Funding Notice: Energy- and Emissions-Intensive Industries (EEII)

Office: Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office
FOA number: DE-FOA-0003219
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Funding Amount: $136,000,000

Background Information

On January 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) announced more than $136 million for 66 selected projects to support the research and development of transformational technologies essential for reducing energy demand and improving American productivity in key industrial subsectors. These investments will accelerate the development of innovative technologies to ensure the resilience and competitiveness of U.S. industrial supply chains in rapidly changing global markets.

This funding opportunity included a joint topic with DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office and the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management focused on pre-front-end engineering and design studies that support accelerated industrial adoption by de-risking innovative technologies integrated within realistic operational environments.     

Selectees

Selected projects will advance technology solutions for core portions of our nation’s industrial base, including the manufacturing of chemicals and fuels, iron and steel, cement and concrete, forest and paper products, food and beverage, glass and other industries.

Projects were selected in the following six topics: 

1. Chemicals and fuels, accelerating next-generation industrial technologies for the production of chemicals and fuels by improving energy and material efficiency, utilizing advanced energy sources, and developing technologies which utilize sustainable chemical feedstocks.
2. Iron and steel, advancing innovative, high-impact technology opportunities in the iron and steel industry through alternative ironmaking process technologies, ore improvements, improved steel recyclability, and advanced steelmaking technologies.
3. Food and beverage products, developing and demonstrating high-impact technology solutions for a wide variety of food and beverage operations across a full spectrum of applications.
4. Building and infrastructure, developing technologies to address industrial emissions, particularly those inherent to industrial processes, for cement and concrete, asphalt, and glass. 
5. Forest products, leveraging high-impact technology development opportunities in energy-intensive pulp, paper, and wood products manufacturing through dewatering and drying technologies and fiber preparation, pulping, and chemical recovery processes. 
6. Industrial Pre-FEED Studies, where preliminary front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) refers to a stage of project development—after basic feasibility study and conceptual design—which develops the initial concept into a detailed design basis and scope of work to ensure a project is economically and technically feasible as well as accurately estimated. 

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

Key Dates

Additional Information

• Download the full funding opportunity on EERE eXCHANGE.
• To apply applicants must register with and submit application materials through the EERE eXCHANGE