The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is releasing this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to solicit applications in accordance with the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA).
Donor Name: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/21/2023
Size of the Grant: $500M
Grant Duration: 8 – 12 years
Details:
This FOA offers a critical opportunity to solidify a “first-mover” advantage for U.S. industry, bolstering its competitiveness globally for decades into the future. Activities funded under this FOA are further expected to create good-paying jobs for American workers, offer opportunities for broadly shared prosperity in communities, and enable a clean, more equitable future for all Americans.
Demonstrating the technical and commercial viability of industrial decarbonization approaches will promote widespread technology implementation and drive a U.S. edge in low- and net-zero carbon manufacturing while helping to substantiate a market for low-carbon products.
To maximize the transformative potential for these funds, DOE will prioritize a portfolio of projects that offer:
- Deep decarbonization, by demonstrating significantly less carbon-intensive industrial production processes leading to materials that can be labeled as having substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions;
- Timeliness, through rapid technology demonstrations that can address emissions in the near-term, meet funding horizons, and be replicated by fast followers;
- Market viability, with technological approaches designed to spur follow-on investments for widespread decarbonization as well as partnerships between buyers and sellers of the materials produced, with special consideration given to industries that are focusing on shifting entire ecosystems and enabling new market structures for low-carbon products; and
- Community benefits, tailored through substantial engagement with local and regional stakeholders, as well as labor unions and Tribal Nations across the project lifecycle, supporting environmental justice and economic opportunity for local communities.
DOE will apply the following four-phase structure for projects selected under this FOA.
- Phase 1 will encompass initial planning and analysis activities to ensure that the overall concept is technologically and financially viable.
- Phase 2 will finalize engineering designs and business development, site access, labor agreements, National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review, permitting, and offtake agreements.
- Phase 3 will encompass installation, integration, and construction activities.
- Phase 4 will ramp-up to full operations including data collection to analyze the plant’s operations, performance, and financial viability.
Funding Information
- BIL: Near-Net-Zero Facility Build Projects
- Anticipated Minimum Award Size for Any One Individual Award: $100M
- Anticipated Maximum Award Size for Any One Individual Award: $250M
- Anticipated Period of Performance (years): 8 – 12 years
- IRA: Facility-Level Large Installations and Overhaul Retrofit Demonstrations
- Anticipated Minimum Award Size for Any One Individual Award: $75M
- Anticipated Maximum Award Size for Any One Individual Award: $500M
- Anticipated Period of Performance (years): 3 – 7 years
- System Upgrades and Retrofits for Critical Unit Operations or Single Process Lines Within Existing Facilities
- Anticipated Minimum Award Size for Any One Individual Award: $35M
- Anticipated Maximum Award Size for Any One Individual Award: $75M
- Anticipated Period of Performance (years): 3 – 7 years
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- For profit organizations other than small businesses
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Small businesses
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
