Events, News, and Announcements
Critical Minerals & Materials Matchmaker (CM3)
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Funding will establish a Critical Materials Supply Chain Research Facility for a resilient, diverse, and secure domestic supply of critical minerals and materials to ensure our economic prosperity and national security
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Historic Incentives in President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda are Supporting Over 100 American-Made Clean Energy Manufacturing, Critical Minerals, and Industrial Decarbonization Projects, Bolstering Domestic Supply Chains, Lower Costs, and Create Good-Paying American Jobs
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $62 Million to Lower Battery Recycling Costs Across the Nation
President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Invests in Projects That Will Reduce Costs for Consumer Battery Recycling, Making EVs More Affordable and Boosting Our Domestic Supply Chains
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The Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize is a three-phase competition will award up to $4 million to competitors to substantially increase the production and use of critical materials recovered from electronic scrap—or e-scrap.
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Read about how EERE worked to bring clean energy to Americans nationwide in 2023.
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Funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Will Support the Conversion of Coal and Coal Byproducts Into Critical Minerals and Materials for Advanced Clean Energy Technologies, Creating Jobs in Energy Communities
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Funded Projects Will Lower EV Technology Costs, Increase Driving Range, and Build a Sustainable, Secure Domestic Battery Supply Chain
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University and Industry-led Projects Will Advance Technologies to Treat and Reuse Wastewater and Extract Valuable Resources from Energy Waste Streams
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) issued a $10 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for a Critical Materials Accelerator.
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Funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Continues to Expand Domestic Battery Manufacturing and Processing, Strengthen America’s Critical Supply Chains, Create Good-Paying Union Jobs, and Support Clean Energy Transition
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Funding Will Retrofit America's Existing Automotive Manufacturing Facilities, Expand & Retain High-Paying Auto Manufacturing Jobs, & Bolster Domestic Supply Chains, Part of the Investing in America Agenda to Create Not Just More Jobs But Good Jobs
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This $5.1 million competition will help create a circular wind energy economy
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New coalition builds on momentum from 2023 Critical Materials Assessment and corresponding list, announces intent to invest up to $10M for Critical Materials Accelerator Program
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Historic Investment from President Biden’s Agenda Will Accelerate Deployment of Energy Storage Technology and Support an Affordable, Reliable, Carbon-Free Electric Grid
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This list includes critical materials for energy, as determined by the Secretary of Energy, pursuant to authority under the Energy Act of 2020.
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Funding Will Retrofit America's Existing Automotive Manufacturing Facilities, Expand & Retain High-Paying Auto Manufacturing Jobs, & Bolster Domestic Supply Chains, Part of the Investing in America Agenda to Create Not Just More Jobs But Good Jobs
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FECM issued a notice of intent to fund a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law program that will advance cost effective and environmentally responsible production, reuse, and recycling of critical minerals and materials in the United States.
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DOE today announced $10.9 million for 10 projects across nine states that will advance innovative technologies to extract and convert battery-grade lithium from geothermal brine sources in the United States.
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Funding from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Will Advance Domestic Manufacturing, Support Creation of Clean Energy Technologies from Coal and Coal Byproducts, Create Good-Paying Jobs in Energy Communities and Throughout the Nation
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Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to issue a request for information (RFI) regarding an updated assessment of critical materials for energy.
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DOE Seeks Public Feedback and Input on New Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grants for Electrified Vehicles Program - Issues Request for Information and Announces Virtual Workshops on May 4 and May 5, 2023
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Projects in West Virginia and North Dakota Will Help Strengthen America’s Clean Energy Supply Chain, Revitalize Energy Communities, and Enhance National Security
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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding Supports Reintegration of Used Batteries into the Supply Chain to Meet Increased Battery Demand and Reduce Foreign Reliance for Critical Materials
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SCALEUP Program Aligns with Biden-Harris Administration Priorities to Develop American-Made Modern Technologies to Strengthen Global Competitiveness.
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Funded with $2.8 Billion through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the portfolio of 21 projects supports new, retrofitted, and expanded commercial-scale domestic facilities to produce battery materials, processing, cell components, and battery recycling.
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The Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resources (MINER) program seeks to increase the U.S. domestic supplies of critical minerals.
