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
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- Rare earth elements
- Critical minerals
- Industrial
- Manufacturing
- Coal
- Coal-based
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8/29/2023 | DOE Inflation Reduction Act - Transmission Siting and Economic Development Program | Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 10/31/2023 |
- 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
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8/30/2023 | DOE Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Mitigating Emissions from Marginal Conventional Wells | Application due 9/30/2023 |
- 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
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8/31/2023 | DOE Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants | Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 10/2/2023
Full Application Submission Deadline: 12/7/2023 |
- 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
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- Electric vehicles
- Hybrid
- Hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles
- Light duty
- Medium duty
- Heavy duty
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8/31/2023 | DOE Community Energy Innovation Prize | Collegiate Track: 11/3/2023
Clean Energy Ecosystem Track: 2/2/2024
Manufacturing Ecosystem Track: 2/2/2024 |
- 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
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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
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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 expected awards
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- Flare
- Venting
- Natural gas
- Upstream
- Oil
- Processing
- Separation
- Wellhead
- Sustainable chemical
- Low-carbon marketable products
- Methane
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