Rare Earth Elements Demonstration Facility
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
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- 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
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.