Project Grant DEMS0000006

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Albemarle U.S., Inc. a $147,126,520 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to retrofit a domestic manufacturing facility to produce up to 50 metric tons per annum of lithium metal anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. This project, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, aims to support the production of materials for the light and non-light duty...

This $198,679,760 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) supports the establishment of a 4 gigawatt-hour lithium-ion cell production facility by Enersys Advanced Systems Inc. in Piedmont, South Carolina. The project aims to replace foreign-sourced materials with domestic supply, create 500 permanent high-wage jobs and 400 construction jobs, and contribute to the...

This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) will demonstrate the use of pine wood-derived graphene oxide materials for lithium-ion batteries and paving blocks. The $650,000 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, will also fund further research into how changes in processing affect the final products to enable scale-up and commercialization. The...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Honeywell International Inc. a $368,663,580 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253). The objective of this grant is to build a 10KT commercial-scale facility for the domestic production of lithium (bis) fluorosulfonyl imide (LiFSI) electrolyte salt, which will supply the domestic production of lithium-ion batteries. The new state-of-the-art facility is expected to...

The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $467,176,894.64 Project Grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to Terravolta Resources LLC, a small disadvantaged business, on January 1, 2025. The objective of this award is to construct and operate a commercial-scale lithium extraction and refining facility to produce battery-grade lithium from domestic brine resources in Texarkana, TX. This funding supports the Bipartisan...

The Department of Energy, through the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253), has awarded a $240,327,444 Project Grant to Forge Battery, Inc. to develop a 277,000 sq/ft facility in Morrisville, NC capable of producing 3GWh/year of high-capacity lithium-ion 21700 cylindrical cells. The key objectives of this project include building the production facility, scaling up Forge Battery's "Atomic Armor" technology to create...

Am Batteries Inc. received a $256,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Industrial Innovation under the Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.041) to develop a solvent-free manufacturing process for lithium-ion battery electrodes. The goal of the one-year project beginning February 1, 2022 is to design, manufacture, and operate a continuous feed dry spraying system to optimize fabrication of thicker battery electrodes without solvents. This novel...

The U.S. Department of Energy awarded The Dow Chemical Company a $386,595,646 project grant under the Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) to demonstrate the technoeconomic viability of onshoring domestic manufacturing of low-carbon electrolyte solvents for lithium-ion battery production. The project aims to create new value streams for electrolyte solvents while furthering the nation's self-reliance for electric vehicle (EV)...

This $95,110,492 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chain Demonstrations and Commercial Applications program (CFDA 81.253) supports the establishment of a low-carbon, all-water-based, highly circular stationary storage battery plant based on Nanoramic, Inc.'s proprietary neocarbonix electrode technology. The award will enable Nanoramic, a small business based in Wakefield, MA, to develop advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing...

Conovate Inc. received a $181,500 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program to develop environmentally-friendly anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The company will synthesize and optimize graphene monoxide using bio-sourced feedstocks as an alternative to graphite in battery anodes. Conovate will evaluate...