Opportunity Information: Apply for DE FOA 0003568
The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Golden Field Office, is requesting public input for its upcoming 2026 Energy Critical Materials Assessment under Request for Information (RFI) DE-FOA-0003568. This is not a traditional grant competition with funding attached. Instead, it is a discretionary, information-gathering process where DOE is collecting comments, data, and perspectives from stakeholders to shape how the federal government evaluates which materials are most important and most vulnerable within energy-related supply chains. The central purpose is to improve the accuracy and usefulness of the 2026 Assessment by incorporating current market intelligence, real-world supply chain constraints, and stakeholder feedback on both the content and the methodology.
The RFI is broad in scope and covers several major topic areas. DOE is seeking input on which energy technologies should be emphasized in the assessment, which materials should be considered critical to those technologies, and how supply chains for those materials actually function in practice. It also invites information on market dynamics such as production capacity, demand outlooks, price volatility, substitution possibilities, recycling potential, and geopolitical or trade-related risks. In addition, DOE is explicitly looking for stakeholder views on challenges faced by domestic industry, which can include barriers to developing U.S.-based mining, processing, refining, manufacturing, and recycling, as well as workforce, permitting, financing, infrastructure, environmental, and community considerations that affect the ability to scale supply chains inside the United States.
A key element of the request is feedback on methodology. DOE wants comments on how it should evaluate criticality and risk, what data sources and assumptions should be used, and how to handle uncertainties and rapidly changing conditions. The RFI also seeks input on how DOE should treat and align its own critical materials list with the Department of the Interior (DOI) critical minerals list, including suggestions for additions, removals, definitions, or categorization approaches. Stakeholders are also invited to raise other issues that may not fit neatly into the listed categories but are still relevant to the Energy Critical Materials Assessment.
Eligibility to respond is unrestricted, meaning anyone can submit comments, including companies, industry associations, universities, national laboratories, state and local governments, tribes, non-profits, investors, and individual members of the public with relevant expertise or evidence. The opportunity is listed under CFDA 81.086 (energy-related federal assistance category), but the posting reflects that there is no funding expected from this action: the award ceiling is listed as 1 and expected awards are 0, reinforcing that the goal is information collection rather than awarding grants or contracts.
The RFI was created on 2025-06-25 and the deadline for submissions is 2025-07-25. The practical takeaway is that DOE is building the evidentiary foundation for a major federal assessment that can influence policy direction, research priorities, industrial strategy, and potentially later funding and program decisions connected to critical materials and energy supply chain resilience. Stakeholders who want to shape how DOE defines, evaluates, and prioritizes energy critical materials in 2026 have a clear window to provide data-backed comments before the closing date.Apply for DE FOA 0003568
- The Golden Field Office in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Request for Information: Energy Critical Materials Assessment" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.086.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-06-25.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-25. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1.00 in funding.
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.
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