Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs)
Status: Forecasted
Posted date: February 18, 2026
Archive date: July 31, 2026
Close date: July 1, 2026
Opportunity ID: 361309
Opportunity number: DE-FOA-0003614
Opportunity category: Discretionary
Agency name: Office of Science
Agency code: PAMS-SC
Award floor: $12,000,000
Award ceiling: $18,000,000
Cost sharing required: No
Funding Instrument Types
- Grant
- Other
Category of Funding Activity
- Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Eligible Applicants
- Unrestricted
Categories (use these for quoted searches)
- agency_code:pams_sc
- category_of_funding_activity:science_and_technology_and_other_research_and_development
- cost_sharing_or_matching_requirement:false
- eligible_applicants:unrestricted
- funding_instrument_type:grant
- funding_instrument_type:other
- opportunity_category:discretionary
- status:forecasted
The DOE SC program in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) announces a re-competition of the Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program. The purpose of this program is to bring together world-class teams of scientists from universities, DOE national laboratories, and other institutions to perform energy-relevant basic research with a scope and complexity beyond what is possible in single-investigator or small-group awards. These multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary centers accelerate transformative scientific advances for the most challenging topics in materials sciences, chemical sciences, geosciences, and biosciences. EFRCs integrate experiments, theory, computation, and AI/ML; develop innovative experimental and theoretical tools that illuminate fundamental processes in unprecedented detail; and create an enthusiastic, interdisciplinary, workforce of energy-focused scientists.