Department of Energy

Department of Energy

Preventing Outages and Enhancing the Resilience of the Electric Grid Program ($2.5B) 

  • Description: Provides support for activities that reduce the likelihood and consequence of impacts to the electric grid due extreme weather, wildfire, and natural disaster.
  • Eligible applicants: An electric grid operator, electricity storage operator, electricity generator, transmission owner or operator, distribution provider, fuel supplier, and other relevant entities as determined by DOE.
  • Application Deadline: TBD
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Energy Infrastructure Federal Financial Assistance Program ($5B) 

  • Description: To provide federal financial assistance to demonstrate innovative approaches to transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure to harden resilience and reliability and to demonstrate new approaches to enhance regional grid resilience, implemented through States by public and publicly regulated entities on a cost-shared basis.
  • Eligible applicants: States, Tribes, local governments, or a public utility commission.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Energy Improvement in Rural or Remote Areas Program (1B) 

  • Description: Provides federal financial assistance to improve resilience, safety, and reliability and environmental protection in rural or remote areas.
  • Eligible applicants: Cities, towns, or unincorporated areas of 10,000 inhabitants or less.
  • Application Deadline: TBD 

 

Smart Grid Investment Matching Grant Program (3B) 

  • Description: Provides grants to provide flexibility and help quickly rebalance the electrical system, facilitate the aggregation or integration of distributed energy resources, provide energy storage to meet fluctuating, provide voltage support, integrate intermittent generation sources, increase the network’s operational transfer capacity, and anticipate and mitigate impacts of extreme weather events or natural disasters on grid resilience.
  • Eligible applicants: Utilities and other power sector entities. 
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Transmission Facilitation Program ($2.5B) 

  • Description: For DOE to help develop nationally significant transmission lines, increase resilience by connecting regions of the country, and contribute to goals to lower electricity sector greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Eligible applicants: Utilities or other transmission developers.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program ($250M) 

  • Description: Provides grants and technical assistance for utilities to detect, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats.
  • Eligible applicants: Rural electric cooperatives, public utilities, or small utilities
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) Program ($2.1B) 

  • Description: Provide flexible, low-interest loans for CO2 transport infrastructure projects and grants for initial excess capacity on new infrastructure to facilitate future growth. CIFIA will help facilitate private sector investment in CO2 infrastructure.
  • Eligible applicants: "Common carrier," transportation infrastructure operator or owner that provides public transportation services for a fee.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Carbon Storage Validation and Testing ($2.5B) 

  • Description: Expands DOE’s Carbon Storage Validation and Testing program to include large-scale commercialization of new or expanded carbon sequestration projects and associated carbon dioxide transport infrastructure.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of carbon sequestration projects, including those developing projects with substantial carbon dioxide storage capacity and those that will store carbon dioxide from multiple carbon capture facilities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Direct Air Capture Hubs ($3.5B) 

  • Description: Supports projects that contribute to the development of four regional direct air capture hubs.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of Direct Air Capture projects that can develop regional Direct Air Capture hubs, including carbon dioxide off-takers, connective carbon dioxide transport infrastructure, subsurface resources and sequestration infrastructure.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Clean Hydrogen Hubs ($8B) 

  • Description: Provides funding for projects that contribute to the development of at least four clean hydrogen hubs.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of clean hydrogen projects that can demonstrate the production, transport and end-use of clean hydrogen across all relevant sectors.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Clean Hydrogen Manufacturing & Recycling Program ($500M) 

  • Description: Provides funding for research, development and demonstration projects to advance new clean hydrogen production, processing, delivery, storage and end-use equipment manufacturing technologies and techniques.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of clean hydrogen manufacturing technologies including those that operate in partnership with tribal energy development organizations, Indian Tribes, Tribal Organizations, Native Hawaiian community-based organizations, or territories or freely associated states.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Clean Hydrogen Elecrolysis Program ($1B) 

  • Description: Provides funding for research, development and demonstration projects to reduce the cost of hydrogen produced using electrolyzers.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders and developers of projects that will support the program goals of reducing the cost of hydrogen produced using electrolyzers. 
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land ($500M) 

  • Description: Program to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of carrying out clean energy projects on current and former mine land in a compatible manner with any existing operations.
  • Eligible applicants: Technology on current/former mine land site with reasonable expectation of commercial viability.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Carbon Capture Large-scale Pilot Projects ($937M) 

  • Description: Carbon capture utilization and storage (or sequestration) refers to the process of capturing carbon dioxide from sources of emissions and either reusing the carbon dioxide or storing it permanently underground. Congress appropriated $937 million for the Department of Energy to fund carbon capture large-scale pilot projects over FY22-FY25.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders, including those partnering with national laboratories, institutions of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, and other appropriate entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program ($2.5B) 

  • Description: TBD
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders, including those partnering with national laboratories, institutions of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, and other appropriate entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Battery Material Processing Grant Program ($3B) 

  • Description: To ensure the US has a viable battery materials processing industry by providing funding for demonstration projects and the construction and/or retooling of battery material processing facilities.
  • Eligible applicants: Industry stakeholders, including those partnering with national laboratories, institutions of higher education, multi-institutional collaborations, and other appropriate entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program ($3B) 

  • Description: To ensure the US has viable battery manufacturing and recycling capabilities by providing funding for demonstration projects and the construction and/or retooling of advanced battery manufacturing and recycling facilities
  • Eligible applicants: Institution of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize Competition (Phase III) ($10M) 

  • Description: Allows the Secretary to continue the Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize and convene a task force on battery producer requirements.
  • Eligible applicants: Institution of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD 

 

Battery Recycling Research, Development, and Demonstration Grants ($60M)

