Funding Provided by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Supports Expanded Manufacturing Capacity in Former Coal Communities
Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains
December 13, 2022
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The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced its intent to invest $350 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) to strengthen domestic clean energy manufacturing and recycling. The Advanced Energy Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Program supports the building, expanding, or re-equipping of small and medium-sized manufacturing facilities in energy communities to produce or recycle property needed for secure, resilient domestic clean energy supply chains.
Small- and medium-sized manufacturers applying to this program must gross less than $100 million in sales annually, employ fewer than 500 employees at their plant site, and have accrued a total annual energy bill of more than $100,000 but less than $2.5 million. The program includes a priority for minority-owned firms. Additionally, all projects under this program must occur in census tracts where coal mines have closed since December 31, 1999, or coal-fired power plant units have closed since December 31, 2009, or in immediately adjacent census tracts. A mapping tool showing such closures is available here.
Led by DOE’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, this program includes technical assistance for small- and medium-sized manufacturing firms to support economic revitalization, enable transition of former coal workers into clean energy jobs, and shift energy infrastructure into hubs for future economic growth. Information about current technical assistance offerings is available under Program Resources here.
DOE intends for the Program to draw on and utilize valuable facilities, infrastructure, and skilled workers in these communities to anchor clean energy manufacturing. The program will invest in American manufacturing; create high quality, good-paying jobs; expand access to the nation’s clean energy infrastructure; and support President Biden’s goals of achieving a carbon-free electric grid by 2035 and a net zero emissions economy by 2050.