Battery Materials Processing & Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Programs

Battery Materials Processing & Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Grant Programs

This program funds projects which will develop domestic facilities toward battery materials processing, manufacturing, and recycling. The goals of this program are to strengthen critical domestic manufacturing and supply chains while increasing critical minerals production by up to 15% by 2030 for key critical materials used in batteries and other applications.

Details

• Agency: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Administrator: Direct federal
• Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
• Status: Active: Accepting applications

Eligible Uses

This program invests in projects that process key critical materials from raw feedstocks prioritizing lithium, nickel and cobalt; recover critical materials from end-of-life batteries and manufacturing scrap, prioritizing black mass production and recovery of graphite, nickel and cobalt; as well as rare earth materials (if included in the recycled battery chemistry); and manufacture components needed for advanced batteries, prioritizing synthetic graphite, cathode active materials and specialty metals (copper, aluminum, lithium).