Notice of Intent (NOI) related to Aligning Manufacturability & Pre-production Design (AMPD) for Storage Technologies
The DOE plans to offer grants for energy storage tech design improvements that lower production costs and prepare for manufacturing scale-up.
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National Energy Technology Laboratory has archived this opportunity.
Funder: National Energy Technology Laboratory
Due Dates: June 1, 2025 (anticipated FOA application deadline)
Funding Amounts: ~$8M total; up to 4 awards; project period up to 3 years; minimum 20% non-federal cost share required.
Summary: Supports R&D to improve the manufacturability and pre-production design of stationary energy storage technologies, aiming to reduce production costs and enable manufacturing scale-up.
Key Information: This is a Notice of Intent; the official FOA is expected Fall 2024 and details may change.
Description
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), intends to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) to support research and development projects that address pre-production manufacturability challenges for stationary energy storage technologies. The goal is to facilitate innovative design solutions—at the material, subcomponent, component, or system level—that improve manufacturability, reduce production costs, and prepare technologies for manufacturing scale-up. This initiative is part of DOE’s broader effort to ensure a reliable, resilient, and affordable electricity grid and to advance the domestic energy storage supply chain.
The FOA will focus on design innovations that directly address manufacturability challenges, such as optimizing the size, shape, or composition of storage technology elements, with the intent to improve metrics like production cost, time, volume, supply chain robustness, and product quality. Projects should advance technologies from at least TRL 4/MRL 4 to TRL 5/MRL 5 or higher.