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Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a $12 million Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to support the extraction and conversion of lithium from geothermal brines to use in batteries for stationary storage and electric vehicles.
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DOE's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has announced up to $6 million available for research and development projects that will repurpose domestic coal resources for products that can be employed in clean energy technologies.
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On September 19, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $156 million in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for a first-of-a-kind facility to extract and separate rare earth elements (REE) and critical ...
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Lithium might seem like an unlikely object for the limelight, but those steeped in the mineral commodities market are not surprised. The need for lithium has grown exponentially in recent years. It plays a vital role in our high-tech world, particularly
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At the southern end of California is a shallow, landlocked saline lake, the result of a deep and complex history of geologic and hydraulic processes. Long a significant site for local communities, the Salton Sea region has increasingly become a hotspot fo
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The United States has more than 4.4 billion tons of coal waste scattered across many sites throughout the nation.
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At the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Critical Materials Institute (CMI), researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have been working together to develop new, cost-effective technologies for the...
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Vision and Strategy
The following are the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) critical minerals and materials vision and strategies.
Vision
Build reliable, resilient, affordable, diverse, sustainable, and secure domestic critical mineral and materials supply chains that support the clean energy transition and decarbonization of the energy, manufacturing, and transportation economies while promoting safe, sustainable, economic, and environmentally just solutions to meet current and future needs.
Strategy Pillars
- Diversify and Expand Supply: Identify and secure substantial resources from a wide variety of feedstocks including primary and secondary sources, co-produced materials from existing operations, and international partners.
- Develop Alternatives: Produce new materials that have less disruption potential and design manufactured parts and systems that require little to no critical materials to function.
- Improve Materials and Manufacturing Efficiency: Design for atom economy, reduce waste through efficient use, and improve overall efficiency of mining through manufacturing and recycling to minimize environmental impacts while maximizing yield.
- Build the Circular Economy: Remanufacture, refurbish, repair, reuse, recycle, and repurpose all materials that are used in a modern economy to extend the lifetime of materials and/or partially offset the need for virgin material extraction.
DOE supports these strategy pillars by enabling activities, cross-cutting functions to enable and enhance research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts across four areas:
- Analysis & advanced tools
- Market assessment & development
- International engagement & standards
- Education & workforce development.
This offers the definitions and current list of critical materials and critical minerals.
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View a fact sheet on the key findings of the GTO-funded a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory analysis, "Characterizing the Geothermal Lithium Resource at the Salton Sea."
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DOE Seeks Public Input on Critical Materials Research Program to Strengthen Clean Energy Technology Manufacturing in America
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Learn about the U.S. Department of Energy plan to build more secure, resilient, and diverse domestic clean energy supply chains.
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2011 Strategy and Assessment:
2010 Strategy and Assessment:
- Education and Workforce Development for Critical Minerals and Materials Supply Chains: Workshop Report
- Minerals and Materials for the Global Clean Energy Transition
- Improved Quantification of Lithium Resources in the Salton Sea Region Fact Sheet
- Domestic Wastes and Byproducts: A Resource for Critical Material Supply Chains
- Materials Used in U.S. Wind Energy Technologies: Quantities and Availability for Two Future Scenarios
- Renewable Energy Materials Properties Database: Summary
- Pre-Publication Copy of Notice of Final Determination on 2023 DOE Critical Materials List
- Request for Information on DOE's Critical Materials Research Program
- Recovery of Rare Earth Elements and Critical Materials from Coal and Coal Byproducts
- America's Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition
- Building Resilient Supply Chains, Revitalizing American Manufacturing, and Fostering Broad-Based Growth: Review of Large Capacity Batteries
- Battery Critical Materials Supply Chain Challenges and Opportunities: Results of the 2020 Request for Information and Workshop
- Critical Materials Rare Earths Supply Chain: A Situational White Paper
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2023
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Energy Act of 2020
Methodology and Technical Input for the 2023 Review and Revision of the U.S. Critical Minerals List
Federal Strategy on Critical Minerals
Assessment of Critical Minerals: Updated Application of Screening Methodology
Assessment of Critical Minerals: Screening Methodology and Initial Application