Overview
MESC's Analysis and Strategic Investment team serves as DOE's in-house experts on energy sector supply chains. Through the Modeling, Mapping, and Analysis Consortium (MMAC), which MESC developed with several of the Department’s National Labs, MESC conducts cutting-edge economic and technical analyses. These analyses inform investment and program implementation, guide interagency supply chain and national security priorities, and contribute to development of new policies to ensure resilient, domestic energy manufacturing capabilities.
MESC is revitalizing the U.S. manufacturing base with over $20 billion of direct investment in manufacturing capacity, industrial carbonization, and workforce development. These investments and those of other DOE offices and U.S. Government agencies are guided by MESC's energy supply chain analyses.
Supply Chain Readiness Level (SCRL) Analysis
MESC and MMAC have developed the Supply Chain Readiness Level (SCRL) analytic tool to:
- Evaluate global energy supply chain needs, gaps and vulnerabilities;
- Assess USG investment impacts on strengthening energy supply chains;
- Identify supply chain elements that the U.S. can competitively produce; and
- Identify alternative supply chain element sources or substitutes that are not reliant on Foreign Entities of Concern (FEOC).
MESC has developed a report summarizing the dynamics affecting U.S. energy supply chains and establishing a framework to assess supply chain readiness to meet U.S. energy system needs. Read the full report: “Identifying Risks in the U.S. Energy Industrial Base: Supply Chain Readiness Levels.”
MESC is currently sharing portions of its initial insights from its SCRL analysis on battery supply chains. These preliminary results highlight the impacts of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funding in enhancing domestic sources for key battery supply chain elements. The analyses also identify battery supply chain elements that would benefit from greater reinforcement. Read the preliminary results of the battery SCRL analyses.
Quadrennial Supply Chain Review
2021-2024
MESC authored a four-year review of the supply chain for the Energy Sector Industrial Base as well as the Advanced Batteries Sector for the Quadrennial Supply Chain Review. The 2021-2024 Quadrennial Supply Chain Review, published by the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience assesses the resilience of supply chains for industries critical to national and economic security, including energy, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, national defense, and others. The Review describes emerging challenges to certain critical industries and outlines a U.S. Government approach to combating the problematic and continued use of non-market policies and practices by certain foreign countries, which disrupt free and fair commerce throughout our supply chains.
Four-year Review of Supply Chains for Energy Sector Industrial Base
The U.S. Government is advancing a more secure and diversified energy sector industrial base to support an evolving energy system. While the United States has long been a leading energy economy, maintaining this position and global competitiveness will require substantial and rapid transformation from a focus on producing hydrocarbons to manufacturing energy technologies.
Four-year Review of Supply Chains for Advanced Batteries Sector
Advanced batteries are critical for U.S. energy security and will play a vital role in affordable, decarbonized, and resilient future transportation and power sectors. A diversified, secure, and circular supply chain is imperative for energy security and will position U.S. manufacturing to compete in an industry poised to grow more than five-fold globally and six-fold domestically by 2035.
Delivering a Government-Enabled, Private-Sector Led Manufacturing Renaissance
MESC partnered with offices across the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce’s Office of the Under Secretary of Economic Affairs (OUSEA) to aggregate and map major federal investments to understand their impacts on regional economies, as well as how those impacts may affect successful project delivery. This information is intended to inform proactive engagement with public and private sector stakeholders to mitigate potential project risks and improve the likelihood that investments succeed and deliver real benefits for the communities in which they operate.
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Key Partnerships
Modeling, Mapping, and Analysis Consortium
The NREL-led Modeling, Mapping, and Analysis Consortium (MMAC) offers insights to secure domestic manufacturing and energy supply chains.
Recent Requests for Information (RFIs)
Energy Supply Chains Readiness and Analysis Methods
Status: In Review
This RFI is an opportunity for industry and other stakeholders to highlight specific supply chain gaps, vulnerabilities, and/or challenges impacting various components of energy technologies.
State Partnerships to Enable Automotive Conversion Grants for Small and Medium Manufacturers
Status: Closed
The purpose of this RFI is to better understand how DOE can support small- and medium-sized automotive manufacturers and assembly companies transition from internal combustion engine (ICE) assembly and parts production to assembly and parts production for electric, hybrid, and fuel cell vehicles.
Critical Materials Market Dynamics Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain
Status: Closed
The purpose of this RFI is to better understand market dynamics and price volatility in critical minerals materials processing, refining, and recycling and how the federal government can play a role in supporting market stability and price transparency.