DOE FY2020 Critical Materials FOA (DE-FOA-0002322)

DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy funding opportunity 'FY2020 AMO Critical Materials FOA: Next-Generation Technologies and Field Validation' (DE-FOA-0002322), issued May 14, 2020 with applications through EERE Exchange and full applications due August 19, 2020. On January 20, 2021 DOE announced more than $50 million for 15 selected projects across two topic areas (field validation and demonstration; next-generation extraction, separation, and processing). Selections included General Atomics, whose consortium with Rare Element Resources was selected for a potential $21.9 million award for a rare earth separation and processing demonstration plant; that award was finalized through a cooperative agreement dated October 1, 2021 and is recorded as instrument rare-element-doe-2021.

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