Request for Information (RFI): Accelerating Speed to Power/Winning the Artificial Intelligence Race: Federal Action to Rapidly Expand Grid Capacity and Enable Electricity Demand Growth
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: October 21, 2025
Archive date: December 21, 2025
Close date: November 21, 2025
Opportunity ID: 360771
Opportunity number: DE-FOA-0003574
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: National Energy Technology Laboratory
Agency code: DOE-NETL
Award floor: $1
Award ceiling: $2
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
Category of Funding Activity
- Energy
Eligible Applicants
- Unrestricted
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:doe_netl
- category_of_funding_activity:energy
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:unrestricted
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
The purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, impacted communities and other stakeholders on issues related to gigawatt-scale generation and transmission investments driven by projected electricity demand growth from data centers, advanced manufacturing facilities, semiconductor fabrication plants, and other large energy users that are outpacing the capacity of the existing electric grid.