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Department of Energy (DOE)

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) mission is to ensure America’s security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions. This includes catalyzing the timely, material, and efficient transformation of the nation’s energy system and securing U.S. leadership in advanced manufacturing technologies, as well as, maintaining a vibrant U.S. effort in science and engineering as a cornerstone of our economic prosperity. To accomplish these goals, the DOE has established multiple manufacturing initiatives as cross-cutting innovative programs within the department to strengthen U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and to increase U.S. manufacturing competitiveness across the board by boosting energy productivity and leveraging low-cost domestic energy resources and feedstocks.

The DOE partners with private and public stakeholders to support the research and development of innovative technologies that can improve U.S. competitiveness, save energy, and ensure global leadership in advanced manufacturing technologies. Additionally, The DOE uses manufacturing innovation institutes to develop advanced manufacturing technologies to support these initiatives.

Federal Announcements

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $430 Million to Accelerate Domestic Clean Energy Manufacturing in Former Coal Communities

| Department of Energy (DOE) | Clean Energy, Supply Chain

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $428 million for 14 projects to accelerate domestic clean energy manufacturing in 15 coal communities across the United States. The projects, led by small-and medium-businesses in communities with de-commissioned coal facilities, were selected by DOE’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains to address critical energy supply chain vulnerabilities.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $9 Million to Bolster Clean Domestic Manufacturing and Support Small-and Medium-Sized Businesses

| Department of Energy (DOE) | Clean Energy, Industrial Commons, Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers, Solar Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy announced an additional $9 million investment in the Industrial Training and Assessment Centers (ITAC) Implementation Grants program. This funding would support 47 small- and medium-sized manufacturers across the country to implement a wide variety of energy and efficiency projects, including installing onsite solar and heat pumps, improving lighting and heating, and electrifying industrial equipment and fleets.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $40 Million to Support a Domestic Solar Supply Chain

| Department of Energy (DOE) | Solar Energy, Supply Chain, Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $40 million in investments across the solar energy supply chain, including the selection of four projects to improve the lifecycle of photovoltaic solar systems. These investments will support the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to boost domestic manufacturing and competitiveness while reducing waste and improving sustainability of solar technologies.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $50 Million to Strengthen America's Auto Communities and Bolster Domestic Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

| Department of Energy (DOE), Executive Office of the President | Automotive, Clean Energy, Climate, Electric Vehicle, Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers, Supply Chain, Workforce

The U.S. Department of Energy, through the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, announced $50 million for six states with significant automotive workforces to help small- and medium-sized suppliers adapt manufacturing facilities for the electric vehicle supply chain, helping to maintain good-paying, union jobs in traditional auto communities.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $85 Million to Accelerate Domestic Heat Pump Manufacturing

| Department of Energy (DOE) | Business Operations, Manufacturing Cycle Time, Product Development Cycle, Underserved Communities

The U.S. Department of Energy announced nearly $85 million across four heat pump manufacturers to accelerate the manufacturing of electric heat pumps, heat pump hot water heaters, and heat pump components at five factories in New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Rhode Island.

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Biden-Harris Administration Invests $2.2 Billion in the Nation's Grid to Protect Against Extreme Weather, Lower Costs, and Prepare for Growing Demand

| Department of Energy (DOE), Executive Office of the President | Clean Energy, Technology, Workforce

The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $2.2 billion investment in the nation’s grid for eight projects across 18 states to protect against growing threats of extreme weather events, lower costs for communities, and catalyze additional grid capacity to meet load growth stemming from an increase in manufacturing and data centers.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $63 Million to Advance Battery Recycling and Smart Manufacturing

| Department of Energy (DOE), Executive Office of the President | Advanced Manufacturing, Energy Efficiency, Recycling, Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers, Smart Manufacturing, Technology

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the availability of up to $63 million to enable state and local governments to expand battery recycling and modernize American manufacturing by making cutting edge technologies like advanced sensors and modeling more accessible to small- and medium-sized manufacturers.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $2 Billion to Support American Auto Workers, Convert Facilities for Electric Vehicles

| Department of Energy (DOE), Executive Office of the President | Automotive, Clean Energy, Electric Vehicle, Supply Chain

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $1.7 billion to support the conversion of 11 shuttered or at-risk auto manufacturing and assembly facilities across eight states—Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia—to manufacture electric vehicles and their supply chain.

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Related Programs

  • Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-H)

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) advances high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. ARPA-E awardees are unique because they are developing entirely new ways to generate, store, and use energy.

  • Better Plants Program

    The Better Plants Program works with leading U.S. manufacturers and wastewater treatment agencies to set ambitious energy, water, waste, and carbon reduction goals. By partnering with industry, the Better Plants program aims to help leading manufacturers boost efficiency, increase resilience, strengthen economic competitiveness, and reduce their carbon footprint.

  • Building Training and Assessment Centers (BTACs)

    The Building Training and Assessment Centers (BTAC) Program will provide grants to institutions of higher education to establish building training and assessment centers. These BTACs will educate and train students and building performance professionals to deploy modern building technologies to small businesses and K-12 schools.

    BTACs will fund institutions of higher education, like community colleges and universities, to prepare a diverse and equitable workforce that will lower our nation's carbon footprint. 

  • Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII)

    The Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), a Manufacturing USA Institute, focuses on the research and development of technologies and solutions that can capture, share, and process in real-time the increasing amounts of information available at manufacturing facilities. These technologies are expected to enable dramatically improved process control and operation, and enable benefits such as improved energy efficiency, equipment reliability, productivity gains, as well as related improvements in safety, quality, and yield in manufacturing processes. 

  • Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership (CHP TAP)

    Highlighting the benefits of combined heat and power (CHP) as an energy resource, Executive Order 13624 established a national goal of 40 gigawatts of new CHP capacity by 2020. In support of this goal, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Manufacturing Office's CHP Deployment Program provides stakeholders with the resources necessary to identify CHP market opportunities and support implementation of CHP systems in industrial, federal, commercial, institutional, and other applications. DOE's CHP Technical Assistance Partnerships (TAPs) 1 provide national coverage to assist in the fulfillment of this goal.

  • Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII)

    The Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII), a Manufacturing USA Institute, is an inclusive national research institute with major leading research universities in cybersecurity, smart and energy-efficient manufacturing, and deep expertise in research and development, supply chains, factory automation, and workforce development. Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, CyManII aggregates the most advanced research institutions in revolutionary manufacturing, securing automation and supply chains, workforce development, and cybersecurity. The research team brings to bear the most powerful expertise and infrastructure needed to ensure the digital transformation that will continue to propel the United States in innovative research in manufacturing for decades.

  • Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon (EPIXC)

    The Electrified Process for Industry without Carbon’s (EPIXC), a Manufacturing USA Institute, is a public-private partnership aimed at securing U.S. manufacturing competitiveness in a global economic environment that increasingly demands eliminating carbon emissions by developing the technologies and workforce required to replace fossil fuel-based heating with electric heating. 

  • Federal Energy and Manufacturing Workforce Training Programs

    The National Science Foundation, Department of Labor and Department of Energy fund programs supporting energy and manufacturing-related workforce training opportunities. 

  • Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI)

    The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), a Manufacturing USA Institute, is a partnership of industry, academic and governmental organizations joining forces to benefit the nation’s energy and economic security. This is accomplished by bringing low-cost, energy-efficient advanced composites to commercial readiness through the collaborative and innovative work of our members. Researchers at IACMI are working to develop lower-cost, higher-speed, and more efficient manufacturing and recycling processes for advanced composite materials. 

  • Manufacturing USA

    Manufacturing USA was created in 2014 to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing by connecting people, ideas, and technology. Manufacturing USA institutes convene business competitors, academic institutions, and other stakeholders to test applications of new technology, create new products, reduce cost and risk, and enable the manufacturing workforce with the skills of the future. Key initiatives include future manufacturing supply chains, , manufacturing workforce development, advanced manufacturing technology leadership, COVID-19 manufacturing recovery, and clean energy manufacturing.

  • Materials Genome Initiative

    The Materials Genome Initiative is a federal multi-agency initiative for discovering, manufacturing, and deploying advanced materials twice as fast and at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional methods. The initiative creates policy, resources, and infrastructure to support U.S. institutions in the adoption of methods for accelerating materials development. 

  • National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI)

    The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) is an interagency initiative made up of public-private partnerships devoted to manufacturing excellence. Under the NNMI, each institute will bring together innovative manufacturers, university engineering schools, community colleges, federal agencies, non-profits, and regional and state organizations to invest in unique, but industrially relevant, manufacturing technologies with broad applications. Federal NNMI partners include the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, and Commerce, as well as NASA and the National Science Foundation. 

  • Nuclear Energy Enabling Technologies Crosscutting Technology Development

    The Crosscutting Technology Development program awards funding to U.S. industry, U.S. universities, and national laboratories to develop innovative solutions to crosscutting nuclear energy technology challenges. One area of research and development (R&D) emphasis is Advanced Methods for Manufacturing, which conducts R&D to accelerate innovations that reduce the cost and schedule of constructing new nuclear plants, and to make fabrication of nuclear power plant components faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

  • PowerAmerica

    PowerAmerica, a Manufacturina USA Institute, connects many of the world’s leading wide bandgap  semiconductor manufacturers and end-users with experts from research universities and government labs. PowerAmerica is a member-driven consortium of industry, academia, and national labs — managed by North Carolina State University and headquartered on its Centennial Campus — accelerating the commercialization of energy-efficient silicon carbide and gallium nitride power semiconductor chips and electronics.

  • Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Institute

    The Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Institute, a Manufacturing USA Institute, focuses on breakthrough technologies to dramatically improve the energy efficiency of novel manufacturing processes and enable the development of modular processes. RAPID leverages approaches to modular chemical process intensification  — such as combining multiple process steps such as mixing, reaction, and separation into a single more complex and intensified process — with the goal of improving productivity and efficiency, cutting operating costs, and reducing waste.

  • Research & Development Consortia

    Research and Development (R&D) consortia bring together manufacturers, small and medium businesses, researchers, and state and local governments to facilitate the creation of innovation ecosystems in high-priority technology areas. The technology areas that R&D consortia specialize in are essential to clean energy manufacturing, industrial efficiency and decarbonization.

  • Solid-State Lighting

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solid-State Lighting (SSL) Program fosters U.S. scientific capabilities, leverages private funds, provides internationally trusted information, and drives innovation to create efficient and flexible lighting products that support health, productivity, and well-being. the Solid-State Lighting Program has acted as a catalyst, bringing together researchers, industry, universities, standards organizations, utilities, energy efficiency programs, building owners, lighting designers, and specifiers to drive SSL technology advances. 

  • Technology-to-Market

    Technology-to-market  activities are designed to accelerate innovative research and development  concepts to become commercially viable and available products. These activities then dovetail with market transformation efforts. Both T2M and market transformation efforts work to increase market feedback and improve the effectiveness of the Building Technologies Office’s investments. 

  • Windows and Envelope

    Activities in windows and building envelope focus on technologies such as highly insulating materials and systems, and methodologies and analysis tools for measurement and validation of building envelope performance, as well as market-enabling efforts such as the creation of an organization responsible for rating, certifying, and labeling fenestration attachment products to better inform consumers.