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  DE-FOA-0002936 Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to-Deployment Funding Opportunity Announcement Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Industrial and Heat 4/21/2023 05:00 PM ET 8/11/2023 05:00 PM ET

DE-FOA-0002936: Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to-Deployment Funding Opportunity Announcement

Attention: 07/21/2023 - This Funding Opportunity Announcement has been modified. Please see Mod 000002 in the Announcement Documents section below for full details.

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). When combined with private sector cost share, this FOA represents a more than $12 billion opportunity to catalyze high-impact, large-scale, transformational advanced industrial facilities to significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in energy-intensive industrial subsectors.

U.S. industry is a backbone of the nation’s economy, producing the goods critical to everyday life, employing millions of Americans in high-quality jobs, and providing an economic anchor for thousands of communities. Yet the energy- and carbon-intensity of the sector, which contributes nearly one third of the nation’s primary energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, poses a significant challenge as the economy transitions towards net-zero.

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 expects to award up to approximately 65 projects in high GHG-emitting industries and for cross-cutting technologies as discussed in Section 1.3 of the FOA. DOE anticipates providing awards to teams that are led by a single, for-profit organization or owner/operator of an eligible facility and encourages applicants to strengthen projects by partnering with experts, universities, labor unions, community-based organizations, non-governmental organizations, product off-takers, and/or national laboratories, as outlined in Section 3.0 of the FOA.

Given the transformative potential of these funds, DOE seeks first- or early-of-a-kind commercial-scale projects. These could include new technologies that have been proven at a pilot scale but have yet to be deployed commercially, technologies that are being pursued internationally but do not have a foothold in the U.S., or other early-of-a-kind projects that face market or adoption risks. All projects should incorporate a path from demonstration to deployment that includes sustained operation after completion and substantiate the projects’ ability to meet priority criteria.

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.

NOTE: This FOA solicits plans for all four phases of proposed activities; projects that have completed initial phases will be eligible to undergo accelerated early reviews for due diligence. DOE will work with project performers to tailor their specific approach after selections and anticipates that implementation approaches will vary between projects. All projects selected under this FOA will be eligible to complete all four phases pending successful execution of milestones; DOE is not planning a competitive down-select process among projects after awards. However, to manage risk DOE will regularly review and evaluate projects’ progress on deliverables through Go / No-Go reviews that will occur between or within phases.

Only applicants that have submitted an eligible Concept Paper will be eligible to submit a Full Application.

For information and guidance please visit the OCED Funding page.

Attention: 07/21/2023 - This Funding Opportunity Announcement has been modified. Please see Mod 000002 in the Announcement Documents section below for full details.

Documents

  • DE-FOA-0002936 - Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to-Deployment - Full Funding Opportunity Announcement Mod 000002 (PDF) (Last Updated: 7/21/2023 01:32 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0002936 - Industrial Decarbonization and Emissions Reduction Demonstration-to-Deployment - Full Funding Opportunity Announcement Mod 000002 (Microsoft Word) (Last Updated: 7/21/2023 01:32 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0002936 Community Benefits Plan Guidance (Last Updated: 3/30/2023 12:14 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0002936 Q&A Log - Last updated 08/10/2023 (Last Updated: 8/10/2023 02:52 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0002936 Teaming Partner List - Last updated 05/01/2023 (Last Updated: 5/1/2023 10:25 AM ET)

Application Forms and Templates

The following forms and templates may be used as part of the application submission. Note that these forms and templates do not necessarily constitute all the documents required for a complete application. Please refer to the 'Application and Submission Information' of the published announcement to learn more about the required application content requirements.

Full Application

  • Budget Justification Workbook (Last Updated: 3/6/2023 12:48 PM ET)
  • Appendix D - DE-FOA-0002936 - Mod 000001 (Last Updated: 6/1/2023 05:25 PM ET)
  • LCA Workbook - DE-FOA-0002936 - Mod 000001 (Last Updated: 6/1/2023 05:26 PM ET)
  • TEA Workbook - DE-FOA-0002936 - Mod 000001 (Last Updated: 6/1/2023 05:26 PM ET)

Webinar Details

DOE will conduct one or more informational webinars during the FOA process. Webinar(s) will be held after the initial FOA release but before the due date for the full application.

Attendance is not mandatory and will not positively or negatively impact the overall review of any applicant submissions. As the webinar(s) will be open to all applicants who wish to participate, applicants should refrain from asking questions or communicating information that would reveal confidential and/or proprietary information specific to their project.

The slides and recording of the FOA informational webinar held on March 30, 2023 are available here:

Industrial Demonstrations Program Funding Opportunity Announcement Informational Webinar 2023 - YouTube

06/07/2023: Please see below for the slides and link for the Concept Paper Feedback Webinar held on June 6, 2023.

IDP Concept Paper Feedback Webinar



  • DE-FOA-0002936-Informational Slides - updated 03/21/2023 (Last Updated: 3/31/2023 02:28 PM ET)
  • DE-FOA-0002936-Concept Paper Feedback Informational Slides - updated 06/07/2023 (Last Updated: 6/7/2023 03:33 PM ET)

Contact Information

Submission Deadlines

  • Concept Paper Submission Deadline: 4/21/2023 5:00 PM ET
  • Full Application Submission Deadline: 8/11/2023 5:00 PM ET
  • View Full Application Reviewer Comments Period: 10/31/2023 10:00 AM ET – 11/3/2023 5:00 PM ET