Energy Funding Matrix

The objective of the Magnetic Acceleration Generating New Innovations and Tactical Outcomes (MAGNITO) program is to support the discovery, synthesis, and characterization of new, more powerful magnets with either a saturation magnetization or maximum energy product higher than that of any known material. This entails finding entirely new physics, chemistries, and structure for ultra-powerful soft and/or hard magnets. The discovery of Nd2Fe14B, with its complex structural chemistry and extraordinary properties, suggests that other complex magnetic materials with three or more distinct elements, and similar chemical and structural features, are waiting to be discovered. Advances in computational physics that can calculate Bsat, magneto-crystalline anisotropy, and Curie temperature (Tc), as well as computational materials discovery using high-throughput techniques, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), are needed to reveal new materials structures not previously examined and at a pace faster than ever before. The concept paper deadline passed on September 24, 2025. 

The objective of the Magnetic Acceleration Generating New Innovations and Tactical Outcomes (MAGNITO) program is to support the discovery, synthesis, and characterization of new, more powerful magnets with either a saturation magnetization or maximum energy product higher than that of any known material. This entails finding entirely new physics, chemistries, and structure for ultra-powerful soft and/or hard magnets. The discovery of Nd2Fe14B, with its complex structural chemistry and extraordinary properties, suggests that other complex magnetic materials with three or more distinct elements, and similar chemical and structural features, are waiting to be discovered. Advances in computational physics that can calculate Bsat, magneto-crystalline anisotropy, and Curie temperature (Tc), as well as computational materials discovery using high-throughput techniques, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML), are needed to reveal new materials structures not previously examined and at a pace faster than ever before. The concept paper deadline for this opportunity passed on September 24, 2025. 

The ROCKS program seeks fundamentally disruptive technologies to transform the ore deposit characterization process. The program will pursue technology that targets order-of-magnitude improvements in characterization with a primary focus on drilling, sensing, and analysis. These advances will shorten the timeline for feasibility assessments of REE and critical mineral deposits, leading to increased access to these resources. In addition, advances in sensing can aid assessment of currently untapped resources, such as seafloor mineral deposits. The concept paper submission deadline passed on September 25, 2025. 

This funding opportunity provides up to $525 million in federal support across two topic areas, Coal Commissioning, Recommissioning, Retrofitting, and Modernization Projects and Rural Capacity and Energy Affordability.

The ROCKS program seeks fundamentally disruptive technologies to transform the ore deposit characterization process. The program will pursue technology that targets order-of-magnitude improvements in characterization with a primary focus on drilling, sensing, and analysis. These advances will shorten the timeline for feasibility assessments of REE and critical mineral deposits, leading to increased access to these resources. In addition, advances in sensing can aid assessment of currently untapped resources, such as seafloor mineral deposits. The submission deadline for Concept Papers passed on September 25, 2025. 

This NOFO addresses the technology development for U.S. production of byproduct critical materials from coal-based and other industrial streams, including mine waste and other waste streams, to accelerate commercial domestic mineral production. Approximately $275,000,000 total funds available across both topic areas. Topic Area 1: Mines & Metal Pilots - Coal-Based Industry has approximately $75,000,000 available in total for up to 3 awards. Topic Area 2: Mines & Metal Pilots - All Industries has approximately $200,000,000 available for up to 10 awards.

The proving grounds funded under this announcement will serve as critical platforms to reduce the technical and economic risks associated with novel mining technologies to be utilized by government agencies, industrial partners, and academic institutions. By advancing promising technologies through field-scale validation, the program will accelerate pathways to commercialization, thereby supporting secure, sustainable, and responsible U.S. mining operations. There is approximately $80,000,000 available in total funding for up to four awards.

This funding opportunity makes up to $500 million available for projects that will help expand carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation infrastructure across the United States. Accelerating the development and deployment of carbon management technology to capture CO2 emissions from industrial operations and power generation, as well as directly from the atmosphere, requires a safe and reliable system that can transport the captured CO2, either for permanent geologic storage or for conversion to useful, durable products.

