Notice of Intent to issue FY22 Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies—Building Technologies Office Multi-topic Funding Opportunity Announcement | DE FOA 0002865

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This notice signals the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) plan to release a multi-topic Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) focused on advanced materials, manufacturing technologies, and building-related innovations. The FOA is expected to be issued on behalf of the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO, described in the text as the new office evolving from AMO) and the Building Technologies Office (BTO). The overall thrust is to fund applied research and development along with pilot demonstration projects that can meaningfully cut energy use and emissions, strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness, and accelerate deployment of better building technologies.

The opportunity is rooted in EERE's industrial and buildings decarbonization goals. On the manufacturing side, the Advanced Manufacturing Office mission described here centers on three outcomes: lowering manufacturing energy intensity and industrial carbon emissions, improving the competitiveness of the U.S. manufacturing sector (with special attention to clean energy manufacturing), and reducing the life-cycle energy and carbon footprint of manufactured goods across multiple end-use sectors including industry, buildings, transportation, power, and agriculture. On the buildings side, BTO's role is framed around developing, demonstrating, and speeding adoption of cost-effective technologies, tools, and services that enable high-performing, energy-efficient, and demand-flexible residential and commercial buildings. That buildings mission is tied to longer-term national targets: an equitable transition to a decarbonized energy system by 2050, with an interim emphasis on a decarbonized power sector by 2035, since building electrification and demand flexibility depend heavily on a cleaner grid.

The FOA, as described in the notice, aligns with Biden-Harris Administration priorities around strengthening manufacturing competitiveness through innovation. It is organized around three main technical and programmatic areas: (1) Next Generation Materials and Manufacturing, (2) Secure and Sustainable Materials, and (3) Energy Technology Manufacturing and Workforce Development. While the notice does not list specific subtopics, the framing suggests interest in materials and processes that improve performance and lower cost, supply chains and material systems that are resilient and environmentally responsible, and efforts that help scale energy technology manufacturing capacity while building the workforce needed to support that scaling. A key point is that DOE intends to integrate multiple research opportunities under one umbrella FOA, rather than scattering them across separate solicitations, with the intent of supporting high-impact projects that are close enough to application to justify pilot-scale demonstrations.

Administratively, this is categorized as a discretionary funding opportunity using cooperative agreements, which typically means DOE expects substantial involvement during the project (for example, technical coordination, milestones, and go/no-go decisions). The funding activity category is Energy, and the listing includes CFDA number 81.086. The issuing agency is the Department of Energy, Golden Field Office. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is open to any type of entity, subject to any clarifications that would appear in the FOA itself. The data provided also indicates an anticipated award ceiling of $10,000,000 per award and an expectation of about 34 awards, though the notice emphasizes that details may change once the actual FOA is released.

The most important limitation is that this document is only a Notice of Intent (NOI), not the FOA itself. DOE is explicit that all details are subject to change, that the eventual FOA could differ significantly from what is described, or that DOE might choose not to issue the FOA at all. DOE also states it will not respond to questions about the NOI; questions are only expected to be handled after the FOA is formally released through the process laid out in the solicitation. The notice advises prospective applicants to use the time before release to line up partners, refine project concepts, and gather supporting data so they are ready to respond quickly once the FOA is posted.

Timing and access information are included as well. The notice says DOE planned to issue the FOA in mid-November 2022 through the EERE Exchange portal (https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/). The source record also lists a creation date of October 14, 2022, an original closing date of March 10, 2023, and the opportunity number DE-FOA-0002865. Even though those dates are included in the record, the NOI language makes clear that applicants should rely on the final FOA for definitive deadlines, requirements, topic areas, cost share expectations, and submission instructions.

• The Department of Energy, Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Notice of Intent to issue FY22 Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies—Building Technologies Office Multi-topic Funding Opportunity Announcement" 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 Oct 14, 2022.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Mar 10, 2023. (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 $10,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 34 candidate(s).
• 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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