The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to provide up to $500 million in funding to expand domestic processing, recycling and manufacturing capacity for critical minerals and battery materials
The funding initiative, led by the DOE’s Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation (CMEI), is aimed at supporting both demonstration and commercial-scale facilities that process and recycle key materials used in batteries and energy technologies
The program targets strategic minerals including lithium, graphite, nickel, copper and aluminum, as well as materials recovered from used battery systems