Funding Notice: Carbon Management

Office: Carbon Management
FOA number: DE-FOA-0002614
Download the full funding opportunity: FedConnect
Funding Amount: $54.4 million

Background Information

On August 13, 2024, U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced it will make up to $54.4 million in additional funding available to advance diverse carbon management approaches that reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution. The funding will support the development of technologies that capture CO₂ from industrial and power generation sources or directly from the atmosphere and transport it either for permanent geologic storage or conversion into valuable products such as fuels and chemicals. The development of these technologies is crucial to advance the nation’s efforts to address climate change and achieve the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants include individuals, institutions of higher education, for- and non-profit organizations, state and local governments, and tribal nations.

Areas of Interest

Round six of this funding opportunity announcement has three areas of interest:

AOI-1. Carbon Conversion Technology

• AOI-1F. Reactive Carbon Capture Approaches for Point Source Capture or Atmospheric Capture with Integrated Conversion to Useful Products 

AOI-3. Point Source Carbon Capture Technology

• AOI-3F. Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies for Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) Power Plants
• AOI-3G. Engineering-Scale Testing of Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies in Portable Systems at Industrial Plants
• AOI-3H-a. Preliminary Front-End Engineering Design Studies (Pre-FEED) for Carbon Capture Systems at Existing (Retrofit) Domestic NGCC Power Plants
• AOI-3H-b. Preliminary Front-End Engineering Design Studies (Pre-FEED) for Carbon Capture Systems at Hydrogen Production Facilities Using Coal, Mixed Coal/Biomass, or Natural Gas Feedstock

AOI-4. Carbon Transport and Storage

• AOI-4A. Enhancing CO2 Transport Infrastructure (ECO2Transport): Pre-FEED Studies for Multimodal CO2 Transfer Facilities

Funding 

DOE expects to make up to 36 awards between $400,000 and $5 million each with a minimum of a 20% cost-sharing from the awardees.

*The DOE share listed under the anticipated individual award size is the maximum amount of DOE funding that can be proposed for each Area of Interest. Applications that propose a DOE share in excess of these limits will not be evaluated. 

**Applicants may propose cost share in excess of 20% which could result in higher total award values than those stated above.

Key Dates

Selectees

On October 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced $29 million for 12 research and development projects to fund two carbon management priorities—the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into environmentally responsible and economically valuable products and the development of lower-cost, highly efficient technologies to capture CO₂ from industrial sources and power plants for permanent storage or conversion. Accelerating the development of these technologies will advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s ambitious climate goals of achieving a carbon-neutral power sector by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and help establish the foundation for a successful carbon capture, storage, and conversion industry in the United States.

Seven projects selected under this funding opportunity will focus on technologies that utilize CO₂ from sources such as industrial and power generation facilities, as well as from legacy CO₂ emissions captured directly from the atmosphere. Each of these projects will produce value-added products while simultaneously reducing CO₂ emissions: 

• Air Protein 
• Kiverdi
• LanzaTech Inc. 
• Auburn University 
• Quasar Energy Group LLC 
• TDA Research Inc.
• Washington University in St. Louis

Five projects will focus on development and testing of enabling technologies such as engineering and advanced process control approaches to address non-greenhouse gas emissions in the context of carbon capture. Specifically, these projects will seek to develop technologies that enable scale-up testing and demonstrations of carbon capture systems and assure their responsible deployment:

• American Air Liquide Inc. 
• InnoSepra LLC 
• RTI International 
• University of Kentucky Research Foundation 
• University of Kentucky Research Foundation 

Additional Information

• Download the full funding opportunity on FedConnect.
• All applicants must register and apply on Grants.gov and submit questions through FedConnect

Last Updated: October 9, 2024