Infrastructure Law Grants
Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Funding Opportunity Announcement ($3.1B)
Jul 01 2022
- Description: The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) are issuing a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing Funding Opportunity Announcement. The FOA supports the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL) goals of delivering more clean energy, create new, good-paying jobs and lowering costs for American families and workers by guiding the Nation towards a one hundred percent carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 and net-zero economy by 2050.
- Eligible Applicants: Unrestricted
- Application Deadline: July 1, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- Description: This section will provide grants to install and operate advanced transportation technologies that will improve safety, mobility, intermodal connections, and performance.
- Eligible Applicants: Unrestricted Eligablity
- Application Deadline: June 16, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or learn more about the opportunity, CLICK HERE
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Transmission Facilitation Program ($2.5B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: A $2.5B revolving fund to facilitate the construction of high capacity new, replacement, or upgraded transmission lines.12 This program will prioritize projects that improve resilience and reliability of the grid, facilitate inter-regional transfer of electricity, lower electric sector greenhouse gas emissions, and use advanced technology. DOE is authorized to do so through three separate tools
- Eligible Applicants: TBD
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Hydropower Capital Improvements ($553.6M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Solar Energy Demonstration Projects ($80M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Carbon Storage Validation and Testing ($2.5B)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Rural and Municipal Utility Advanced Cybersecurity Grant and Technical Assistance Program ($250M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Battery Material Processing Grant Program ($3B)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Direct Air Capture Hubs ($3.5B)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Career Skills Training ($10M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (CIFIA) Program ($2.1B)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Grant Program for Processing of Critical Minerals and Development of Critical Mineral and Metals ($400M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Geothermal Energy Demonstration Projects ($84M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: CLICK HERE.
Hydroelectric Production Incentives ($125M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Brownfields Competitive Grant Program ($1.2B)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: The IIJA provides significant investment into the Brownfields program to help communities, States, Tribes and others to assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse contaminated properties.
- Eligible Applicants: State, local, and tribal government entities as well as nonprofit organizations.
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
National Marine Energy Centers ($40M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: For hydropower and marine energy and National Marine Energy Centers.
- Eligible Applicants: Institutions of higher education (or consortia thereof)
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Wind Energy Demonstration Projects ($100M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies Grant Program ($250M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Energy Efficiency Materials Pilot Program ($50M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Award grants to provide nonprofit buildings with materials to improve their energy efficiency.
- Eligible Applicants: Non-profit organizations
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: TBD
- Eligible Applicants: Battery producers: manufacturers and sellers
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- Description: Provides support for supplemental hardening activities to reduce risks of power lines causing wildfires, and the likelihood and consequence of impacts to the electric grid due to extreme weather, wildfires, and natural disasters.
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Clean Hydrogen Hubs ($8B)
Jan 01 2000
- 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: March 8, 2022
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding, or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis Program ($1B)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: To apply for funding or to learn more about the program, CLICK HERE
Energy Auditor Training Grant Program ($40M)
Jan 01 2000
- 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
- Apply or Learn More: TBD
State Manufacturing Leadership ($50M)
Jan 01 2000
- Description: Provides funding to states to invest in smart manufacturing technologies.
- Eligible Applicants: States
- Application Deadline: TBD
- Apply or Learn More: TBD