The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) with the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), in partnership with other parts of the Department, including the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office (HFTO), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO), Geothermal Technologies Office (GTO), Office of Science, and the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) intend to issue multiple funding opportunities over the next several years to support the development and commercialization of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies and collectively enable the Department’s Carbon Negative Shot (CNS) target of gigaton-scale deployment for less than $100 per net metric ton (tonne) of CO2-equivalent (CO2e) within a decade.
DOE plans to design and release a series of multi-topic, multi-year funding opportunities soliciting applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) for CDR technologies that will be coordinated across DOE offices in order to achieve CNS objectives across CDR pathways. These funding opportunities are expected to focus on several topics responsive to both Departmental annual CDR programmatic priorities and several CDR Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) related activities. In alignment with the Department’s commitment to equity, justice, and community consultation, these topic areas incorporate Community Benefit Plan requirements to ensure projects do not have adverse impacts and do support workforce development and environmental protection. These funding opportunities include this FOA, DE-FOA-0003082 “Carbon Negative Shot Pilots”, which is focused on integrated pilot-scale testing of advanced CDR technologies in relevant environments.
The current FOA aims to support achievement of CNS objectives across CDR pathways through support for integrated pilot-scale testing of advanced CDR technologies in relevant environments.
Under the current FOA opening, applications are solicited in the following subtopics:
AOI-1. Small Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS) Pilots
AOI-2. Small Mineralization Pilots
AOI-3. Multi-Pathways CDR Testbed Facilities
AOI-4 is anticipated to be issued under future amendments to the FOA.