Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling
Helps Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling for Large-scale domestic critical materials processing.
Battery Materials Processing and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling is a DOE program under the Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation that backs domestic capacity for battery supply chains. It is active between cycles in 2026 and focuses on lithium, graphite, nickel, copper, aluminum, and related battery materials. The instrument is a cooperative agreement. Round 3, announced in March 2026, made up to $500 million available across raw-feedstock processing, critical-materials recycling, and battery-materials and component manufacturing. Eligibility is broad for U.S.-based for-profit firms, nonprofits, universities, and research organizations, but not individuals. The round closed with a March 27, 2026 letter of intent deadline and an April 24, 2026 full-application deadline, and a Round 4 call is still expected. The program favors applicants that can connect domestic processing capacity to a real manufacturing or recycling bottleneck. Proposals work best when the team can show a credible scale-up path, a domestic supply-chain role, and a clear reason why the project belongs in one of the three focus areas. Since the next round has not yet been announced, companies and consortia are mainly in a watch-and-prepare posture rather than an active submission window.
No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Biennial.