Funding Notice: Carbon Negative Shot Pilots

Office: Carbon Management
FOA number: DE-FOA-0003082
Download the full funding opportunity: FedConnect
Funding Amount: $100,000,000

Background Information

On October 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), with DOE’s Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), today announced more than $58.5 million in federal funding for 11 projects to help develop a commercially viable carbon dioxide removal industry in the United States. The funding will support pilot projects and testing facilities to demonstrate and scale carbon dioxide removal technologies that reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution by removing it directly from the atmosphere.

To support an emerging and necessary carbon dioxide removal industry, in 2021 DOE launched the Carbon Negative Shot—the U.S. government’s first major carbon dioxide removal effort. Part of DOE’s larger Energy Earthshots Initiative, the Carbon Negative Shot is a Department-wide call for crosscutting innovation and commercialization of a wide range of carbon dioxide removal technologies and approaches. This Earthshot sets the portfolio-wide goal of reducing the cost of removing CO₂ from the atmosphere to less than $100 per net metric ton of CO₂-equivalent by 2032, together with robust measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification and secure storage. 

This funding opportunity announcement aims to support Carbon Negative Shot objectives across carbon dioxide removal pathways through integrated pilot-scale testing of advanced technologies and detailed monitoring, reporting, and verification protocols.

Selectees

The selected projects will aim to support Carbon Negative Shot objectives across carbon dioxide removal pathways through integrated pilot-scale testing of advanced technologies and detailed monitoring, reporting, and verification protocols.

HFTO will manage the following project that supports small-scale biomass carbon removal and storage technology:

• Mote, Inc. 

DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), under the purview of FECM, will manage the remaining 10 projects. Four of these projects will also support small-scale biomass carbon removal and storage technology: 

• Arbor Energy and Resources Corporation 
• Carba, Inc. 
• Carbon Lockdown Project Benefit LLC 
• Clemson University

Four projects will support enhanced mineralization technologies:

• Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University 
• Eion Corp 
• Lithos Carbon
• Northwestern University

Two projects will support testbed facilities suitable for evaluating, developing, and integrating multiple carbon dioxide removal pathways across different ecosystems, climates, and communities:

• Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University 
• University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center 

A detailed list of the selected projects can be found here.

Key Dates

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 18, 2024