Funding Notice: Point-Source Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilots, Commercial Demonstrations, & Networked Demonstration

Office: Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations 

Solicitation Number: DE-FOA-0003474 

Access the Solicitation: OCED eXCHANGE 

FOA Amount: up to $1.3 billion 

Background Information 

On December 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) opened applications for up to $1.3 billion in federal funding to bolster the development and commercialization of carbon capture technologies with significant investments targeting the design, stakeholder engagement, construction, and operation of large-scale point-source carbon capture projects. OCED aims to use this funding to enhance the confidence of commercial entities in adopting carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies, broaden the market for electricity generation and industrial emitters, and reduce costs to expand the feasibility of CCUS implementation across facilities. 

Eligibility 

The following types of domestic entities are eligible to participate as a recipient or subrecipient of this Notice of Funding Opportunity 1) Institutions of higher education; 2) For-profit organizations; 3) Non-profit organizations; 4) States and local governments, and 5) Tribal Nations.  

In Topic Area 3, emitters are required to be subrecipients, and pipeline and storage companies are required to be either prime recipients or subrecipients. 

Eligibility for Topic Area 3 requires a multi-party application consisting of at least one entity that is developing, owns, or operates CO2 transportation and/or storage facilities. Applications that do not include such entities will be deemed non-responsive. 

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Topic Areas 

  • Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects (Topic Area 1): Up to $750 million for commercial-scale carbon capture demonstration projects integrated with CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure at up to one coal-fired power plant and up to two industrial facilities that advance technical maturity, reduce uncertainty in cost and performance, and increase the potential for the technology to be replicated and deployed at additional facilities.  
  • Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilot Projects (Topic Area 2): Up to $450 million for large-scale carbon capture pilot projects that demonstrate transformative technological advances in carbon capture, enabling increased capture efficiency, reduced cost, and improved environmental performance. 
  • Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program – Infrastructure Planning and Design (Topic Area 3): Up to $100 million for the planning and design of shared CO2 transport and storage infrastructure that networks of nearby carbon capture projects can use. This support aims to demonstrate how bringing different carbon capture projects together can reduce the cost for CCUS and enable more widespread adoption of CCUS by a broader range of emitters. Topic Area 3 is being offered in joint collaboration with the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management to bolster the coordination of CO2 transport development and demonstration efforts across DOE.  

OCED intends to fund up to 11 cooperative agreements with an award size of at least $175M and no more than $400M under Topic Area 1; an award size of at least $75M and no more than $135M under Topic Area 2; and an award size of at least $20M and no more than $30M under Topic Area 3. The non-federal cost share must be at least 50% of the total project costs for demonstration projects in Topic Areas 1 and 3, and at least 30% of the total project costs for projects in Topic Area 2. 

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Key Dates 

Applications Open: December 17, 2024 

Deadline for Concept Papers: March 1, 2025 

Deadline for Full Applications: July 1, 2025 

Anticipated Award Date:  November 2025 – March 2026 

Additional Information