Events, News, and Announcements
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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Please stay tuned for more updates as DOE continues to develop this resource!
Vision and Strategy
The following are the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) critical minerals and materials vision and strategies.
Vision
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.
Strategies
- Diversify & Expand Supply: Diversify and expand supplies of critical minerals and materials from varying sources while minimizing waste and increasing techno-economic coproduction of materials. Coproduction refers to cases where many materials are produced together, each bringing in similar revenues rather than one material accounting for an overwhelming majority of revenue.
- Develop Alternatives: Innovate alternative materials and/or manufacturing components.
- Materials and Manufacturing Efficiency: Use and process materials efficiently across the entire supply chain and lifecycle.
- Circular Economy: Remanufacture, refurbish, repair, reuse, recycle, and repurpose.
- Enabling Activities: Cross-cutting functions, such as criticality assessments, stockpiling, advanced theoretical, computational, and experimental tools.
DOE Critical Minerals & Materials Strategies and Assessments
2011 Strategy and Assessment:
2010 Strategy and Assessment:
Recent Reports
- 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
External Resources
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