Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility

Key Facts

Status: Forecasted

Posted date: December 1, 2025

Archive date: February 4, 2026

Close date: January 5, 2026

Opportunity ID: 360923

Opportunity number: DE-FOA-0003587

Opportunity category: Discretionary

Agency name: National Energy Technology Laboratory

Agency code: DOE-NETL

Award floor: $67,000,000

Award ceiling: $134,000,000

Cost sharing required: Yes

Funding Instrument Types
  • Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity
  • Energy
Eligible Applicants
  • Others
Tools
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  • agency_code:doe_netl
  • category_of_funding_activity:energy
  • cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:true
  • eligible_applicants:others
  • funding_instrument_type:cooperative_agreement
  • opportunity_category:discretionary
  • status:forecasted
Description

The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) is issuing this NOFO to request applications for projects to design, construct, commission and operate a Rare Earth Element (REE) Demonstration Facility that demonstrates the separation of REEs from feedstock derived from acid mine drainage, mine waste, or other deleterious materials to rare earth oxides and refining into rare earth metals at a single site.

Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility
The Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) is issuing this NOFO to request applications for projects to design, construct, commission and operate a Rare Earth Element (REE) Demonstration Facility that demonstrates the separation of REEs from feedstock derived from acid mine drainage, mine waste, or other deleterious materials to rare earth oxides and refining into rare earth metals at a single site.
[Forecasted] Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility
Forecasted
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Energy
Cooperative Agreement
Others
2025-12-01