DOE BIL Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing FOA, Round 2 (DE-FOA-0003099)

Round 2 of DOE's IIJA Section 40207(b)/(c) battery supply-chain grants, issued by the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains through NETL. Grants.gov records $3.5 billion in estimated funding across an anticipated 41 awards, posted November 15, 2023 and closing March 19, 2024 after an August 31, 2023 notice of intent (DE-FOA-0003098) and a January 9, 2024 concept-paper deadline. One of the eight areas of interest — AOI 4, 'Commercial-scale Domestic Manufacturing of Battery Cathodes and Anodes' — is the graphite-relevant topic, with an anticipated 4 to 8 awards of $50 million to $300 million federal share each. DOE announced selections on September 20, 2024: over $3 billion for 25 projects across 14 states. A DOE project fact sheet for the program covers Urbix, Inc.'s $124,638,300 federal cost share for a Muscle Shoals, Alabama plant producing roughly 10,000 tonnes per year of coated spherical purified graphite.

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