Up to $134 million will be available for 1-2 awards to enhance domestic supply chains for rare earth elements (REEs) by demonstrating the commercial viability of methods for domestically refining and recovering REEs from mine tailings, deleterious material, and waste streams. The deadline for a letter of interest is December 10, 2025.

This NOFO is aimed at ensuring reliable, affordable, and secure generation capacity in line with Executive Order 14156, Declaring a National Energy Emergency. There is approximately $100,000,000 available in total funding across three topic areas. Topic Area 1: Development and Implementation of Advanced Wastewater Systems has approximately $50 million for up to 5 awards. Topic Area 2: Engineering and Implementation of Dual Firing Retrofits has approximately $25 million for up to 5 awards. Topic Area 3: Development and Testing of Natural Gas Cofiring Systems has approximately $25 million available for up to 5 awards.

This is a prize, not a grant. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) is launching the American-Made Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize (ESCRAP) $3.95 million in prizes, this three-phase prize is designed to stimulate innovative approaches that reduce the costs and environmental impact of critical material recovery from electronics scrap (e-scrap). Competitors will optimize, validate, and integrate new and improved approaches along the entire recycling value chain to increase the production and use of recovered critical materials. Competitors can win up to $800,000 in cash and $150,000 in national laboratory analysis support. This prize focuses on innovative approaches, processes, or technologies in service of optimizing and implementing critical material separation and recovery from e-scrap.  The deadline for submission for Phase 2 has passed, but Phase 3 will open up on November 12, 2025.
 

This is a prize, not a grant. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO) is launching the American-Made Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize (ESCRAP) $3.95 million in prizes, this three-phase prize is designed to stimulate innovative approaches that reduce the costs and environmental impact of critical material recovery from electronics scrap (e-scrap). Competitors will optimize, validate, and integrate new and improved approaches along the entire recycling value chain to increase the production and use of recovered critical materials. Competitors can win up to $800,000 in cash and $150,000 in national laboratory analysis support. This prize focuses on innovative approaches, processes, or technologies in service of optimizing and implementing critical material separation and recovery from e-scrap.  The deadline for submission for Phase 2 has passed, but Phase 3 will open up on November 12, 2025.
 

The objective of SCALEUP Ready is to support the scaling of high-risk and potentially disruptive new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. SCALEUP Ready seeks to scale the most promising technologies previously funded by ARPA-E. This program focuses only on scaling and pre-pilot projects of promising technologies that ARPA-E has previously funded. A SCALEUP Ready award would substantially build upon innovations achieved under the original ARPA-E award. This opportunity is open continuously until otherwise amended.

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to award multiple cooperative agreements to accredited United States (U.S.) two- and four-year Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to receive and administer scholarship and fellowship funding—provided through the University Nuclear Leadership Program (UNLP) and as administered by the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)—on behalf of selected students attending these U.S. IHEs. The selection of students to receive scholarships and fellowships through the program will occur via a separate NE process. The scholarships and fellowships are focused on two-, four-year, and graduate programs in science and engineering disciplines related to nuclear energy. The opportunity will be open continuously through October 14, 2030.

This program is designed to to provide rebates for qualified extended product systems (i.e., electric motor, electronic control, and driven load). This grant implements section 1005 of the energy efficient transformer rebate program, of the Energy Act of 2020 as authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The funding amount is $10 million. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis.

The objective of this solicitation is to expand access to smart manufacturing technologies and practices and high-performance computing resources for small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms (SMMs). Awards are to state entities, state-funded universities, and state-funded community and technical colleges, for accelerating the use of smart manufacturing by small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms (SMMs) in areas such as training and re-skilling, technical assistance, and direct technology implementation. The funding will allow SMMs to increase production efficiency.

