Enable a Net-Zero Carbon Economy	Application deadline November 14, 2023	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
9/7/2023	DOE University Turbine Systems Research (UTSR)	Full application deadline December 5, 2023	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: Research to produce knowledge and data to help improve component designs for gas turbines that use hydrogen-containing fuels Development of turbine components that can utilize advanced cooling and advanced materials and manufacturing technologies 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
9/6/2023	BIL 41003c Critical Material Innovation, Efficiency, and Alternatives	Application deadline November 10, 2023	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
9/6/2023	DOE Innovative Technologies to Eliminate Flaring from Oil and Natural Gas Production	Application deadline November 27, 2023	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
8/31/2023	DOE Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants	Concept paper deadline October 2, 2023 Full application deadline December 7, 2023	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
8/31/2023	DOE Community Energy Innovation Prize	Collegiate Track: November 3, 2023 Clean Energy Ecosystem Track: February 2, 2024 Manufacturing Ecosystem Track: February 2, 2024	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.	$7.5M in funding	Clean energy Manufacturing
8/31/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 40207(b) Battery Materials Processing and 40207(c) Battery Manufacturing Grants Round II	Concept paper submission deadline January 9, 2024 Full application submission deadline March 19, 2024	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
8/30/2023	DOE Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Mitigating Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells	Application due September 30, 2023	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.	$350M in formula grant funding	Methane Marginal conventional wells
8/29/2023	DOE Inflation Reduction Act – Transmission Siting and Economic Development Program	Concept paper deadline October 31, 2023	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
8/21/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law – Advanced Processing of Critical Minerals and Materials for Industrial and Manufacturing Applications	Full application deadline October 20, 2023	To advance the processing of rare earth elements and critical minerals for industrial and manufacturing applications. Two topic areas: Advanced process development for production of rare earth metals and co-production of critical minerals and materials from coal-based resources 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

Other Opportunities Updated Through July 23, 2024

Published	Program Title	Deadline	Summary	Funding Amount	Interest Areas
7/16/2024	Meta Value Chain Interventions for Emissions Reductions RFP	Deadline to executive MEta’s mutual NDA August 14, 2024 Deadline to submit RFP response August 15, 2024	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: Trucking Maritime shipping Aviation shipping Production or offtake of low-carbon cement or concrete Production or offtake of low-carbon copper Production or offtake of low-carbon steel Semiconductor manufacturing Heating and cooling of commercial and industrial facilities Production and offtake of green hydrogen To receive the RFP, Meta requires organizaitons to have an executed NDA in Meta’s mutual NDA template.	N/A	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
6/5/2024	DOE Collaboration Opportunity Announcement (COA) for Parties Interested in Partnering with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) under FY 24 Energy and Emissions Intensive Industry FOA	Response deadline June 13, 2024	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.	N/A	Energy and Emissions Intensive Industries FOA Alternative iron making technologies Iron and steel Sodium-based iron ore reduction technology Alkali metal
1/10/2024	NSF Future Manufacturing	Proposal deadline April 11, 2024	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
1/9/2024	NSF Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT)	Planning Grants, Transitional Research Coordination Networks, Workshops deadline April 8, 2024 Project proposals deadline Aprill 22, 2024	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 /ul>
1/6/2024	NSF ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE)	Proposal deadlines vary by topics	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.	N/A	Plasma physics Plasma chemistry Materials science Space science
12/15/2023	USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Programs Foundational and Applied Science Program	Letters of intent and applications deadlines vary by program area	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: Plant health and production and plant products Animal health and production and animal products Food safety, nutrition, and health Bioenergy, natural resources, and environment 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
11/27/2023	Re-X Before Recycling Prize	Phase 1 submission deadline March 12, 2024	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: Phase 1: Identify! – Teams will identify a new or expanded Re-X supply chain opportunity including its potential community benefits and create a plan. Phase 2: Prepare! – Teams will further advance their idea and plan. 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
11/14/2023	DOE FY24 Technology Commercialization Fund Base Annual Appropriations Core Laboratory Infrastructure for Market Readiness Lab Call	Concept paper submission deadline January 16, 2024 Full application submission deadline March 14, 2024	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
9/29/2023	DOE Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Purchase Pilot Prize	Phase 1 submission deadline December 14, 2023	To provide impactful CDR concept proposals, develop and refine these plans, and ultimately deliver their specified CDR credits. There are four eligible technology pathways: Direct Air Capture Biomass (BiCRS) technologies Enhanced geological weathering and enhanced mineralization technologies 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
9/14/2023	Demand-Side RFP for Independent Entity	Full application deadline October 26, 2023	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
8/31/2023	DOE Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) Loan Program	N/A	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.	$10B in loans	Loan Manufacturing facilities Vehicles Automotive
8/31/2023	DOE Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Technology Commercialization Fund Voucher Program	Application closes on September 26, 2023	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