Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002804 “Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization FOA”. | DE FOA 0002803

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This Notice of Intent signals that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and its Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO), planned to release a forthcoming Funding Opportunity Announcement called the "Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization FOA" (anticipated as DE-FOA-0002804; the notice references DE-FOA-0002803 as the opportunity number in the source data). The core purpose is to accelerate practical, near-to-mid-term technology progress that cuts energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. industrial and manufacturing sectors, particularly in subsectors that are large emitters. In policy terms, the opportunity is positioned as part of the broader federal push to address climate change while strengthening domestic manufacturing capacity, supporting good-paying jobs, and ensuring that the benefits of a clean energy transition reach a wide range of communities.

The opportunity is rooted in the Biden Administration's national climate and energy targets, including achieving carbon pollution-free electricity by 2035 and reaching net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050. AMO frames industrial decarbonization as essential to meeting those goals because manufacturing is both a major direct source of emissions and a key enabling sector for clean technologies used elsewhere in the economy. The notice highlights that manufacturing advancements can spill over into other sectors like transportation, buildings, and the electric grid by making low-carbon equipment, materials, and components more affordable and widely available.

From a technical and project standpoint, the planned FOA is aimed at applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) with an emphasis on high-impact work that can move beyond lab-scale concepts. The notice specifically points to funding for applied R&D and prototype or pilot-scale demonstration projects intended to speed up the industrialization and deployment of "transformational" technologies. The central evaluation lens implied by the notice is whether a project can meaningfully reduce industrial energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, either within specific high-emitting industrial subsectors or through cross-cutting approaches that could be adopted across multiple industries.

The areas of interest named in the notice outline the main decarbonization pathways DOE expected applicants to pursue. These include industrial energy efficiency improvements, industrial electrification (shifting industrial processes from fossil-based heat and power to electricity, ideally supplied by low-carbon generation), and the use of low-carbon fuels, feedstocks, and energy sources. The notice also highlights industrial carbon capture and utilization, indicating interest in technologies that can capture carbon dioxide from industrial processes and then use it in products or processes, where appropriate, as part of an emissions-reduction strategy. Taken together, these topic areas reflect DOE's approach of supporting multiple routes to industrial decarbonization rather than betting on a single solution, recognizing that different industrial processes have different technical constraints, heat requirements, and economic realities.

Administratively, the opportunity is listed under the DOE Golden Field Office, in the energy funding activity category, with CFDA number 81.086 (a DOE assistance listing historically associated with energy efficiency and renewable energy-related support). Eligibility is described as "unrestricted," meaning it is broadly open to many applicant types, subject to any additional eligibility details that would be spelled out in the full FOA. The notice functions as an early heads-up rather than the full application package, so key elements that often matter to applicants (such as cost share requirements, detailed topic areas, technical readiness expectations, submission deadlines, merit review criteria, and reporting obligations) would be expected to appear in the actual FOA when issued.

The notice also makes a point of separating this planned FOA from efforts funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), including Industrial Emissions Demonstration Projects. In practical terms, that distinction signals that this planned AMO funding would be its own track, with its own objectives and selection process, rather than being part of the BIL demonstration funding stream. For prospective applicants, that typically means they should not assume BIL-specific requirements, structures, or topic constraints apply here, and they should watch for the FOA's final language to understand how DOE defines project scale, demonstration expectations, and eligible cost categories.

The source data included with the notice lists a creation date of June 30, 2022, and an original closing date of October 31, 2022, which likely reflects the administrative window tied to the notice entry rather than the final FOA itself. It also shows an award ceiling value of "2" and expected awards as "0," which appears to be a placeholder or incomplete metadata rather than a meaningful statement about total funding, award size, or number of selections. The substantive takeaway is that DOE intended to make funding available for industrial efficiency and decarbonization work that is applied, impactful, and oriented toward real-world deployment, especially in emissions-intensive parts of the industrial economy and in solutions that can scale across multiple manufacturing contexts.

• The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002804 “Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization FOA”." and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 30, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Oct 31, 2022. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $2.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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