The Dept. of Energy grant that MTM applied for is as follows:
Advancing Technology Development for Securing a Domestic Supply of Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM)
On September 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), in collaboration with DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), announced up to $19.5 million in federal funding to advance technologies that will help reduce costs for recovering critical minerals and materials from domestic secondary and unconventional sources. The projects will help restore the United States as a world leader in the extraction, separation, and refining of these materials—needed to produce solar panels, wind turbines, and other clean energy technologies, as well as components for defense systems and other electronics—while reducing our reliance on foreign supply chains and helping to advance the Biden-Harris administration’s historic climate agenda.
Funding DOE expects to make up to 10 awards between $500,000 and $2.5 million each with a minimum of a 20% cost-sharing from the awardees.
FOA 2956 Funding Table
Key Dates
NOI Issue Date: 08/29/2024
FOA Issue Date: 9/25/2024
Submission Deadline for Full Applications: 11/26/2024 at 5:00 PM ET
Expected Date for Selection Notifications: May 2025
Based on this we could expect to hear any day now, assuming there are no delays.
I think they may have applied for other grants as well. For example, DoD.
(20min delay)