  • Description: Provide grants for battery recycling research, development and demonstration, states and units of local government to assist in the establishment or enhancement of State battery collection, recycling, and reprocessing programs and retailers that sell batteries for the implementation or establishment of a system to collect used batteries.
  • Eligible applicants: Battery producers, battery retailers, institution of higher education, National Laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Programs to assist in the establishment or enhancement of State battery collection, recycling, and reprocessing ($50M) 

  • Description: TBD
  • Eligible applicants: Battery producers: manufacturers and sellers
  • Application Deadline: TBD 

 

Battery Recycling and Second-lift Applications Program ($200M) 

  • Description: Expands an existing program at the Department of Energy for research, development, and demonstration of electric vehicle battery recycling and second-life applications for vehicle batteries.
  • Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit and for-profit private entities, state and local governments, consortia of these entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Grant Program for Processing of Critical Minerals and Development of Critical Mineral and Metals ($400M) 

  • Description: Establishes a critical mineral mining, recycling, and reclamation research and development grant program within the Department of Energy; establishes a Critical Minerals Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council to coordinate science and technology efforts on critical minerals including recycling and substitute materials; and establishes a Department of Energy grant program for pilot projects that process, recycle, or develop critical minerals
  • Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, national laboratories, nonprofit entities, consortia of these entities.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Hydroelectric Production Incentives ($125M) 

  • Description: Provides additional funding for section 242 incentives for non-federal hydropower electricity production, including from hydropower facilities that have come online between 2005 and the passage of the IIJA.
  • Eligible applicants: Non-federal hydropower operators with less than 20MW capacity.
  • Application Deadline: TBD 

 

Hydroelectric Efficiency Improvement Incentives ($75M) 

  • Description: Provides additional funding for section 243 payments for non-federal hydropower efficiency improvements, and raises the amount of a project that can be covered from 10% to 30%.
  • Eligible applicants: Non-federal hydropower operators.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Hydropower Capital Improvements ($553.6M) 

  • Description: Provides payments to qualified non-federal hydropower operators for capital improvements to enhance a facility’s grid resiliency assets, improve dam safety, and make environmental upgrades.
  • Eligible applicants: Non-federal hydropower operators.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Energy Auditor Training Grant Program ($40M) 

  • Description: Provides grants to States to train individuals to conduct energy audits or surveys of commercial and residential buildings.
  • Eligible applicants: States
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Cost-Effective Codes Implementation for Efficiency and Resilience ($225M)

  • Description: Provides grants to States to enable cost-effective implementation of updated building energy codes.
  • Eligible applicants: Relevant state agencies; partnerships between state agencies and: local building code agencies, codes and standards developers, associations of builders and design and construction professionals, local and utility energy efficiency programs, consumer/efficiency/environmental advocates, and others
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Building, Training, and Assessment Centers ($10M) 

  • Description: Provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to educate and train building technicians and engineers on implementing modern building technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, tribal colleges or universities
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Career Skills Training ($10M) 

  • Description: Provides grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers to educate and train building technicians and engineers on implementing modern building technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: Nonprofit partnerships
  • Application Deadline: TBD 

 

Future of Industry Program and Industrial Research and Assessment Centers ($550M) 

  • Description: Provides funding for institutions of higher education-based industrial research and assessment centers to identify opportunities for optimizing energy efficiency and environmental performance at manufacturing and other industrial facilities, and provides grants to small- and medium-sized manufacturers to make energy efficiency and clean energy improvements at their facilities.
  • Eligible applicants: Small- or medium-sized manufacturers having received an energy assessment.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

State Manufacturing Leadership ($50M) 

  • Description: Provides funding to states to invest in smart manufacturing technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: States
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Grants for Energy Efficiency Improvements and Renewable Energy Improvements at Public School Facilities ($500M) 

  • Description: Allows the Secretary to award competitive grants to make energy efficiency, renewable energy, and alternative fueled vehicle upgrades and improvements at public schools.
  • Eligible applicants: Consortia of: education agencies, schools, nonprofit and for-profit organizations, community partners.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Energy Efficiency Materials Pilot Program ($50M) 

  • Description: Award grants to provide nonprofit buildings with materials to improve their energy efficiency.
  • Eligible applicants: Non-profit organizations
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies Grant Program ($250M) 

  • Description: Provides funding to the Secretary to issue grants to other federal agencies and organizations to improve their energy efficiency and invest in renewable energy technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: Federal agencies
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Industrial Emissions Demonstration Projects ($500M) 

  • Description: Provides funding to the eligible entities to develop crosscutting industrial emissions reduction technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: Scientists, institutions of higher education, nongovernmental organizations, National Laboratories, private entities, partnerships or consortia thereof.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Solar Energy Demonstration Projects ($80M) 

  • Description: Provides funding to demonstrate solar energy technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: Scientists, institutions of higher education, nongovernmental organizations, National Laboratories, private entities, partnerships or consortia thereof.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Wind Energy Demonstration Projects ($100M) 

  • Description: Provides funding to demonstrate wind energy technologies.
  • Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education including minority- serving institutions, National Laboratories, Federal research agencies, state research agencies, a research agency associated with a territory or freely associated state, a tribal energy development organization, an Indian tribe, a tribal organization, a Native Hawaiian community-based organization, industrial entities, nonprofit research organizations, or consortia thereof.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

Geothermal Energy Demonstration Projects ($84M) 

  • Description: Provides funding to demonstrate advanced geothermal energy technologies, including at least one demonstration project east of the Mississippi River.
  • Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education, National Laboratories, Federal research agencies, state research agencies, industrial entities, nonprofit research organizations, or consortia thereof.
  • Application Deadline: TBD

 

National Marine Energy Centers ($40M) 

  • Description: For hydropower and marine energy and National Marine Energy Centers.
  • Eligible applicants: Institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof)
  • Application Deadline: TBD