This announcement is purposely broad in scope to encourage the submission of the most innovative ideas in energy technology to support transformative energy R&D that complements ARPA-E’s primary mechanism, which is through the solicitation of research projects in focused technology programs. However, ARPA-E wants to ensure that there are opportunities to support innovative energy R&D in new and emerging fields that either fall outside of the focused technology programs or that develop after those programs have closed. Within this general framework, ARPA-E seeks transformative ideas that enable the most efficient, economical, sustainable, and environmentally benign utilization of energy. The broad objective of this FOA is to identify disruptive concepts in energy-related technologies that challenge the status quo and represent a leap beyond today’s technology. This opportunity is open continuously until otherwise amended.

This Notice of Intent supports DOE’s current vision to secure diverse, resilient, domestic CMM supply chains by expanding the Critical Minerals and Materials Program to fund additional processing research and development (R&D) for the recovery and refining of CMM, as required for critical supply chain use. The intended FOA has four Areas of Interest planned. Area of Interest 1: Coproduction of CMM and Carbon Manufacturing Precursor Materials from Unconventional Coal and Other Carbon-based Feedstocks. Area of Interest 2: Recovery of Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREE) from Secondary and Unconventional Resources. Area of Interest 3: Critical Mineral Recovery from Produced Water. Area of Interest 4: Process Diversification: Production of Rare Earth Elements from Secondary/Unconventional Resources and Recycled Materials. The FOA is anticipated to be issued in the third quarter of calendar year 2024, but has not yet been issued.

If issued, this FOA will support BETO’s research and development (R&D) priorities in the Conversion Technologies Program and FECM’s R&D priorities in the Carbon Dioxide Conversion Program. BETO’s Conversion Technologies Program supports R&D in technologies for converting biomass feedstocks into finished liquid transportation fuels—such as renewable gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel along with co-products or chemical intermediates. FECM’s Carbon Dioxide Conversion Program invests in R&D of technologies that convert captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into economically valuable products such as chemicals, fuels, building materials, plastics, and bioproducts. EERE planned to issue the FOA in March 2024, but no FOA has been released yet.

The intended FOA will support building a clean and equitable energy economy and addressing the climate crisis. The FOA will advance the Biden Administration’s goals to achieve carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035. SETO anticipates that the FOA will seek RD&D projects in three topic areas. Technologies in each area may support a variety of concentrating solar-thermal (CST) forms including CSP, SIPH, and high-temperature solar-thermal reactors. Each topic area focuses on scaling and maturing impactful technologies for specified CST subsystems. EERE planned to issue the FOA in March 2024, but no FOA has been released yet.

The intended FOA would seek applications to fill a critical void in the development of multimegawatt wind turbines for offshore deployment. Modern offshore wind turbines are the largest rotating machines ever built by humankind. Existing aerodynamic design tools and analysis methods are not well validated for machines of this scale, placing the cost of development and performance expectations from these designs at significant risk. The FOA would support the necessary data and analysis to validate tools used in the design and development of large wind turbine rotors (>10MW) and facilitate the accelerated development and deployment of cost-effective, reliable offshore wind technology.

This anticipated FOA supports programs that enable entrepreneurship and accelerate water power innovation, business creation, and growth in communities and regions throughout the U.S. Through this FOA, new and/or expanded incubators and accelerators in water power will be able to collaborate with one another and build a stronger water power innovation network in support of accelerating water power technologies to market. EERE planned to issue the FOA in April or May of 2024, but no FOA has been released yet.

This anticipated FOA will 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. EERE planned to issue the FOA in June 2024, but no FOA has been released yet.

The goal of this anticipated FOA is to address several major areas of need for offshore wind. Specifically, WETO intends 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. EERE planned to issue the FOA in the late spring or early summer of 2024 and no FOA has been released yet.

This anticipated FOA consists of one potential area of interest: Grid-integration of High-Power Infrastructure Charging Solutions for Heavy Duty EVs. This anticipated FOA will advance the Biden Administration’s goals to decarbonize transportation and to “deliver an equitable, clean energy future, and put the United States on a path to achieve net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by no later than 2050 to the benefit of all Americans.” The FOA was anticipated to be released in June or July of 2024 and no FOA has been released yet.