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Energy Storage Pilot Demonstrations

Federal funding opportunity DE-FOA-0003399 from Headquarters (Department of Energy).

Posted
September 6, 2024
Closed
February 13, 2025
Award ceiling
$20,000,000
Award floor
$5,000,000
Program funding
$100,000,000
Expected awards
0
Cost sharing
No
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Assistance listing
81.255
Category
Energy
Archives
March 15, 2025

Program funding history

Awards made under Assistance Listing 81.255 across FY2025–FY2027, from public federal spending records.

FY2025 obligated
$6.2B
FY2026 obligated
−$654.7M
FY2027 (to date) obligated
$0
Awards in window
96

A negative year is a net de-obligation: downward adjustments to earlier awards exceeded new obligations in that year.

Top recipients: Cleveland-cliffs Steel Corporation, National Cement Company of California, Inc., Century Aluminum Co, Heidelberg Materials Us Inc, Eastman Chemical Company

Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed October 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →

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Synopsis

Energy Storage Pilot Demonstrations This program will fund technology demonstrations for energy storage solutions at the pilot-scale. The program will focus on non-lithium technologies, long-duration (10+ hour discharge) systems, and stationary storage applications. This program seeks to: -Advance a diverse set of non-lithium energy storage technologies towards commercial viability and utility-scale deployment. -Generate high-quality operational datasets and techno-economic models. -Build investor, utility, and other end user confidence in the real performance and adoptability of the proposed solutions.

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