Promoting Domestic and International Consensus on Clean Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Technologies | DE FOA 0003355

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The Department of Energy (DOE), through its Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), is signaling a planned funding opportunity focused less on building hardware and more on building shared understanding, coordination, and practical alignment around "clean fossil energy" and carbon management. The overall aim is to help the United States and international partners move toward net-zero emissions while recognizing that fossil fuels and other major greenhouse-gas sources still play a large role in the current economy, especially in hard-to-decarbonize power and industrial sectors. The opportunity is framed around FECM's mission to reduce the environmental impacts of fossil fuels and accelerate solutions such as carbon capture, carbon storage, carbon dioxide removal (CDR), hydrogen with carbon management, methane emissions reduction, and critical minerals production, while also emphasizing community impacts, environmental justice, and a fair economic transition.

A key theme is consensus-building and capacity-building: DOE wants to improve how decision makers, stakeholders, and the public understand carbon management and related technologies, and to help align domestic and international conversations around what works, what is credible, what barriers exist, and how policies and markets affect deployment. Rather than funding a single research project, the work described looks like an organized set of expert engagements, independent analysis products, and recurring events that can inform policy and investment decisions. The program explicitly notes the importance of outreach and education so that stakeholders can make more informed choices about energy and climate topics, and it anticipates partnering with organizations that can convene recognized experts and communicate clearly to diverse audiences.

The notice lays out two main program areas. Program Area 1 focuses on Carbon Management Technologies. Activities here revolve around three "areas of interest." First is consultation, analysis, and cooperation: engaging recognized carbon management and fossil energy experts to advise decision makers (including state and local officials), stakeholders, nonprofits, universities, NGOs, and the public. This includes producing studies, reports, and other analysis intended to be independent and unbiased, then using those products in seminars, conferences, and workshops and distributing them domestically and internationally. Second is outreach: creating accessible, audience-tailored materials such as fact sheets, technical papers, flyers, briefing packages, displays, and videos, and building or expanding a global outreach database populated with information gathered from FECM-related activities to better target education and engagement. Third is conference and workshop support: organizing and running technical workshops, seminars, and other events in the U.S. on focused topics like barriers to CDR deployment or the impacts of new or proposed policies and laws on carbon management, and supporting international conferences that enable information exchange and highlight projects and progress in the U.S. and globally. This area also includes identifying high-level speakers across government and industry and supporting U.S. participation in international carbon management efforts tied to bodies like the World Energy Council (WEC), the International Energy Agency (IEA), and related ministerial forums.

Program Area 2 expands the scope beyond carbon management into broader resource sustainability topics managed by FECM's Office of Resource Sustainability (ORS). This part addresses oil, natural gas, methane hydrates, hydrogen, and critical minerals, with an emphasis on reducing environmental impacts across the fossil fuel supply chain and supporting a just transition. The described interests include consultation and policy-relevant analysis for global energy and minerals issues (for government and private sector decision makers, industry representatives, NGOs, and the broader public), along with market analyses, technical studies, and stakeholder workshops. Topics include methane and greenhouse-gas management, natural gas markets and trade, petrochemicals, hydrogen production and transportation, critical minerals supply chains, and the local/community impacts of energy projects. ORS also highlights structured support for advisory or working groups, specifically referencing the Greenhouse Gas Supply Chain Emissions Measurement, Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MMRV) Framework. The work here can include practical coordination tasks like scheduling meetings, tracking participation, drafting and distributing notes, documenting recommendations and action items, developing briefing slides, and maintaining online collaboration portals to keep international and multi-stakeholder groups aligned.

Program Area 2 also includes bilateral and regional initiatives, where the awardee(s) may help organize and run meetings, conferences, workshops, and task-force style events with international partners (foreign governments, companies, universities, and NGOs). The goal is to exchange information on technologies and best practices for lower-emission oil and gas systems, methane hydrates, hydrogen, and critical minerals. Examples given include the U.S.-India Low Emission Gas Task Force under the Strategic Clean Energy Partnership, the Mozambique Initiative, and continued work connected to the MMRV Framework. Across these efforts, DOE expects public-facing summaries or other dissemination, often via web posting, when appropriate.

From a funding and administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number DE-FOA-0003355) that would use cooperative agreements, meaning DOE expects substantial involvement during the project rather than a hands-off grant. The listing shows eligible applicants as "Unrestricted," implying a wide range of organizations could apply (for example, nonprofits, universities, and other entities capable of convening experts, producing analysis, and running events). The award ceiling is listed as $10,000,000, with an expectation of 2 awards. The original closing date shown is 2024-09-30, but the text also makes clear this is connected to a Notice of Intent (NOI) and that DOE may issue a full Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) later, may issue a materially different FOA than described, or may choose not to issue a FOA at all. The notice also states DOE is not accepting questions at this time and would provide instructions in a future FOA if issued.

In practical terms, the opportunity is aimed at organizations that can function as trusted conveners and communicators: groups that can bring credible technical experts to the table, produce clear and defensible analysis, design outreach products that are understandable to non-specialists, and run high-quality domestic and international workshops and conferences. The desired outcome is improved alignment and informed decision-making around carbon capture, storage, CDR, methane management, hydrogen with carbon management, and related fossil-energy transition issues, with attention to sustainability, community impacts, and the broader net-zero pathway.

• The Headquarters in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Promoting Domestic and International Consensus on Clean Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Technologies" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.089.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-04-03.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-09-30. (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 $10,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted.

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